Baritonia

The jury of the BMW Young Artist Jazz Award recently honored Valentina Oefele - one of the few women in the world to realize her potential on the baritone saxophone. Her project Baritonia is also a tribute to the instrument, on which such wonderfully gnarled, deep tones can be played.

Valentina Oefele puts her horn, which otherwise often only ekes out a shadowy existence in the wind section, in the limelight and defies it to play unexpected nuances. When the half-Italian combines jazz with electronics, there is always a touch of dolce vita, a maritime note and golden sunlight, the music dances light-heartedly over contemporary grooves.

Born in Munich, Valentina Oefele has already made a name for herself in the Jazzrausch Bigband, the Sunday Night Orchestra, the Tobias Becker Bigband or with the Austrian pop band WANDA and has been involved in theater and musical productions at the Munich Residenztheater or the Luisenburg Festival.

Cast:

Valentina Oefele (bs)

Nico Theodossiadis (as)

Alexander von Hagke (fl)

Philipp Hayduk (tb)

Lion Wegmann (p)

Loreen Sima (b)

Leo Ebert (dr)