Monika Roscher

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Monika Roscher with her big band at a concert in Regensburg in 2019

Monika Roscher (born December 30, 1984 in Langenzenn ) is a German jazz and independent guitarist, composer , singer and big band leader.

Live and act

Roscher grew up in Langenzenn and studied jazz guitar and composition at the Munich University of Music . As part of her thesis, she founded the Monika Roscher Bigband in 2012. The band attracted national attention with its mixture of big band brass sections, elements from rock, pop and electro, as well as cinematic sound dramaturgies.

The debut album Failure in Wonderland was released in 2012 by Enja . Following the release, the band toured and played at the final concert of the Jazzfest Berlin 2013, the Südtirol Jazzfestival , the Idar-Oberstein Jazz Days and the Jazz & The City Festival in Salzburg. The band made two guest appearances at the Fusion Festival in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In 2016 the band released their second album Of Monsters and Birds and traveled to Istanbul with the Goethe-Institut . In 2017 she played at the International Jazz Week Burghausen , the International Theaterhaus Jazztagen Stuttgart, the JazzBaltica Festival and in the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. In 2018 the band went on a concert tour to Saint Petersburg.

Roscher worked on Ulrich Rasche's production "Die Räuber" at the Munich Residenztheater, which was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2017. In the same year Roscher wrote a choral work for the play "Luther" by the Hans Sachs playgroup Langenzenn and the Klosterhofspiele Langenzenn (director: Gabriele Küffner) on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. For the theater productions "Woyzeck" (2017) at the Stadttheater Basel and "Das große Heft" (2018) at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden (both directed by Ulrich Rasche) Roscher composed the several hours of music for live cast. Both productions were invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen, "Das große Heft" was awarded the Saxon Theater Prize. Another collaboration with Ulrich Rasche was the production "Elektra" (2019) at the Munich Residenztheater, for which Roscher also composed the music. In 2017/18 she held a guest professorship for composition at the Institute for Music at the University of Osnabrück .

Roscher u. a. on the soundtracks composed by Gerd Baumann for the movies Beste Chance by Marcus H. Rosenmüller and Spieltrieb by Gregor Schnitzler , as well as on the second album by the Munich band Moop Mama (“Das Rote Album”). A collection of Roscher's compositions for dulcimer was published in 2015 by Verlag Thirty-Four.

Discography

  • 2012: Monika Roscher Bigband: Failure in Wonderland ( Enja )
  • 2016: Monika Roscher Bigband: Of Monsters and Birds (Enja)

Prizes and awards

In 2014 Roscher was awarded the ECHO Jazz as “best newcomer of the year” and was listed as a “rising star” in the Critics Poll of the US American Down Beat magazine. She also received the Bavarian Art Prize in 2014 and the music grant from the City of Munich in 2011 and 2014. She was a prizewinner at the Bujazzo Composition Competition in 2013. In 2019, Roscher received the Wolfram von Eschenbach Prize .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andi Hörmann: On the giant playground . Deutschland Radio Kultur contribution from June 20, 2013. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
  2. ↑ Oliver Hochkeppel: The boss . Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 7, 2012.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Olshausen: Berlin, that is still a community of free noises. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from November 6, 2013.
  4. ↑ Ralph Baudach: Wonderfully unclassical . NDR Kulturzeit contribution from March 4, 2014.
  5. ↑ Jan Friday: Frickeljazzrockchaordisch , review of Failure in Wonderland, Zeit Online, November 28, 2012
  6. ↑ Spectacular opening of the season . Press release of the Residenztheater. Retrieved February 25, 2017
  7. ↑ Invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen . Press release of the Residenztheater. Retrieved February 25, 2017
  8. ↑ Sabine Rempe: Langenzenn becomes a stage for Luther , background report, north Bavaria, June 2, 2017
  9. ↑ Jury selection Berliner Theatertreffen 2018 ( memento of the original from February 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Press release. Retrieved March 28, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinerfestspiele.de
  10. ↑ Berlin Theatertreffen 2019 . Jury selection. Retrieved February 21, 2019
  11. ↑ End and new beginning . Newsletter 04/2016 of the IfM. Retrieved February 25, 2017
  12. ↑ Work information on "Songs" by Monika Roscher
  13. ↑ Meeting (SWR 2)
  14. ↑ Hans Hielscher: Jazz Awards: More Echo for Echo Spiegel Online Kultur from May 11, 2014.
  15. ^ 62nd Annual Critics Poll. Digital edition Down Beat August 2014 (English), p. 62
  16. ↑ Bavarian Art Prize 2014 . Website of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
  17. ↑ State Capital Munich 2014 - Grants for Music . Website of the City of Munich. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
  18. ↑ Results of the 2nd Bujazzo composition competition . Website of the Federal Jazz Orchestra. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Roscher, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German guitarist and big band leader
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenzenn