Stephanie Wagner (musician)

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Stephanie Wagner (born June 25, 1967 in Mainz ) is a German flautist who has emerged primarily as a jazz musician .

Live and act

From 1991 Wagner first studied classical flute at the Mainz University of Music with Martina Wahn, from 1995 also jazz flute with Jörg Kaufmann. At Berklee College of Music she continued her studies with a scholarship in 2003/2004. First she formed the Duo Holz & Silber with the guitarist Angela Öztanil, with whom she recorded two albums with chamber music duets from Johann Sebastian Bach to Béla Bartók to Astor Piazzolla. She played in the flute quartet Verquer with the flutists Katrin Gerhard, Britta Roscher and Max Zelzner .

In 2008 she released her first album with her jazz quintet Quinsch . The name of the Quinsch CD Shapes and Colors from 2016 is based on the many different styles on it, including salsa , blues and Robert Schumann . In the Trio Jeeep she plays with the guitarist Thomas Langer and the double bass player Ralf Cetto . Another project is the jazzgems duo with singer and pianist Karmen Mikovic. She runs the playground4 project with Esther Bächlin , Gina Schwarz and Ingrid Oberkanins .

From 1996 to 2003, Wagner taught classical and jazz flute at the Mainz University of Music. Since 1998 she has also been a lecturer for jazz flute in the Frankfurt Kulturwerkstatt Waggong . Your Jazz Flute School was published by Schott-Verlag in 2015 .

She can also be heard on recordings by the Söhne Mannheims , the TonSatz group and the Ralf Fronhöfer Jazz Ensemble.

Prizes and awards

In 2010, Wagner and her quintet Quinsch were among the winners in the competition of the Rhineland-Palatinate regional jazz working group. In 2011 she received the jazz prize of the city of Worms as "an outstanding instrumentalist at a high technical level, as well as for her innovative work in different formations, in which she brings her personality unmistakably".

Fonts

  • Play Jazz Flute - now! A step-by-step approach to styles, phrasing & improvisation . Schott, Mainz 2015. ISBN 978-3-7957-4929-3

Discographic notes

  • Stephanie Wagner's Quinsch: Fade In ( JazzHausMusik 2008, with Steffen Weber sax, Steffen Stütz p, Udo Brenner b, Jens Biehl dr)
  • jazzgems: By Chance ( Mons Records 2010)
  • Jeeep: The First Cut Is the Jeeepest (Rodenstein Records 2010)
  • Stephanie Wagner's Quinsch: Shapes and Colors (Personality Records 2016, with Steffen Weber, Steffen Stütz, Udo Brenner, Jens Biehl)
  • playground4 Hit the Ground Running ( JazzHausMusik 2020, with Esther Bächlin, Gina Schwarz, Ingrid Oberkanins)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b German Flutists
  2. ↑ Worms Jazz Prize 2011 for Stephanie Wagner , accessed July 17, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Stephanie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German flautist (jazz, classical)
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz