Viola Engelbrecht

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Viola Engelbrecht (born January 13, 1959 ) is a German jazz musician (trombonist, pianist, singer), choir director and composer.

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Engelbrecht studied special education education with the elective subject music at the Goethe University Frankfurt from 1978 to 1983 . During this time she also graduated from the school of choir directors at the Hoch Conservatory . She then worked as a teacher in Hanau and at the Integrative School in Frankfurt and composed two children's musicals: "Jungle Tango" and "Farm Musical". Her “Jungle Tango” was premiered at the Theater am Turm Frankfurt, followed by other appearances at the Frankfurt Bread Factory and the New Theater Höchst. At the same time she learned the trombone at the FMW Frankfurter Musikwerkstatt . Since 1990 she has been active as a freelance musician for the first time. a. with “Kleinstadtvariete”, “Viola am Pianola” ( Stride Piano ) and in the vocal jazz ensemble “Floy Doy”. From 1993 to 1995 she deepened her instrumental training and was a piano teacher at the Neu-Isenburg youth music school . Then she completed a diploma course as a jazz trombonist at the University of Mainz . Since then she has worked as an instrumentalist (initially in the United Women's Orchestra and her quartet), ensemble singer, workshop lecturer and choir director. Since 1994 she has directed the choir Die Dissonanten Tanten , which emerged from the Frankfurt Women's Culture Center in 1990, alongside the Frankfurt Sossenheim women's choir . She has also written and published choral music. With her a cappella group VokaLiesen , for which she also arranges and composes, she dedicates herself to vocal jazz. She has also recorded with Russ Spiegel , the Darmstadt Big Band , Jocco Abendroth , and the Tiefenrausch Klangkombinat .

Discographic notes

  • United Women's Orchestra Virgo Supercluster (1993)
  • VokaLiesen Smile! (2004)
  • The Dissonant Aunts Frankfurt - Declaration of Love to a City (2005)

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personal data
SURNAME Engelbrecht, viola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician, composer and choir director
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1959