Fabia Mantwill

Fabia Mantwill (* 1993 in Berlin ) is a German jazz musician ( saxophone , vocals , composition ).

Live and act

Mantwill, who grew up in Chemnitz, began making music as a toddler and attended the Chemnitz primary school for creativity. She learned the guitar, flute and piano before she discovered the tenor saxophone . At the age of twelve she founded the "Jazzbanausen" (with which she also appeared at the International Dixieland Festival Dresden ) and at the age of 14 played with Andrej Hermlin in the Swing Dance Orchestra . Since 2011 she has been studying for a bachelor's degree at the Berlin Jazz Institute and at the Sibelius Academy , before completing her master’s degree at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater in 2019 with Christian Elsässer , Marcio Doctor and Ruta Paidere . During her studies she was a member of the Brandenburg State Youth Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Jiggs Whigham . In 2016 she was awarded the Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead Residency ; In 2017 she took part in the International Workshop for Jazz and Creative Music at the Banff Center in Canada under the direction of Vijay Iyer and Tyshawn Sorey .

In 2017 Mantwill founded her Fabia Mantwill Orchestra , with which she gave concerts in Berlin and Hamburg. Mantwill was selected by Vince Mendoza as arranger and composer in 2018 to perform for the Metropole Orkest feat. Writing Becca Stevens . With her quintet, which initially included Greg Cohen , guitarist Rob Luft, drummer Ludwig Wandinger and cellist Emily Wittbrodt, she appeared at Elbjazz and A-Trane , and later also in Düsseldorf. In November 2018, the world premiere of her orchestral work Sasa ndio Sasa took place in the Elbphilharmonie , where she appeared as a composer, conductor and soloist. With Lauren Baba, Mareike Wiening , Noa Fort, Eunhye Jeong and Lieke van der Voort, she forms the formation red Exit . She introduced herself at JazzBaltica 2020 with Keno Harriehausen , Eva Kruse , Eva Klesse and Nils Landgren . She also played at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival and toured China, India, Brazil, West Africa, North America and Europe.

Mantwill can also be heard on albums by Martin Gordon , Yello and the sampler Planet 9 .

Web links

• Web presence
• Fabia Mantwill at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait (HfMT)
2. ↑ Fabia Mantwill plays swing and old-time (Der Altglienicker May / 2016)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Encounters (Master's final concert 2019)
4. ↑ Brief portrait (Women in Jazz)
5. ↑ New Friends (JazzBaltica)