Laura Totenhagen

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Laura Totenagen 2017 at the KLAENG summer festival in Cologne's Odonien

Laura Totenhagen (born August 10, 1992 ) is a German jazz singer , classical oboist and composer. Critics highlighted her as the “mature young voice of the German jazz scene” (Anja Buchmann, Deutschlandfunk ) and as a “vocal wonder”.

Live and act

Totenhagen, who grew up in Cologne and Erftstadt, discovered the oboe for herself at the age of eleven. She was a young student with Christian Wetzel and as a member of the Federal Youth Orchestra on a European tour. Later she became interested in jazz and turned to singing; until 2016 she studied jazz singing at the Cologne University of Music and Dance . As a singer in the Bundesjazzorchester under the direction of Niels Klein , she was a soloist on his CD Grove and the Abstract Truth (2016) and toured Germany, Italy, Great Britain and Russia. Their quartet with Felix Hauptmann , Stefan Schönegg and Leif Berger emerged from their trio ; She also presented her album Foliage (Toy Piano 2017) at the Jazzfest Bonn . Together with the singers Veronika Morscher , Sabeth Pérez and Rebekka Ziegler , she runs the a cappella band Of Cabbages and Kings , which released their debut album Aura in 2018 . Further projects are her duo with guitarist Bertram Burkert and the impromptu orchestra.

Prizes and awards

Laura Totenagen 2017

Totenhagen received the Junge Kulturpreis and the Sparda Jazz Award.

Web links

Commons : Laura Totenhagen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Big emotions at the end . In: General-Anzeiger . 29 May 2017
  2. ↑ Amazing and brilliant: Laura Totenhagen at the Bonn Jazz Festival . In: jazzandrock.com . May 27, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Totenhagen, Laura
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz singer, oboist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1992