Olivia Trummer

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Olivia Trummer (born June 12, 1985 in Stuttgart ) is a German jazz musician (piano, vocals, composition).

Live and act

Olivia Trummer was born in 1985 in Stuttgart into a family of musicians. At the age of 4 she began her classical piano training and at the same time discovered her curiosity to express herself through improvisation and composition. She studied jazz piano and classical piano at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts , graduated with honors and continued her jazz piano studies at the Manhattan School of Music in New York with the help of a DAAD scholarship . The formative years spent in the jazz metropolis of New York as well as her close relationship to classical music have always served her as sources of inspiration.

With the "Olivia Trummer Trio" in particular, the trained pianist also draws attention to herself as a singer, who successfully combines jazz and songwriting with one another, promoting jazz singing "through ludicrous melody jumps and bold scat coloratura in the art song area ."

The bridging between jazz and classical music is also reflected in her project series "C2J - Classical To Jazz": She often performed her jazz arrangements of works by JS Bach, WA Mozart and D. Scarlatti at classical festivals in a duo with the Swiss vibraphonist Jean-Lou Treboux . Another project in the C2J series, “Rejoyce, rejazz!”, Was commissioned in 2017 by the Handel Festival Halle and the “Women in Jazz” Festival Halle. Trummer processed selected pieces from GF Handel's "Messiah" into a jazz suite, which they performed in a quintet with Gerard Presencer (tp and flgh), Tim Garland (ts and ss), Phil Donkin (db) and Nicola Angelucci (dr) performed.

Since 2018 she has played concerts regularly as a soloist and since autumn 2018 also with the Israeli flautist Hadar Noiberg, with whom she released the album The Hawk (2019). From 2016 to 2018 she toured the world with the band Caipi von Kurt Rosenwinkel .

Earlier projects and collaborations include the NDR Big Band (2014 and 2016), the Eichendorff Ensemble (with Claudio Puntin , Libor Šíma and Bodek Janke ), the East Drive group and various literary-musical productions with Marit Beyer and Malte Prokopowitsch (“Die Trip to Brazil ”,“ The Little Mermaid ”,“ Paris ”).

In October 2019, the Freiburg Jazz Choir released a version of Trummer's song Precious Silence arranged for choir by Klaus Frech on its CD Infusion .

She was commissioned as songwriter by Kurt Rosenwinkel (" Recognized" ) and Mario Biondi (" Mesmerizing Eyes", "Give our love another chance", "Dream for two" ).

Concerts have taken her across Germany and beyond to Austria, Italy, England, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Russia, Japan, China, Israel, Switzerland and the USA, with performance highlights for example in Carnegie Hall at the “London Jazz Fest” ", In the" National Concert Hall "in Dublin, at the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival, at Elmau Castle , in the Konzerthaus Berlin and in the Liederhalle Stuttgart . On December 16, 2019 she was at the official opening concert of the Beethoven Year in the Bonn Opera together with Dirk Kaftan and the Beethoven Orchester Bonn and the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno as a soloist in the "Chorfantasie op.80" by Lv Beethoven, which she also introduced freely improvising.

She can also be seen in the Italian film “ Futura” by Lamberto Sanfelice as an actor and musician alongside Niels Schneider and Stefano di Battista (release: 2020, director: Lamberto Sanfelice, camera work: Luca Bigazzi).

Prizes and awards

Olivia Trummer has received numerous awards: with the scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation in 2010, the scholarship from the Bruno Frey Foundation in 2010, the Ingolstadt Jazz Prize 2014 (which was announced nationally for the first time by the city of Ingolstadt) , and the 2nd prize in the International Piano Competition Palma D'Oro in Italy 2008, as well as five federal prizes at Jugend Musiziert . From 2013 to 2016 she was sponsored by Bayer Kultur in Leverkusen as a jazz artist in the “stART” program and received several project grants from the Music Initiative. In 2019, she was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Jazz Prize, endowed with 15,000 euros, for “her genuine jazz game and expressive singing” ; she invited the trumpeter Fabrizio Bosso as a special guest to the award winners concert .

Her album Westwind was recognized on the list of the best in the third quarter of 2008 at the German Record Critics' Prize.

Her song "Meer ohne Wasser" from her album poetry album landed on the list of best songs in 2012 by the German-speaking Music Association . In 2015, she received a prize at the Troubadour chanson competition .

Discographic notes

  • To the north (Neuklang 2005), (Neuklang 2006, with Joel Locher , Marcel Gustke and Libor Sima)
  • Westwind (Neuklang 2008, with Joel Locher, Bodek Janke, and Matthias Schriefl )
  • Nobody Knows (2010; with Antonio Miguel, Bodek Janke, Matthias Schriefl)
  • Poetry album (Neuklang 2011, with Johannes Lauer , Martin Gjakonovski , Bodek Janke)
  • Fly Now (Contemplate 2014; with Kurt Rosenwinkel , Matt Penman , Obed Calvaire )
  • C2J Classical To Jazz one featuring Jean-Lou Treboux (Neuklang 2015)
  • Studio concert: Olivia Trummer (Neuklang 2018)
  • The Hawk (flavoredtune 2019, with Hadar Noiberg)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ G. and Matthias Spindler Review (PDF; 4.0 MB), Mannheimer Morgen , March 15, 2010
  2. ↑ Jazz album of the week (NDR)
  3. ↑ Olivia Trummer receives Jazzpreis Baden-Württemberg 2019 , SWR2, accessed July 7, 2019
  4. ↑ Meeting (Rondo)
personal data
SURNAME Trummer, Olivia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (piano, vocals)
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart