Silke Eberhard

Germany / http://silkeeberhard.com/

Silke Eberhard - Jazzmusician and Composer

altosaxophone, clarinet, altoclarinet, bassclarinet, composition

Lives in Berlin

Born in Heidenheim/Brenz

1995 - 2000 studied at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin with Gregoire Peters, Norbert Nagel, Rudi Mahall.

since 1997 she works as a saxophonist, clarinetist und composer in the fields of Jazz, Improvised Music, Contemporary Music and Theater (Schaubühne am+ Lehniner Platz/Berlin, Berliner Ensemble, Volksbühne/Berlin..).

1998 Tour with the International Vancouver and Victoria Jazz Orchestra/Canada (with Hugh Fraser and Slide Hampton)

1998 and 1999 Workshop and Short Term Residency at the Banff Centre of the Arts in Canada.

2000 Masterclass with Dave Liebman in Stroudsbourgh/USA.

2000 - 2001 Member of Aki Takases project April (with Terri Lynn Carrington, Anne Mette Iversen, Ingrid Jensen, Annie Whitehead), with appearance at Berliner Jazztage 2000 and Akis Tristano 317 (with Michael Griener und Jan Roder) playing concerts at Jazz in der Kammer/Deutsches Theater and clubgigs in Berlin

2001 Concerts in New York with the Berlin/NYC-Double Trio Project (Knitting Factory) • CD with „Elevatormusic“ (yvp-music)

2002 Tour with Elevatormusic - Bluenites Berlin, Greizer Theaterherbst, Jazzhaus Hamburg, Ulrichsberg ...(with Tobias Netta, Jan Roder und Björn Lücker)

2003 Foundation of the Silke Eberhard Quartett, Concert with Dave Liebman in Berlin (with Andreas Schmidt and Kay Lübke) and concerts with Ulrich Gumpert and the group B3 selection

2004 - 2005 Guestprofesor at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá/Colombia

2005 prizewinner of the Studiowettbewerb des Berliner Senats with the Silke Eberhard Quartett • CD with the group GET (Konnex), Music for The tale of the sponge at Ruhrtriennale Bochum (w/ Philipp Berhardt and Sabine Worthmann), woodwinds in Mutter Courage (Berliner Ensemble)

2006 • CD release Silke Eberhard Quartett Mohnmarzipan (Intuition) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.