Stephanie Neigel

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Stephanie Neigel (born January 13, 1986 in Worms ) is a German jazz and pop singer .

Live and act

Neigel presented her first own songs at the age of 14. In 2005 she came to the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim as a guest student , where she completed a bachelor's degree in 2006. After a semester at the Berlin Jazz Institute , she completed her master's degree at the Liszt School of Music in Weimar in 2013 .

As a jazz vocal student, she was a member of the State Youth Jazz Orchestra of Hesse and of Peter Herbolzheimer's master class. She also founded various groups, including the “Stephanie Neigel Band” (2006), the duo “Neigelböhlen” (2009, with guitarist Sebastian Böhlen) and the a cappella band Les Brünettes (2010). With these groups she released three albums. She toured Germany several times and won international singing competitions. She appeared in over 20 concerts at home and abroad in the opening act of Tanita Tikaram . In 2011 she recorded the duo EP Face en Face with Thomas Stabenow . She also worked with Jeff Cascaro , Esperanza Spalding , Al Jarreau , Edo Zanki , Kosho , Thomas Siffling and the hr big band .

After concert tours through China and appearances at the Sapporo Jazz Festival, Neigel released her debut album Introducing Stephanie Neigel in 2013 , which SWR2 presented as “CD of the week”. The CD Capture Time followed in 2015 . She is also on the album Ladies and Gentlemen of the Pasadena Roof Orchestra and the publications Submerging & Emerging and Breaking the Silence by Paul Fox Collective heard. 2018 their third studio album was released in things you at O-Tone Music; at SRW2 it was presented as "album of the week". Through her collaboration with Daniel Stelter , she is featured as a singing partner on two tracks on his album Humming Songs .

Neigel has been a lecturer at the Freiburg University of Music since October 2017. She is a niece of Julia Neigel and married to drummer Thomas Sauerborn .

Prizes and awards

In 2005 Neigel won the "Sing dich into the limelight" competition of the Bundeswehr Big Band . In 2006 she was second at the Jazz Prize of the Jazz Club Rhein-Hessen.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c CV ( Memento from October 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Space-filling debut: Stephanie Neigel in the theater parlor HNA, October 11, 2013
  3. a b c portrait (Licher Kulturtage 2018)
  4. Face en Face
  5. In the matter of you (SWR2)