Born 1961 in Nuremberg, she studied the visual arts, which still have an important influence on her music. Since moving to Hamburg in 1982 she has been involved in free improvisation and experimental music. Since then she has “established a distinguished grammar of sounds beyond the open trumpet” (jazzdimensions.de). She performs solo, with dancers, working ensembles, and one-time collaborations with musicians from around the world.
She has been organising the festival of improvised music Real Time Music Meeting for over ten years.
Music performances in Europe, USA and the Middle East, together with UNSK (Birgit Ulher / Martin Küchen / Lise-Lott Norelius / Raymond Strid), the Trio PUT (with Ulrich Phillipp and Roger Turner), Nordzucker (with Lars Scherzberg and Michael Maierhof), Heiner Metzger, Jürgen Morgenstern, Martin Klapper, Tim Hodgkinson, Dorothea Schürch, Rhodri Davies, Robyn Schulkowsky, John Edwards, Michael Zerang, Damon Smith, Lou Mallozzi, Gino Robair, Martin Blume, Ute Wassermann, Albert Márkos, Sven Ake Johansson, Gene Coleman, Ernesto Rodrigues, Heddy Boubaker, Tim Perkis, Nate Wooley, Bryan Eubanks, Tanaka, Ariel Shibolet, Christoph Schiller and Sean Meehan.
Festivals:
Densités Festival, Wesnes-en-Woevre, 2009, www.vudunoeuf.asso.fr
Edgetone New Music Summit, 2008, San Francisco
Soundfield Festival 2007, Philadelphia
FONT Festival of New Trumpet Music 2007, New York
Kaleidophon Ulrichsberg 2007, Austria, www.jazzatelier.at
Festival für improvisierte und komponierte zeitgenössische Musik 2006, Basel
Ausklangfestival 2006, Hörbar Hamburg
On the Outside Festival 2006, Newcastle with Daniel Carter, Roy Campbell, William Parker, Hamid Drake, Gail Brand, Pat Thomas and Gerry Hemingway amonst others. www.ontheoutsidefestival.co.uk
Blurred Edges 2006, Hamburg
i and e Festival 2006, Dublin, www.i-and-e.org
High Zero Festival 2005, Baltimore, Maryland www.highzero.org
Plain Music Festival 2005, Warsaw
Suoni e Sound 2002, Elba
Festival Unerhört 2001, Wendland
Jazzwoche Hannover 2000
Szünetjel Festival 1999, Budapest (Tim Hodgkinson, Albert Márkos, Johannes Bauer, John Edwards, Rhodri Davies, Dieter Ulrich, Söres Zsolt)
LEM Festival 1999, Barcelona
Warsaw Autumn 1998: International Festival of Contemporary Music
European Improvisation Orchestra (with Tim Hodgkinson, Albert Márkos, Martin Klapper, Krzysztof Knittel, Raymond Strid
amongst others) Radio- and TV broadcast
Konstanzer Jazzherbst 1995 und 2001
HumanNoise Congress 1995, Wiesbaden
Jazzfestival Schaffhausen 1995
Rote Fabrik, Zürich 65 (Dorothea Schürch, Marianne Schuppe, Hannah E. Hänni, Co Streiff, Birgit Ulher, Stevie Wishart, Claudia Ulla Binder, Robyn Schulkowsky), Radiobroadcast DRS
Canaille Festival 1992, Frankfurt
Jazzfestival Hannover
