Lisa Stick

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Lisa Stick (born August 27, 1987 in Kiel ) is a German jazz musician ( trombone , composition).

Live and act

Stick switched from piano to trombone at the age of twelve and soon played in local bands. Since 2004 she has been a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Youth Jazz Orchestra. Since 2006 she has studied jazz trombone at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater with Nils Landgren and Dan Gottshall ; she spent the academic year 2008/2009 at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm . From 2008 to 2012 she was a member of the Federal Jazz Orchestra . From 2013 to 2015 she completed the Nordic Master's degree in Aarhus, Stockholm and Helsinki.

She has lived in Hamburg as a freelance musician since 2015. With the quintet Flickstick , which she leads together with saxophonist Birgitta Flick and for which she also composes, she released the album “Hymn” in 2014 on WismART. The Lisa Stick Quintet has also existed since 2015, with Lea Grandt and Constantin Pritz (cello), Sven Kerschek (guitar), Christian Müller (double bass) and Dirk Achim Dhonau (drums) and released the debut EP Meilahti in 2016 . There is also the Lisa Stick 7tett , a jazz ensemble including a string quartet, which she presented on the 2017 album Tyst .

Stick is also a member of the Downtown Big Band , Operation Grand Slam , the Marc Löhrwald Nonett and Eine kleine Jazzmusik . She also played in the JazzBaltica Ensemble in 2012 and in the JazzBaltica-Allstar-Bigband in 2016.

Concert tours have taken her to Scandinavia, England, Slovakia, Switzerland and the USA. with the German Women`s Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Angelika Niescier she performed in the Middle East and Egypt. In 2016 she was touring Norway, France and Germany with the NDR Bigband and Al Jarreau . Stick has performed at festivals such as JazzFest Berlin , Elbjazz , Eldenaer Jazz Evenings , Jazzahead , Cairo Jazzfestival and the New Sound Made Festival in Stockholm.

In 2012 she received the JazzBaltica sponsorship award with the quintet “Flickstick”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b CV ( Memento from August 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ entry (jazz calendar)
personal data
SURNAME Stick, Lisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (trombone, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel