Katharina Thomsen
Katharina "Tini" Thomsen (born November 28, 1981 in Hamburg ) is a German jazz musician ( baritone saxophone , bass clarinet , arrangement , composition).
Live and act
Thomsen, who grew up in a family of musicians in Wellingsbüttel , learned the piano at the age of five. At the age of 13, she was enthusiastic about the film “ Some Like It Hot ”, which brought her to play the saxophone. At the age of 15 she switched from the tenor saxophone to the baritone saxophone, which she also played in the big band of the Peter Petersen Comprehensive School. At the age of 18 she was accepted into the Landesjugendjazzorchester Hamburg and soon also into the Nils Gessinger Band and the Bundesjazzorchester under the direction of Peter Herbolzheimer .
After starting her studies with Fiete Felsch at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg , she switched to the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2004 , where she completed her master’s degree cum laude in 2011 after her Bachelor’s degree (2008) .
Thomsen has been working as a freelance musician, arranger and composer since 2011. In 2012 she released her debut album Thomsen in Wonderland with the string quartet Quinetique , which was followed by the rockier MaxSax in 2014 and The Long Ride in 2017 . The album “Shift” (2019, with Nigel Hitchcock , Tom Trapp, Mark Haanstra , Joost Kroon) was recognized by NDR as “Jazz Album of the Week”, on which “the sophisticated, well-designed strength of a band that has grown together” through the “forces of nature “Which is powered by five musicians.
She also accompanied Dr. John performing at the North Sea Jazz Festival and the Montreux Jazz Festival . She also worked with the Metropole Orkest , the Brussels Jazz Orchestra , the hr-Bigband , the David Kweksilber Bigband, the Amsterdam Jazz Orchestra, Malte Schiller's "Red Balloon" or Wil Saldens Glenn Miller Orchestra and Konrad Koselleck , but also with Guus Meeuwis , Ellen ten Damme , Corrie van Binsbergen , Alain Clark , Incognito or The Temptations . She can also be heard on albums by Othella Dallas , the Forkolor Saxophone Quartet and Ed Partyka . In 2015 she toured with the reunion of the saxophone quartet Itchy Fingers . She is married to the saxophonist Nigel Hitchcock .
Prizes and awards
In 2008 Thomsen took part in the Metropole Orchestra Arrangers / Composers Workshop with Vince Mendoza . In the following years she received prizes at the New Dutch Arrangers Contest (2009) and at the composition competition of Bujazzo (2010). In 2011 she was the third winner of the NDR Bigband's arrangement competition . In 2015 she was awarded the IB.SH Jazz Award from JazzBaltica . In 2016 she received the German Music Author Award in the Jazz / Cross-Over category.
Web links
- Web presence
- Unheard of: Tini Thomsen plays brilliant jazz on her brilliantly large saxophone , Die Zeit , July 2nd, 2015
- portrait
- Katharina Thomsen at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ NDR: Jazz album of the week
- ↑ Always apply pressure. In: State newspaper for the Lüneburg Heath . May 28, 2018, accessed June 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Portrait (NDR)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thomsen, Katharina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thomsen, Tini (nickname); Hitchcock, Katharina (married) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |