Marie-Christine Schröck

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Marie-Christine Schröck (born May 26, 1972 in Wuppertal ) is a German jazz musician ( tenor and soprano saxophone , clarinet , composition and arrangement ).

Live and act

Schröck first learned the recorder and later the clarinet and piano. In 1988 she took part in a jazz workshop at the Remscheid Summer Academy. From 1989 she learned to play the saxophone with Wolfgang Schmidtke . From 1992 to 1997 she studied jazz saxophone at the Hoogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnheim . Between 1998 and 2007 she lived in Dortmund in order to have her base in Wuppertal again.

Schröck also works as a composer and arranger in the fields of improvised music and jazz. With their project Easy vs. Jazz , which is part of the monthly Jump Monk! emerged in the Dortmund jazz club domicil , in 2006 she won a prize from the “Jazzwerk Ruhr” to record an album with the project. In the Ruhr area ethno band Pott Pack , which Richard Ortmann and Guido Schlösser directed alongside her, musical elements from all over the world were combined with work and everyday sounds from the Ruhr area . The Schröck jazz trio with Sven Vilhelmsson (bass) and Martin Thissen (drums) interpreted their compositions. Currently (2014) she works in a trio with Jörn Dodt ( double bass ) and Sebastian Bauer (drums). She was also a soloist and set player in the United Women's Orchestra , with whom she recorded several albums. She can be heard with the Jan Bierther Quartet on the album Body and Soul (2012). She also played with Burb Tribe, the Connected Horns , in the Guido Schlösser Trio and with the salsa band Jazminas (CD Corazon Cubano , 1999). She also works as an instrument teacher and band project manager in schools.

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  1. ↑ Jazzwerk 2006
  2. ↑ Muse leaves
  3. ↑ Jan Bierther Quartet
personal data
SURNAME Schröck, Marie-Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (saxophone, clarinet, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal