Dagmar Bunde
Dagmar Bunde (* 1967 in Cologne ) is a German jazz singer and composer .
Live and act
Dagmar Bunde received piano, violin and drum lessons in her childhood and regularly played music with her family. At 16, she started singing in amateur and semi-professional bands.
She has been a professional musician since 1990. At that time the singer also founded the Dagmar Bunde Quartet, which today includes the musicians Thomas Rückert (piano), Martin Gjakonovski (double bass) and Jonas Burgwinkel (drums).
Dagmar Bunde completed her studies to become a qualified singer as well as a state-certified music school teacher and independent music teacher - both with Norbert Gottschalk - at the Cologne University of Music in the 1990s. She completed her artistic maturity examination with distinction. Bunde took additional lessons and workshops with Jay Clayton , Norma Winstone , Greetje Kauffeld , Janice Lakers, Klesie Kelly-Moog and Regina Hömberg, among others . In the early 1990s she was also a member of the Federal Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Peter Herbolzheimer .
As a soloist, Dagmar Bunde has worked with various radio orchestras as well as with artists from different musical fields, including Jiggs Whigham , Bill Motzing , Tony Lakatos , Wolfgang Sauer , Heinz Eckert and Kofi Missah. Bunde also accompanied the interpreters Jennifer Rush and Precious Wilson chorally .
Bunde performed at the Jazz Yatra Festival in India, the Idstein Jazz Festival, the Wiehl Jazz Days as well as the Federal Press Ball and the Opera Ball .
Today, Dagmar Bunde concentrates exclusively on her own projects (in addition to the Dagmar Bunde Quartet, a duo with guitarist Rolf Marx and a trio with pianist Eckhard Radmacher and piccolo bassist Wilhelm Geschwind) and her work as a singing teacher on a private and university level. She lives in Odenthal near Cologne.
Prizes and awards
- 31st German Rock & Pop Prize 2013: Best Jazz-Rock-Singer, Best Jazz-Rock-Band (Dagmar Bunde Quartet),
Best Jazz Rock Album and Best English Language CD Album of the Year (both My Jazz).
Discography
Studio albums
- My Jazz (2010, self-distribution)
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bunde, Dagmar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz singer and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |