Erica von Kleist

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Erica von Kleist (born March 9, 1982 in Connecticut ) is an American jazz musician ( alto saxophone , flutes , also piano, composition ) and comes from the old noble Kleist family .

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Von Kleist took piano lessons at the age of five. When she was nine years old and had heard the music from the movie The Little Mermaid , she became interested in the flute. She attended Hall High School in West Hartford , CT, known for its effective jazz program, and was part of the school jazz band when they won the Essentially Ellington competition at Jazz at Lincoln Center .

Von Kleist first studied at the Manhattan School of Music in order to complete her Bachelor's degree at the Juilliard School of Music in 2004. She toured with the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra conducted by Arturo O'Farrill and was involved in two of his Grammy Awards nominated albums. She has worked with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Jazz Center Orchestra , Darcy James Argues Secret Society , Bebo Valdés , Cachao , Celia Cruz , Kristin Chenoweth and Seth MacFarlane . In 2005 she released her debut album Project E (2005), followed by No Exceptions (2010) and Alpine Clarity (2014). With Eric Michael Krop, she presented the duo album Summertime (2015). She can also be heard on albums by Rufus Reid , the Diva Jazz Orchestra , Sean Jones , Chris Potter , Carl Maraghi and Volker Goetze.

In 2012, she left New York City and moved to Montana , where she worked as an interpreter and teacher, and founded the Montana Artist Collective and Groovetrail . She wrote the textbook A Cool Approach to Jazz Theory.

Von Kleist was mentioned several times in Down Beat's annual reader and critic polls and in 2015 she was the “Rising Star” in the magazine's critics poll as a flautist; she has received two Young Jazz Composer Awards from ASCAP and the Martin E. Segal Award .

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  1. ↑ a b c Stefanie Thompson: Erica von Kleist reflects on her creative adventures . In: Daily Inter Lake . November 9, 2015. Retrieved August 19, 2018.
  2. ↑ Ben Ratliff: Jazz Review: School Bands Play Up The Value of Surprise (en) . In: The New York Times , May 20, 2000. Retrieved August 17, 2018. 
  3. ↑ Review of JazzTimes
personal data
SURNAME Kleist, Erica von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (alto saxophone, flutes, also piano, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Connecticut