Sound district

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Sound district
Sound district
Sound district
General information
origin Germany
Genre (s) Pop / Jazz A Cappella
founding December 2005
Website www.klang Bezirk.com
Current occupation
soprano
 Tanja Pannier
Old
 Friederike Merz
baritone
 Martin Hagen
baritone
 Matthias Knoche
former members
Barbara Bürkle (2005 to 2009 and 2015 to 2016)
Tobias Christl (2005 to 2008)
Kathrin Scheer (2009 to 2013)
Juan Garcia (2005 to 2013)
Esther Kaiser (2014 to 2015)

Sound district is a vocal quartet that was founded in December 2005 by former singers from the concert line-up of the Federal Jazz Orchestra .

Members

Tanja Pannier

Tanja Pannier (born 1982) The Berlin-based singer and composer decided to live with music in 2002 when she won first prize in the “ Jugend musiziert ” competition. As a singer of the Federal Jazz Orchestra (BuJazzO) under the direction of Peter Herbolzheimer, of the JJO Sachsen-Anhalt under the direction of Ansgar Striepens and with the sound district she celebrated great success. In 2008 she completed her vocal studies with honors and at the same time released her first solo album "Invisible". In her bands and projects, Tanja Pannier looks beyond the boundaries of jazz towards drum and bass , a cappella, jazz-pop , electronic experiments, orchestral music and free improvisation . In addition to her work as a singer, composer, arranger and lyricist, she has been the musical director and lecturer for singing at the "Academy" stage arts school in Berlin since 2009 and writes theater music for renowned theaters such as the Grips Theater. She has also been working as a singing lecturer at the Jazz Institute Berlin since 2014 .

Friederike Merz

Friederike Merz (born 1987 in Karlsruhe) studied at the Jazz Institute Berlin and previously at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim . She is in demand as a singer in various projects by contemporary jazz composers. Her own projects include her band Friede Merz and her duo with guitarists Bertram Burkert and Daniel Fridrik Bodvarsson.

Martin Hagen

Martin Hagen (born 1984) After winning several prizes, including the silver medal for jazz vocal ensembles at the “Choir Olympics” in Busan (South Korea) and the nomination for the CARA awards of the “Contemporary Acappella Recording Artist Society” in San Francisco (USA) Martin studied jazz singing in Amsterdam, New York and Philadelphia from 2007 to 2011. From 2005–2007 he was a member of the BundesJugendJazzOrchesters (BuJazzO) under the direction of Peter Herbolzheimer, Mike Herting and Ed Partyka, and from 1997–2007 he sang in the Berlin a cappella band musix. Until 2015 he lived and worked as a singer, songwriter, lyricist, arranger, musical director and teacher in Amsterdam. Since 2015 he has been living in Berlin again, where he works as a pianist, singer and composer in other projects and bands in addition to the Klang region.

Matthias Knoche

Matthias Knoche, born 1979 in Filderstadt, studied jazz singing and arrangement at the Leipzig University of Music and Theater. During his studies he was a member of the Federal Youth Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Peter Herbolzheimer and was a soloist on the theater stage in various productions. Matthias Knoche brings extensive, long-term choir and acappella experience to the sound district, which he gained in various projects and choirs since his childhood. In addition to his work in the ensemble, Matthias Knoche can be seen as the singer and arranger of the Leipzig big band “Spielvereinigung Sued” and in 2010 released his album “And We All Shine On” in collaboration with the director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Choir, Gregor Meyer. In 2009 Matthias moved to Berlin and has been working from there as a singer, arranger, composer, vocal coach and choir director. Since 2016 he has been a lecturer for jazz and pop choir conducting at the Berlin University of the Arts.

Sound district

The ensemble defines the sound district as the unity of artists - place of performance - space - time - music - and audience to be redesigned at each concert. Whoever enters the sound district experiences jazz, pop, classical and rock in virtuoso arrangements and excellent musicality. Every single member shines with professional vocal training and years of experience. The audience is involved in every concert through charming interim moderation. The joy of the music and the professionalism come to a climax at the end of a concert when, as an encore, audience requests are presented as spontaneous four-part improvisations. They were pioneers in a cappella singing with the occasional use of a loop station as a "fifth band member".

The repertoire of the ensemble includes in-house arrangements and compositions by Tanja Pannier and Matthias Knoche, who shape the special sound of the ensemble with their work. As arrangers, Klanggebiet are not only active on their own behalf, but are also engaged by other groups and choirs, including a. for the Ensemble Amarcord, Singer Pur, Sound Affaire, the Heidelberger Jazzchor, the Vokalconsort Leipzig, The Public Bath House (Taiwan), Voco Novo (Taiwan)

In addition to the awards, Klanggebiet is attracting attention worldwide with the first mandarin-language a cappella CD. In 2008, three arrangers from the Klangbezir district (Tanja Pannier, Juan Garcia and Matthias Knoche) traveled to Taipei to work with the O-Kai Singers to find Chinese songs that would be suitable for a CD. During the stay 4 recordings were made with the O-Kai Singers as guest soloists. The remaining arrangements were written in Berlin and with the help of language coaches were recorded. The result is Chinese melodies with a western-style harmonic structure. The ensemble u. a. with Kaichiro Kitamura (Japan), Fool Moon (Hungary) and the O-Kai-Singers (Taiwan).

Awards

  • 2006:
    • a cappella competition VOKAL TOTAL Graz Austria
      • Jazz category 1st place and a gold diploma
      • Pop category 2nd place and a gold diploma
  • 2009:
    • 1st place at the TAMPERE VOCAL ENSEMBLE COMPETITION Tampere Finland
  • 2015
    • CARA Award nominations for the album "Back To The Garden" in the categories
      • Best Folk / World Album
      • Best jazz album
      • Best European album
      • Best Folk / World Song "Woodstock"
      • Best Arrangement (Woodstock / Arr .: Tanja Pannier)

Discographic notes

  • Vowels and Consonants (2007)
  • Sound district (2008) (pop and jazz standards), guest soloist Jule Unterspann
  • Mandarin Songs (2010), guest soloist O-Kai Singers Taiwan
  • Winter blanket songs (2011), guest soloist Wolfram Lattke (Ensemble Amarcord)
  • Back to the Garden (2014), guest soloist Lukas Teske
  • The scores of the arrangements are published by Edition Ferrimontana and the mandarin-speaking ones are published by the TCMC ( Taiwan Choral Music Center ).

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