Rieke Katz

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Rieke Katz (born August 31, 1986 in Nagold ) is a German jazz singer .

Live and act

At the age of 16, Katz took singing lessons from Reiner Hiby at the local music school in Nagold. There she also sang as a soloist in the jazz combo MS Groove and in the big band of the music school. In 2013 she completed her studies at the University of Music in Nuremberg with a diploma in pop and jazz singing as a major; there she had lessons with Fola Dada and Reinette van Zijtveld-Lustig ; In 2015 she completed the additional subject jazz piano at the Nuremberg University of Music.

Meanwhile living in Karlsruhe, Katz is employed at the Waghäusel-Hambrücken Music School as a lecturer for voice training and singing and as a choir director. Katz is a sought-after soloist at home and abroad. She usually performs with her own band, but can also be seen in a small cast with her Christmas duo and the dinner jazz duo Voice Lounge .

Their music builds a bridge between pop and jazz. Your album That's Me! (2018) recorded Katz in Stockholm with and with Andy Pfeiler, the guitarist and musical director of the band Nils Landgren Funk Unit . On the album are u. a. Saxophonist & flutist Jonas Wall, as well as the trumpeters Joo Kraus and Thomas Siffling can be heard.

Discography

  • That's me! (Herbie Martin Music 2018; with Andy Pfeiler, Jonas Wall, Joo Kraus , Thomas Siffling )
  • New Start (Herbie Martin Music 2015)
  • The snow falls outside (Herbie Martin Music 2015; as a star child with Gabi Kohler)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Wehn: Jazz with a catchy alarm. Retrieved February 9, 2018 .
  2. ^ Artist page "Rieke Katz" - Herbie Martin Music. Retrieved February 9, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Katz, Rieke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (singer, pianist)
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagold