Jonas Schoen

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Jonas Schoen (born October 10, 1969 in Hamburg ) is a German jazz musician ( saxophonist , composer ). He works as a professor for composition and saxophone at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media .

Live and act

Schoen learned violin and piano as a child; at the age of 14 he began to play the saxophone. He gained his first band experience in school bands and as an exchange student in the USA, where he was active in various marching bands and jazz bands . From the age of 16 he played in jazz clubs in Hamburg. He studied at the Hamburg University of Music and Performing Arts with Herb Geller and Dieter Glawischnig . After completing his studies, he founded the Jonas Schoen Sextet and moved to Berlin in 2000. In 2003 he became a professor at the Hanover University of Music and Theater. In his quartet he plays with Heinz Lichius , Buggy Braune and Pepe Berns ). The quartet released four albums on its own label Schoener Hören Music . In 2004 he began to learn bandoneón , which he has since played on the album Travesía and in the band of the same name (Jonas Schoen Quartet with Sandra Hempel (guitar) and Friedrich Paravicini (cello).

Schoen wrote film scores and worked as a guest conductor with the hr big band and the NDR big band . He also directed the Berlin Youth Jazz Orchestra. He is a member of the orchestras of the theater productions under the direction of Robert Wilson at the Berliner Ensemble , as well as in performances of Leonce and Lena (music by Herbert Grönemeyer ) and the Threepenny Opera . As an accompanying musician, Schoen also took part in recordings of Marc Muellbauer's Kaleidoscope , Sarah Kaiser , Ulita Knaus , Uli Kringler , Lonnie Liston Smith ( Transformation ) and the Weather Girls ( Putting On The Hits ).

Awards

  • Best Jazz Soloist Award , Strawberry Festival, Washington DC 1984
  • Hausmann Music Competition HfMdK Hamburg, 1991 and 1992
  • Finalist European Jazz Competition 1992, 1993, 1997
  • Big band composition competition LMR Berlin and GEMA Foundation 1998
  • CD neindo nominated for the list for the German Record Critics' Prize 2000
  • Composition grant from the Berlin Senate Administration for Science, Research and Culture 2001

Discographic notes

  • Jonas Schoen / Steve Swallow: "Agnostic Chant Book" (2012)
  • Jonas Schoen / hr-Bigband: "Music for Bigband vol.1" (2008)
  • "Travesía - tango film score ... for jazz band" (2007)
  • "Five and Fortunes" (2004)
  • "My Middle Name" (2002)
  • Schumann / Schoen / Doctor: "To this Day"
  • "Neindo" (1999)
  • "Mixed Up" (1997)
  • Somewhere in Between "(1992)

Film music

  • 1994: She dances with her stomach - short film by Miko Zeuschner (Filmbüro Hamburg)
  • 1996: Christmas every day - short film by Miko Zeuschner (Filmbüro Hamburg) with Hugo Diaz, bandoneon
  • 1999: Wolffs Revier (episode: Blood Brothers) (SAT.1)
  • 1999: crime scene - fear of death
  • Arranger and soloist for the film music for Bibi Blocksberg first and second part

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personal data
SURNAME Nice, Jonas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (saxophonist, composer) and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg