Meike Goosmann
Meike Goosmann (* 1966 in Berlin ) is a German jazz musician ( soprano saxophone , clarinets).
Goosmann received piano and recorder lessons as a child; then she learned the clarinet and saxophone and dealt with new music, jazz and klezmer. From 1994 to 1999 she studied at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin with Jiggs Whigham , Volker Schlott , Grégoire Peters , Gebhard Ullmann and Kirk Nurock .
She is a founding member of the United Women's Orchestra , in which she played in 1993 until its dissolution in 2009 and appeared at the Leverkusen Jazz Days and other festivals. Since 2000 she has directed her own quintet, for which she also composes ( Portraits , 2007). She performs in a duo with the pianist Julia Hülsmann ; in the Trio Lezarde she plays with Elvira Plenar and Anka Hirsch ( la trace du lézard , 2006). As a solo artist, she appears at vernissages and in collaboration with personalities such as Reuven Moskovitz and Hannelore Elsner as well as in the groups Brassappeal and Les Belles du Swing , which was awarded the 2006 Studio Prize by the Berlin Senate. She has also performed with Gerhard Schöne , Anne Clark , Trio Choral Concert and Carlos Bica .
In November 2014, her trio with Laia Genc (p) and Christoph Hillmann (dr) performed a 10-day workshop with local musicians in Yangon , Myanmar, at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut .
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- ↑ Trio Meike Goosmann: “The attitude to life and inspiration are gifts!” , Goethe-Institut Myanmar November 2014, accessed January 29, 2017
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Goosmann, Meike |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |