Nicole Johänntgen

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Nicole Jo 2015 at the St. Ingbert Jazz Festival

Nicole Johänntgen (born September 4, 1981 in Fischbach-Camphausen ) is a German jazz musician ( alto and soprano saxophone ) and composer .

Live and act

Johänntgen comes from a musical family and began early musical education at the Sulzbach / Fischbachtal music school at the age of five ; At the age of six she began to play the classical piano, at the age of twelve she switched to the alto saxophone and was influenced by Candy Dulfer . After just one year of teaching, she took part in her father's dance band. She also played in jazz combos and in the Saarland youth jazz orchestra. She studied with Jürgen Seefelder at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Mannheim until 2005 , where she then completed a postgraduate course in composition and arrangement until 2006. She also received lessons from visiting professor Phil Woods .

In 1998 she founded the band Nicole Jo with her brother Stefan Johänntgen (keyboards), Christian Konrad (bass) and Elmar Federkeil (drums) . needs 2B funky , which released a first album in March 1999. Before recording their 5th CD Go on , Christian Konrad was replaced on bass by Phillip Rehm. Since their music opened up to other influences besides funk, the band also renamed itself Nicole Jo . Johänntgen tours with her regularly in Germany, Italy and Switzerland and has so far released six CDs . The last album Colors was released in November 2014. She was also on the road with the women's trio Minou , the European Swinging Orchestra , Tritonus and the Sisters in Jazz . She also plays with Rémi Panossian's trio , which is expanded to form a quintet with Frederik Köster . With the group Respect feat. In 2011 she performed Lars Danielsson at the Festival Women in Jazz in Halle. From July 2011 to September 2013, she hosted her first own monthly radio program Die Rote Sieben on Radio LoRa . Since summer 2014 she has been performing regularly with the Swiss guitarist and singer / songwriter Peter Finc. 2015 she met the Ystad Jazz Festival on Izabella Effenberg , Naoko Sakata , Ellen Andrea Wang and other musicians with whom they the Sisters in Jazz was formed. During her scholarship stay in New York in 2016 , Johänntgen made a detour to New Orleans , where she recorded modern New Orleans jazz on the album Henry together with three young American jazz musicians .

In addition to her compositional work and her concert tours, Johänntgen initiated the SOFIA (Support Of Female Improvising Artists) project. This project is about the further education and promotion of young European musicians, less about musical content itself than about networking within the music industry (musicians, promoters, booking agencies, record labels, etc.) and the wide field of self-marketing.

Nicole Johänntgen has lived in her adopted home of Zurich since 2005 .

Prizes and awards

Nicole Johänntgen was awarded a sponsorship prize by the Saarländischer Rundfunk and the Sparkassen Finanzgruppe Saar. In 2003 she won the Yamaha Sax Contest in Berlin in the “Jazz / Professional” category , and in 2006 the Concours de jeunes solistes de Jazz in Friborg . In 2011 she was the winner of the competition for jazz soloists in Monaco. In 2015 she received the JTI Trier Jazz Award .

Discographic notes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Nicole Johänntgen" on JazzBayreuth
  2. ↑ "The Red Seven" on Radio Lora
  3. ↑ Hans Hielscher: Oldtime Jazz - Kids, let's have a morning pint! In: Spiegel Online . December 23, 2016, accessed December 3, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b biography on the website of the band Nicole Jo
  5. ↑ Jazz Prize in Monaco to Nicole Johänntgen. In: news.ch. November 24, 2011, accessed December 3, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Andreas Kolb: Nicole Johänntgen receives the "JTI Trier Jazz Award". In: JazzZeitung. August 26, 2015, accessed December 3, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Johänntgen, Nicole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Fischbach-Camphausen