Katrin Scherer
Katrin Scherer (* 1977 in Illingen (Saar) ) is a German jazz musician.
Musical education
Scherer received her first music lessons in the flute at the age of eleven. Later she changed instruments and learned the alto and baritone saxophone. From 1997 to 1998 she was a member of the Saarland Youth Jazz Orchestra and played in BuJazzO in 1998 and 1999 (Southeastern Europe tour 1999, album BuJazzO on tour ). From 1998 to 2003 she studied jazz at the Folkwang University of Music, Theater, Dance, Design and Science in Essen. There she studied with Hugo Read and the saxophonist and band leader Wollie Kaiser . In 2003 she was a member of the European Youth Jazz Orchestra "swinging europe", with whom she toured Denmark, Germany and Italy (album live in italy ).
She received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service , which she spent in 2003/2004 in New York City at Queens College . There she studied with Antonio Hart (saxophone) and Michael Mossman (composition).
Musical creation
Together with the musicians Miriam Frank (saxophone, flute, bass clarinet) and Sven Decker , she founded her first band "UFO" (Unidentified Flying Orchestra) in 2005. In the same year she composed the music for the text Hymnen to the Night of the Poet as part of a project “Novalis” . In 2007 she founded her own jazz label "Green Deer Music". In the same year she received an invitation to the "Interzone Jazz Festival" in Novi Sad / Serbia . There she performed with her newly formed band “Without four played three”. In 2008 an invitation to the “Trytone Festival” in Amsterdam followed . From 2008 she worked as a theater musician at Theater Oberhausen . Since 2012 she has been teaching at the Folkwang University of the Arts .
Further musical activities of Katrin Scherer were Christof Thewes ' Little Bigband (2002–2005), Ingo Marmulla Ensemble West, Mel Maroon and the swinging mallets, Philipp Schug's grandmother Heinz and Jan Klares “the dorf”.
Prizes and awards
In 2002, Katrin Scherer and the Spielplatz trio won the Folkwang Prize. In 2002 and 2004 she won the nationwide Jazz Festival Leipzig and in 2005 and 2006 the jazzwerkruhr sponsorship award . In 2009 Scherer received the sponsorship award from the State Music Council of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Discographic notes
- Without 4 played three debuts ( JazzHausMusik 2005, with Bernd Oezsevim )
- Delicatessen Decker (Green Deer, 2007)
- UFO unidentified flying orchestra (Green Deer, 2008, with John-Dennis Renken , Lars Kuklinski , Sinje Glaeßner, Johannes Goltz, Philipp Schug , Tobias Schütte, Miriam Frank, Oleksandr Berezhny, Sven Decker, Andreas Wahl , Hartmut Kracht , Nils Tegen )
- Katrin Scherer´s The Bliss (Green Deer, 2010, with John-Dennis Renken, Sven Decker, Andreas Wahl, Sebastian Räther, Christian Thomé )
- Without 4 played three time trials (Green Deer, 2012)
- Katrin Scherer's Momentum (Green Deer, 2014, with Benjamin Schaefer , Christian Thomé)
- Katrin Scherer's CLUSTER Quartet (Green Deer, 2018 with Moritz Wesp , Stefan Schönegg , Leif Berger )
literature
- Stefan Uhrmacher: Novalis premiere with jazz saxophonist Katrin Scherer. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung . (Culture) Aug 11, 2005.
- Stefan Uhrmacher: It doesn't make any complaints. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. (Culture) September 15, 2005.
Web links
- Works by and about Katrin Scherer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website from Katrin Scherer
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scherer, Katrin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Illingen (Saar) |