Olivia Trummer
Olivia Trummer (born 12 June 1985 in Stuttgart) is a German jazz (pianist, vocalist, composer).
Biography[edit]
Trummer was raised in a family of musicians and was honored five times at Jugend musiziert as a federal award winner. Since 2003 she studied jazz piano as well as classical piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart. In 2008/2009 she completed a master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music. All courses she graduated with honors. During her studies in 2004 and 2006, she was commissioned to write compositions for stage and film music.[1]
With her trio she performs her own English and German jazz songs as well as her own arrangements of classical works, such as Mozart, Bach or Ligeti. Since her third albumNobody Knows the pianist is also heard as a singer, where she promotes the jazz song "by ludicrous melody jumps and bold Scat-coloratura in the Lied area.“[2] She is mostly appearing as a soloist (sometimes also in extended classical contexts, together with orchestras like Beethoven Orchestra Bonn or Reutlinger Philharmonics) and with the Olivia Trummer Trio. The trio lineup currently features Makar Novikov on double bass and Earl Harvin on drums. She is active also in the collaboration "Dialogue's Delight", together with Italian drummer Nicola Angelucci and special guest Luciano Biondini, as well as in Rosario Bonaccorso's quintet "Senza far rumore". Past collaborations include the Ensemble Eichendorff (with Claudio Puntin, Libor Šíma as well as Bodek Janke), a duo project with Israeli flutist Hadar Noiberg and several genre-crossing projects between Classical Music and Jazz: the commissioned quintet work "Rejoice, rejazz!" (together with Tim Garland, Gerard Presencer, Phil Donkin and Nicola Angelucci), and a duo project "Classical to Jazz" with the Swiss vibraphone player Jean-Lou Treboux. She shared the stage with the likes of Kurt Rosenwinkel (touring the world as a member of his band "Caipi"), Eric Clapton, Bobby McFerrin, the NDR Bigband, Fabrizio Bosso, Jimmy Cobb, performed at festivals like Montreux Jazz Festival, Umbria Jazz Festival, GroundUp Festival, London Jazz Fest and in venues like the Birdland NYC, Blue Note Tokyo, Shanghai & Milan, Ronnie Scott’s, Konzerthaus Wien & Berlin, Teatro Fenice Venice and others, presenting her original music all over Europe and in the US.
Honors[edit]
Trummer became the second prizewinner at the International Piano Competition Palma D’Oro in Italy in 2008. She was a scholarship holder of the DAAD in 2009 and received grants from the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg and the Bruno Frey Foundation in 2010. Her album Westwind was referred to as excellent on the leaderboard of the third quarter of 2008 at Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik. In 2014 she was the first national advertised by the city of Ingolstadt Ingolstädter Jazzpreis 2014. In 2019 she received the prestigious Jazz Award Baden-Württemberg.
Discography[edit]
- Nach Norden (Neuklang 2006)
- Westwind (Neuklang, 2008)
- Nobody Knows (Neuklang, 2010)
- Poesiealbum (Neuklang 2011)
- Fly Now (Contemplate Music, 2014)
- Classical to Jazz One (Neuklang, 2015)[3]
- Studiokonzert (Neuklang, 2018)
- The Hawk (Flavoredtune, 2019)
- For You (Warner Music Italy 2022)
- Dialogue's Delight (Warner Music Italy, 2023)
References[edit]
- ^ Eintrag bei Bauerstudios Ludwigsburg
- ^ G. und Matthias Spindler Besprechung (PDF; 4,0 MB), Mannheimer Morgen, 15.
- ^ "– C2J - Classical To Jazz One – Olivia Trummer". www.rondomagazin.de (in German). Retrieved 4 October 2023.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Interview (2012, with Carina Prange)
- Mirko Weber (2017-12-07). "Solo oder Trio: was Olivia Trummer am Klavier braucht, sind Freiräume" (in German). Stuttgarter Zeitung. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
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