Vanya Slavin

Wanja Slavin in the Unterfahrt jazz club (Munich 2009)

Wanja Slavin (* 1982 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German composer and saxophonist , but also plays the clarinet , flute and piano .

Act

Slavin studied saxophone with Leszek Zadlo and played with Kenny Wheeler , Médéric Collignon , John Schröder , Nick McCarthy , Rudi Mahall , Joachim Kühn , among others .

In 2006 and 2007 he performed his projects at the Munich Piano Summer. In 2009 he played with his sextet at the Moers Festival . At the BMW Welt Jazz Award 2011, Slavin came second with his formation Lotus Eaters , which brought in 5,000 euros (behind Nils Wograms Root 70). In 2015 Slavin played in a trio with Petter Eldh and Christian Lillinger . He can also be heard on recordings by Paulo Cardoso , Christian Lillinger, Gerhard Gschlößl , Christophe Schweizer , Johannes Lauer , Anna Maria Sturm , Niels Klein , Arne Huber and Fabian Arends .

In 2014 he was awarded the ECHO Jazz as instrumentalist of the year national saxophone / Woodwinds for the album Slavin-Eldh-Lillinger .

Slavin has lived in Berlin since 2005.

Discography (selection)

The “engine”: Wanja Slavin (center) with Ludwig Hornung (right) John Schröder ;
2017 after a concert at the Hermannshof in Völksen

• Djaosch Macholi Orchestra , 2001
• Hipnosis Jazz , 2003 (with Gerhard Gschlößl, Ralph Kiefer, Jerker Kluge, Martin Kolb)
• Off minor. Wanja Slavin meets Marc Schmolling , 2003
• Hipnosis Carrousel , 2005 (with Gerhard Gschlößl, Ralph Kiefer, Jerker Kluge , Martin Kolb)
• Wanja Slavin Quintet feat. Médéric Collignon Scirocco , 2009 (with Ronny Graupe , Karsten Hochapfel, Robert Landfermann , Christian Lillinger)
• Wanja Slavin Lotus Eaters For Very Sad and Very Tired Lotus Eaters , 2014 (with Rainer Böhm , Andreas Lang , Tobias Backhaus, Philipp Gropper )
• Eldh, Lillinger, Slavin, Evans Amok Amor
• Peter Meyer / Wanja Slavin / Bernhard Meyer / Jim Black : Other Animal (Traumton, 2018)

Web links

Commons : Wanja Slavin  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of Wanja Slavin
• Wanja Slavin at Discogs (English)

Individual references / comments

1. ↑ BMW Welt Jazz Award: Root 70 triumphs over the Lotus Eaters ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Bärbel Schäfer: Between calm and turmoil in Süddeutsche Zeitung
3. ↑ Wanja Slavin on ECHO Jazz