Dora Osterloh

Dora Osterloh (* around 1986) is a German jazz musician (vocals, composition).

Live and act

Osterloh grew up in a musical family in Cologne; her father is the trumpeter Klaus Osterloh . In her childhood she learned the violin and piano before she discovered singing as a means of expression. After graduating from high school, she went on a journey through New Zealand and then took part in the jazz preparatory course with André Nendza in Cologne . Between 2008 and 2014 she studied jazz singing in Maastricht , then with Celine Rudolph in Dresden .

Osterloh was part of the experimental vocal duo Eos Duett for several years . In 2012 she founded the quintet Kite , with which she released two albums. She also sings in Ensemble O. with the singers Friederike Merz , Zola Mennenöh and Laura Winkler . In the Duo Tæbieeri she works with electronics technician Gea Brown. Concert tours have taken her to Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and the Czech Republic.

Discographic notes

• Kite (2012)
• Kite I Take the Money and You Run for Your Life ( Unit Records 2017, with Mark Weschenfelder , Laurenz Karsten, Phillip Oertel, Leon Griese)
• Max Andrzejewskis Hütte and the Homegrown Organic Gospel Choir ( WhyPlayJazz 2017)

Web links

• Web presence
• Dora Osterloh at Discogs (English)