Ilona Haberkamp

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Ilona Haberkamp (* 27. September 1957 in Dortmund as Ilona Henz ) is a German jazz musician (alto and soprano saxophone).

Live and act

Haberkamp studied musicology and Slavic studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum, as well as music at the Dortmund University of Music (with Glen Buschmann ), and then passed her artistic maturity examination at the Aachen University of Music . From 1980 to 1984 she was a member of the JugendJazzOrchester NRW , with which she also toured internationally. In addition, she led her own quartet with Frank Wunsch , Ingmar Heller and Matthias Rumpf . In 1984 she was one of the founders of the women's big band "Reichlich Female", which existed until 1989. She also worked as a member of the saxophone quartet "Multi colore", with whom she toured in China, Belarus and Europe. Then she worked as a theater musician at theaters in Dortmund, Bochum, Essen and Wiesbaden. With the pianist Harald Köster she formed the jazz duo "Allusion"; At times she was a member of the United Women's Orchestra . She leads the Paula Dezz Quartet , which is dedicated to Paul Desmond's music, and is a saxophonist in the Miss Jones Orchestra. She also worked with Lydie Auvray and Robert Kreis .

From 2009 to 2011 she studied musicology at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Master of Arts), in 2013 she published her tribute to Jutta Hipp, Cool Is Hipp IS Cool, performed with the Ilona Haberkamp Quartet in 2013 at the Berlin Jazz Days together with Ack van Rooyen and Silvia Droste . In 2015 she wrote the biography about the German jazz pianist Jutta Hipp and published it together with Gerhard Evertz and the Be! Jazz Record Label an artistic complete edition "The Art and Life of Jutta Hipp". She also released The New Coolnezz Lost into the Blue with the Ilona Haberkamp Quartet and Ack van Rooyen in 2017 on Laika Records. She is musical director of the Stone Street Big Band and soprano saxophonist of the Lilith Saxophone Quartet.

The pianist Clara Haberkamp is her daughter.

Discography

Fonts

  • Ilona Haberkamp: Hipp Style or Adaption, Gender and Identity. In: Darmstädter Contributions to Jazz Research Vol. 14 (2016), pp. 99–124
  • Ilona Haberkamp: Art and Life of Jutta Hipp . Be! Jazz Records, Bruchsal 2015

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Women in Jazz: Die Ton-Angeberinnen , Der Spiegel November 9, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Haberkamp, ​​Ilona
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henz, Ilona (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (alto and soprano saxophone)
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund