Maxine Troglauer

Classical music, jazz, contemporary music - for Maxine Troglauer these are not areas that can be meticulously separated. Rather, they are organically interconnected resonance chambers that give the bass trombonist, born in Wiesbaden in 1995, the opportunity to engage in a self-confident dialogue with the past.

Troglauer does not think in clichés but recognises opportunities. Her declared aim is to free her instrument from its niche and help it to develop its own repertoire.

To this end, composers such as Daniel Schnyder and Jonas Schoen-Philbert have written solo pieces for her that bring out the best in the bass trombone. At the same time, she draws inspiration from a wide variety of sources: In her concerts, meditative drones may be played alongside a flute sonata by C.P.E. Bach, and jazzy improvisations may be followed by her own compositions.

The fact that the musician, who completed her master's degree in 2021 with the bass trombone luminary Dave Taylor in New York, is not afraid to explore a wide range of genres is down to her uniquely broad range of experience. Troglauer is one of the few people to have been a member of both the Bundesjugendorchester (BJO) and the Bundesjugendjazzorchester (BuJazzO), the two most important youth orchestras in Germany. The portfolio of the 2022 Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation prizewinner is correspondingly varied, ranging from productions for NDR, BR, the Beethovenfest Bonn and the jazz label ECM to solo and chamber music concerts with the Munich Symphony Orchestra, at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival.

Troglauer's diverse experiences are also reflected in her own compositions and arrangements, which she recorded on her debut album in June 2024 with the exceptional trumpeter Peter Evans, among others.

Troglauer also captures her diverse experiences in her own compositions and arrangements, which she recorded for the first time in June 2024 on her debut album 'HYMN' with, among others, the exceptional New York trumpeter Peter Evans. The album will be released on 6 June 2025 on the Fun in the Church label in collaboration with Deutschlandfunk Cologne. (Josef Engels, „WELT“, „Jazzthing“, „rondo“)

Awards

2022 - Oskar und Vera Ritter Preis, Hamburg Germany

2022 - Finalist at Young Classical Artist Fund, London, UK

2017 - Award & Stipend of Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, Germany

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