Hannah Köpf
Hannah Köpf (* January 1980 ) is a German songwriter who uses the jazz idiom .
Live and act
Köpf initially had classical piano training and singing lessons; she sang in the school band and came to songwriting through her first attempts at guitar. First she completed a teaching degree in music and English at the Cologne University of Music , and then from 2001 to 2005 she studied jazz singing at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with a minor in piano. Her teachers were Lydia van Dam , Anette von Eichel , Bobby McFerrin , Dianne Reeves and Richard Bona . She has been on tour with numerous ensembles and bands in the fields of jazz and pop, both as a background singer and as a soloist. In 2007 she founded her own band, with which she released her debut album in 2010. Two more albums with their own (English) songs between folk and jazz followed.
In addition to her work as a singer, she worked as a singing teacher at the JazzHausSchule Cologne and since autumn 2013 she has been teaching pop singing at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences .
Prizes and awards
In 2009, the Hannah Köpf Band took 2nd place at the “Convento Junior Jazz Prize NRW” and was a finalist in the “Future Sounds Competition” at the Leverkusen Jazz Days . In 2010 she was one of the finalists of the young talent jazz prize of the Burghausen Jazz Festival .
Discographic notes
- Stories Untold ( Double Moon Records 2010, with Frederik Köster , Klaus Heidenreich , Anne-Christine Heinrich , Holger Werner , Benjamin Schaefer , Jakob Kühnemann , Tim Dudek and others)
- Flying Free ( GLM Music 2012, with Denis Gäbel , Holger Werner, Benjamin Schaefer, Tobias Hoffmann , Jakob Kühnemann, Tim Dudek and others)
- Lonely Dancer (GLM Music 2014)
- Cinnamon (GLM Music 2019, with Denis Gäbel, Sebastian Sternal , Hanno Busch , Nathan Bontrager, Tim Dudek)
Web links
- Web presence
- Poetry in voice (portrait)
- Hannah Kopf at Discogs (English)
- Hannah Köpf at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry Open Jazzhausschule ( Memento from November 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Head, Hannah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German songwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1980 |