Christina Zurhausen
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| Birth name | Christina Zurhausen |
| Born | August 15, 1981 Bottrop, Germany |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Guitarist, Composer |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Years active | 2018–present |
| Labels | Unit Records, Mons Records, Fattoria Musica Records |
| Website | www |
Christina Zurhausen (born 15 August 1981 in Bottrop, Germany) is a German guitarist and composer in the field of jazz and improvised music. Characteristic of her style is the mixture of free improvisation and jazz with the grunge aesthetic of the 1990s.[1][2]
Life and work
Zurhausen grew up in Bottrop. She took piano lessons for two years at the age of twelve and electric guitar lessons at 17. In her youth she listened intensively to punk and rock bands such as Nirvana, The Doors and Rage Against the Machine. At the age of 20, Zurhausen discovered the music of jazz guitarist John Abercrombie and with it jazz, with which she occupied herself intensively from that time on. Since then, Zurhausen has incorporated the influences of rock music, improvised music and jazz into her own music.
From 2004 Zurhausen studied at the Munich Guitar Institute (MGI) and graduated with a diploma in 2005. Between 2003 and 2006 she studied philosophy and history at the University of Duisburg-Essen. She then studied jazz guitar from 2007 to 2009 at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln in Cologne and then from 2010 to 2014 at the Institut for music (IfM) at the Osnabrück University of Music, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree under Frank Wingold, Joachim Schönecker and Philipp van Endert.[3]
Zurhausen plays in her band Ausfahrt with Yaroslav Likhachev, Torben Schug and Ramon Keck and is bandleader and composer here. She also plays in Dialectical Flow with Ramon Keck, her Christina Zurhausen Trio, Endgegner with Johannes Still, Dario Schattel and Ramon Keck, By the way with Emese Mühl and Frank Wunsch and Who Let the Cat Out and releases albums with them. In March 2023, her solo album See You In The Trees was released on Unit Records.
Since 2015, Zurhausen has been a lecturer for guitar, bands and workshops at the Offene Jazz Haus Schule in Cologne.[4]
Publications
- 2018: Ausfahrt - Vergessene Möglichkeiten, Fattoria Musica Records (Christina Zurhausen - guitar, Henning Vetter - saxophone, Torben Schug - bass, Ramon Keck - drums).
- 2021: Exit - The End of the World, Unit Records (Christina Zurhausen - guitar, Yaroslav Likhachev - saxophone, Torben Schug - bass, Ramon Keck - drums)[5]
- 2022: By the Way - Time for Blue, Mons Records (Frank Wunsch - piano/composition, Emese Muehl - vocals, Christina Zurhausen - guitar/composition).
- involved in
- 2022: Breeze - Breeze
- 2022: Endgegner - Endgegner goes Indie
- 2021: Endgegner - ... plays PC (EP)
- 2021: Final Boss - Local Multiplayer
- 2019: Boss Man - B and Up
References
- ↑ "Clear Melodies". nmz.de (in Deutsch). 2021-09-15. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
- ↑ Annette Schroeder (2022-05-23). "Jazz und Grunge: Gitarristin präsentiert neues Album im Kunsthaus Troisdorf". Kölner Stadtanzeiger (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-06-27.
- ↑ "Christina Zurhausen". real-live-jazz.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-07-06.
- ↑ "Dozent*innen". jazzhausschule.de (in Deutsch). 2020-03-03. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
- ↑ Rolf Thomas (2022-01-17). "Exit: The End of the World" (in Deutsch). Jazz thing. Retrieved 2023-07-04.
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