MUSIC
BIO
!!! NEW ALBUM OUT SOON !!!
Swantje Lampert sax /Katarina Kochetova keys / Elena Holzer guit / Gina Schwarz bass, accordion, comp / Judith Schwarz drums, comp
Guests: Chanda Rule voc, spoken word / Muriel Grossmann spoken word / Iris Camaa spoken word, percussion / Lea Helm voc / Sharon Anegg voc / Loukia Agapiou spoken word / Isabel Moore spoken word / Daniela Lang flgh
It all began with a four-week artist residency by Gina Schwarz in Buenos Aires. A visit to an exhibition about Frida Kahlo provided the decisive inspiration: to make the strength, independence, and emancipation of women audible and tangible in a musical concept album.
This evolved into a musical journey spanning more than two millennia of extraordinary voices and perspectives—from Sappho and Kyniska in antiquity, through female writers such as Emily Dickinson and Alfonsina Storni, to female artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Valie Export. The films “Die Dohnal” and “Monk in Pieces” also served as sources of inspiration. More
Christoph Helm guit
Gina Schwarz b
Chris Parker dr
Elmo Nero brings three exciting protagonists of the Austrian jazz scene together. With compositions and improvisations fed by a wide variety of influences the exceptional musicians manage to captivate their audience ...
GINA SCHWARZ & MULTIPHONICS 8
Album “Way to Blue” was nominated for the GERMAN RECORD CRITICS' PRIZE
in the BORDER CROSSINGS category in 2022.
Gina Schwarz (AT) comp, b - Annette Maye (DE) Bb-cl - Mona Matbou-Riahi (IR) Bb-cl - Steffen Schorn (DE) contra-alto cl, C-sax - Thomas Savy (FR) bcl - Lucas Leidinger (DE) p - Mahan Mirarab (IR) guit - Dirk-Peter Kölsch (DE) dr - Daniel Manrique-Smith (PE) fl
Homage to Nick Drake
In 2020 & 2021 the Austrian jazz bassist and composer Gina Schwarz had the privilege of being invited to the Multiphonics Festival Cologne as Composer in Residence. The starting point of her new compositional ideas was the music of the British folk singer, guitarist and composer Nick Drake. (press)
· 2022
Jazzkonzert Berlin, Club-Kühlspot (DE)
Jazzfestival Neubrandenburg (DE)
Jazzfestival Snowgastein, Badgastein (DE)
Jazzfestival CHUR (CH)
· 2023
Jazzahead! SHOWACT Jazzmesse Bremen (DE)
Jazzfestival JAZZ IM HOF (AT)
· 2024
Jazzkonzert-Serie „Frauen im Jazz“ Sendesaal Bremen (DE)
Jazzfest Bonn (DE)
Jazzkonzert Wuppertal (DE)
· 2025
Jazzclub Porgy & Bess (AT)
Int. Jazzfestival Leibnitz (AT)
Jazzclub Loft Köln (DE)
· 2026
DE - Tour: Bad Bevensen, Kiel, Flensburg, Wuppertal, Dinslaken, Düsseldorf
Int. Musikfest Waidhofen / Thaya (AT)
Gina Schwarz b, comp / Lorenz Raab tp, flgh/ Lisa Hofmaninger soprano sax, bcl Alois Eberl trb / Florian Sighartner vl / Clemens Sainitzer vc /
Christopher Pawluk guit / Stephanie Weninger piano / Judith Schwarz dr
Austrian double bass player-composer-bandleader Gina Schwarz
began her «Pannonica» project as a tribute to Baroness Pannonica de
Koenigswarter (1913-1988), ala Kathleen Rothschild, known as a
patron to bebop musicians. Schwarz wanted that this project would reflect a female consciousness, close to the way that the Baroness saw jazz – jazz as the embodiment of modernism, tolerance, and plurality, an urgent and most necessary antidote to
racism, sexism, and gender-bias. The «Pannonica» nonet began working as a stage band at the Viennese Porgy & Bess club during the 2017-18 season with international femal guests: Marilyn Mazur, Ingrid Jensen, Sylvie Courvoisier, Julia Hülsmann, Karin Hammer, Angelika Niescier and Camila Meza and in 2024-25 with Eleonora Strino, Kris Davis and Hildegunn Øiseth.
When the lockdown was imposed on Vienna in November, 2020, the Austrian jazz bassist and composer Gina Schwarz withdrew to her countryside hometown and responded to the vicissitudes of the pandemic as an artist.
The album "All Alone 2020" was created within six days, six pieces that - according to
their titles - are very different in their compositional concept, character and mood:
"Communication in Isolation", "Motion in Freeze", "Structured Chaos", "Wistful Euphorism", "All Alone - Together in the Long Run" & "Farewell to Resignation".
The creatively arranged brass sections and the melodic string parts create unconventional shapes, colours and tension in the music. The skillfully employed soloists of the nonet “Pannonica” increase the intensity even more. (press)
FUSÃO
GINA SCHWARZ (AT) - bass / ANGELO DA SILVA (BR) - guitar
The intense expression in the tone of the two individual musicians seduces you - into a world of driving rhythms, beautiful melodies and harmonies. The combination of acoustic bass and acoustic guitar is magical - intimate an yet sonorous - a special sound - a special duo. Feelings and moods shape the music. when the first notes sound, you feel at home in your living room. When you close your eyes, you hear a 10-string intsrument - a kind of fusion - fusao. (Simeon Morrow)
