Johanna Summer
Johanna Summer (* 1995 as Johanna Summerer in Plauen ) is a German jazz musician ( piano , composition ).
Live and act
Summer began taking classical piano lessons at the age of seven. She first appeared at school concerts at the Plauen Lessing Grammar School or in the band Futur , a small line-up in the children's big band at the Vogtland Conservatory. She has won several prizes at the national competition " Jugend musiziert " and " Jugend jazzt ". Since 2013 she has been studying jazz piano at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden .
With the trio founded in early 2016 (with Tobias Fröhlich, bass, and Jan-Einar Groh, drums), Summer quickly developed his own, clearly structured sound. Her debut album Juvenile was released on recordJet in December 2017 . Between 2018 and 2020 she was part of the Federal Jazz Orchestra , in which she also appeared with Randy Brecker . In the program When Pop Meets Jazz she appears together with singer Atrin Madani. In 2020, ACT released her solo album Schumann Kaleidoscope .
Summer and her trio were among the finalists at the Biberach Jazz Prize 2018; in the same year she won the “Young Munich Jazz Prize”.
Web links
- Web presence
- Big appearance in front of a familiar audience
- Improvisation is everything (FAZ)
- From the innermost to the extreme (ZEIT)
Individual evidence
- ↑ meeting (jazz-fun.de)
- ↑ Ralf Dombrowski : A small sensation. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 11, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Summer, Johanna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Summerer, Johanna (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician (piano, composition) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1995 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plauen |