Masha Corman
Mascha Corman (* 1988 in Düsseldorf ) is a German jazz singer and composer .
Live and act
After graduating from high school, Corman first studied music in the special education area with a focus on deaf education and supplemented this with artistic training at the Cologne University of Music and Dance in the area of jazz singing with Anette von Eichel and Frank Gratkowski ; she also took private lessons in New York with Fay Victor and Theo Bleckmann . In 2012 she founded her quartet emco , for which she composes and writes. The focus in this band lies in the connection of contemporary jazz, and free improvisation with lyric poetry as well as in the exploration of the noisy voice. Her debut album was released by Ajazz in 2016.
In 2015 and 2016 Corman curated together with Thea Soti the concert series “Moods” she initiated in the Cologne Loft , in which the voice was explored in improvisation and composition. She is also a member of the composers collective Sung Sound , which has worked with various big bands. In 2016 she composed for the Subway Jazz Orchestra . In the same year she opened the “ JazzBaltica ” festival with the Janning Trumann quartet .
Discographic notes
- Monsters for Breakfast (2016, Creative Sources Recordings, with Thea Soti & Salim Javaid )
- emco Schwanenkampf (2016, Ajazz, with Luis Reichard , Jonathan Hofmeister , Florian Herzog , Thomas Sauerborn )
- Grundstein + het woudkoor Pouancé (2016, with Stijn Demuynck, Raphael Malfliet, Leonhard Huhn , Thea Soti, Taisiya Chernishova, Maika Küster , Hanna Schörken, Lisa Müller)
- Monsters for Breakfast Too Much to Carry (2020)
Web links
- Web presence
- Mascha Corman at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b short portrait (Ort eV)
- ↑ Sung Sound: Seven singers, one big band . www.noz.de. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
- ↑ Reinhard Köchl Review of Jazzthing 114
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Corman, Masha |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz singer and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |