FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA "Structures & Beauty" released by the label ENJA
Fotocredit: Volker Beushausen
On April 23, 2023 the FUCHSTHONE CD "Structures & Beauty" will be released by the label ENJA Records
Preparations are in full swing...audio mixing, photo selection for the booklet, writing lyrics in trusted collaboration with our designer Jumana Hamandouche...and our sound engineer Nico Raschke at Hansahaus Studios Bonn.
Thanks to the wonderful musicians of the FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA and also to the great team in the technical department of the DLF: sound engineer Christoph Rieseberg and Michael Morawitz. Special thanks to the responsible editor of Deutschlandfunk Odilo Clausnitzer.
From April 23rd we are on CD release tour, in Magdeburg, Karlsruhe, Bonn as well as in Southern Germany...more under events.
The New York City Jazz Records Best of List 2022!
Happy to be honourably mentioned with the new release of KontraSax- Die Kunst des Reisens in The New York City Jazz Records Best of List 2022!
SONIQ Nucleus
next concert: May 31st, 2023 Cologne, Stadtgarten
SONIQ Archipelago
The new project of the musicians' collective SONIQ. More at soniq-music.com
concerts: 27.10.22 Dortmund, Domicil, 28.10.22 Cologne, Stadtgarten
FUCHSTHONE Chamber ORCHESTRA
Festival "Romanischer Sommer" Cologne
It is probably the most beautiful festival in Cologne, presenting different genres in all of the 12 romanic churches in the city.
FUCHSTHONE was part of it with a commision for a 10 piece chamber orchestra!
The video of the WDR recording is now online!
Artist in Residence NAIRS 2022
In July and August 2022 I will stay at Fundaziun NAIRS in Switzerland as Artist in Residence. Looking for nature and inspiration here to write new music... the odds are very good! see you in August...
SONIQ New Folk Songs
Folk songs are authentic testimonials of language, culture and tradition. They are so called because they are sung by countless human beings across the world. The simplicity and honesty of this music and the way in which tales are told, is moving. Rehearsals and concerts are planned in Germany during December 2021. In the spring of 2022, more concerts will follow as part of a tour through Norway. Our guests from Norway will be: Karl Seglem (Sax, Goat Horn) / Berit Opheim (Voice) / Erlend Viken (Fiddle, Hardanger fiddle)
Travelling residency in Iceland
Thanks to i-Portunus I will be travelling for research to Iceland in July 2021. Very much looking forward!
Nominated for the German Jazzprice 2021
New VideoTrailer and a complete composition of mine: MAMOIADA
more information: www.fuchsthone.com
Line-up
Christina Fuchs, Caroline Thon (Lead, Composition, Conducting)
Roger Hanschel, Theresia Philipp, Matthew Halpin, Jens Böckamp (Saxophones) Susanne Weidinger (sax, clarinet, flute), Christian Mehler, Matthias Knoop, Heidi Bayer, Matthias Bergmann (Trumpets), Philipp Schittek, Matthias Schuller, Matthias Muche (Trombones), Wolf Schenk (basstrombone, tuba), Zuzana Leharova (violin), Filippa Gojo (voice), Laia Genc (piano), Andreas Wahl (guitar), Alex Morsey (bass), Jens Düppe (drums), Eva Pöpplein (electronics, live samples)
upcoming Concerts:
Oct 16, 2021 Darmstadt, Dec 11, 2021 Cologne
Big Band Records
This is pretty classy imaginative big band playing, compositions by reedist/arranger Christina Fuchs, appearing on the Big Band Records label. If you are into Maria Schneider then you will land happily enough here. Marlbank, Ireland 17.7.2019
buy here: Big Band Records
or digital on bandcamp
Duo "flux"
Accordionist Florian Stadler and saxophonist, clarinettist and composer Christina Fuchs have been a musical couple like no other for many years. With ease and great intensity, they move through their own world of compositions and seem to know no technical limits. Whatever Fuchs and Stadler start is always a musical dialogue: they can go fast and loud. And they can groove, but what is much more important to them is the sound, merging structures, delicate webs of sound or in free, sometimes wild, always intensely interrelated improvisation, with breathtaking twists and turns from total fusion to total individuality. Their thrilling playing comes across as effortless, intimate, fun and humorous.
CD available here
next concerts: 4.6.2022 Herford, Neuer Markt - open air
Multiphonics-Festival Oct 2-7.2018
Multiphonics Seven play Wood4Winds
Wood4Winds will be the second home production of the Multiphonics-Festival.
Christina Fuchs, WDR JAZZ AWARD winner for composition wrote a program for four clarinetists
who will be prensented at the festival, firts of all "Artist-in-Residence" Anat Cohen from New York, Gabriele Mirabassi, Kazutoki Umezu and Annette Maye.
The rhythmussection will be from Cologne: Hans Lüdemann, Piano, Reza Askari, Kontrabass und Christoph Hillmann, Drums.
4.10.2018 Köln, Stadtgarten 5.10.2018 Dortmund, Domicil
WINNER of 5th Annual Jazz Composition Contest for Women Composers 2017
We received a wonderful variety of compositions from composers in Germany, Israel, Korea, Canada and USA! Thank you to all the women who entered this years's contest!
This year's winner award goes to Christina Fuchs for Roots and Rhyzomes
The compositions will be premiered and recorded live by the Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra featuring special guest Sherrie Maricleof DIVA at the Shorewood Performing Arts Center on October 25, 2017 as part of the Earshot Jazz Festival. Composers will be in attendance.
COLOGNE meets MELBOURNE
Europe Tour 2014
The Tour was great! Thanks to everybody who contributed.
from l to r:
Ulla Oster, Florian Stadler, Scott Tinkler, Andrea Keller, Christoph Hillmann, Christina Fuchs, Joe Talia, Ian Whitehurst
Artpipes e.V. is excited to announce the second installment of it’s Australian-German cultural collaboration. Cologne Meets Melbourne brings two leading female jazz composers from opposite ends of the world together on stage for a series of concerts in Europe, May 2014. Cologne contemporary jazz unit, the Christina Fuchs Quartet ‘No Tango’ met up with Melbourne’s Andrea Keller Quartet in Australia, 2012. Artpipes’ first exchange project brought the two quartets together in an international octet experience premiering at Australia’s Wangaratta Jazz Festival, with new music written by Fuchs, Keller and ‘No Tango’ bassist Oster.
15.5.14 Dresden
16.5.14 Berlin
17.5.14 Dortmund (WDR Jazz Meeting)
18:5.14 Luxembourg
22.5.14 Wuppertal
23.5.14 Munich
15.5.14 Cologne
more info: www.artpipes.net special thanks to Maryanne Piper for the idea and organisation
International Competition 'Scrivere in Jazz' 2016 Sardinia/Italy
1st price for Christina Fuchs at the international competition for jazz orchestra 'Scrivere in Jazz' in the category 'original composition' ! The final concerts took place on September 8th and 9th in Sassari, Palazzo di Città/Teatro Civico. The music was played by the 'Orchestra Jazz della Sardegna', Conductor: Paolo Silvestri.
Christina Fuchs 'No Tango Quartet' @ Jazz au Chellah Festival Maroc
No Tango Quartet live @ the Festival Jazz au Chellah Rabat/Maroc
Sept 20, 2015 8:30 pm
After the quartet concert, No Tango will meet the marocan singer Sana'a Marahati with
her band on the same stage at 9:30 pm
Sept 21, 2015 No Tango Quartet @ Tanger /Maroc
Salle Severo Ochoa, 8:30 pm- thanks to Goethe Institute Maroc
WDR JAZZ AWARD winner for COMPOSITION 2014: Christina Fuchs
