Zuzana Leharová
Zuzana Leharová-Pottmeier (born December 1, 1982 in Považská Bystrica ) is a Slovak jazz musician ( violin , composition ).
Live and act
Zuzana Leharová, who grew up in Tyrol from the age of five, received violin lessons from the age of eight, and later also piano lessons. She studied classical violin with Brigitte Themessl at the Tyrolean State Conservatory until 2002 as part of a “preparatory course” before studying jazz violin at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam , in Maastricht and at the Cologne University of Music and Dance ; In 2010 she completed her studies there with a diploma.
In Cologne she has been working in various jazz and improvisation projects since 2008, including a. with Raimund Kroboth's "tabadoul orchestra" ( world wide wahab , 2011), the Multiple Joyce Orchestra (2011), DuckTapeTicket, Urbanic Cycles, gRoBA, Ensemble 66, Comin´ & Going , as well as with musicians like Achim Tang , Albrecht Maurer , Angelika Sheridan , Annette Maye , Axel Lindner , Carl Ludwig Hübsch , Frank Gratkowski , Holger Werner , Jörg Widmoser , Kathrin Pechlof , Matthias Goebel , Mark Dresser , Philip Zoubek , Roman Wasserfuhr , Sebastian Gramss , Simon Nabatov and Udo Moll . She has been playing in the quartet phase from the beginning of the 2010s : four (with Filippa Gojo , Elisabeth Coudoux , Svenja Doeinck ), and leads the Zuzana Leharová Quartet , with Constantin Krahmer (piano), Florian Herzog (double bass) and Nils Tegen (drums) . In 2012 she toured with John Betsch and his Society . She teaches at the Open Jazz House School in Cologne.
Discographic notes
- East Drive : Savka i Griška feat. Tamara Lukasheva (Dreyer Gaido Music Productions, 2016)
- phase :: vier: Balkongeflüster (Klaeng Records, 2017), with Elisabeth Coudoux, Svenja Doeinck, Filippa Gojo, and Antoine Duijkers
- Joscha Oetz : Urban Cycles (Klaeng Records, 2017), Theresia Philipp , Niels Klein , Leonhard Huhn , Elisabeth Coudoux, Laura Robles, Nils Tegen, Danny Schröteler
Web links
- Web presence
- Zuzana Leharová at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Leharová, Zuzana |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leharová-Pottmeier, Zuzana (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovak jazz musician (violin, composition) |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1st December 1982 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Považská Bystrica |