BIOGRAPHY JUDITH SCHWARZ 

 

After completing her master's degree at the Anton Bruckner Private University in 2018, Judith Schwarz has been working nationally and internationally as a drummer and composer in the field of jazz and improvised music. Already during her studies in Linz as well as during her Erasmus stay in Basel (Jazzcampus Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz), successful projects were formed that have been able to establish themselves in the music scene over the last few years.

 

Active as an instrumentalist, bandleader and composer in the following projects:
other:M:other, chuffDRONE, Beyond the Beat, Little Rosies Kindergarten, Schülande Engaling, DUO Hofmaninger/Schwarz, Mel*E 

 

Also:

Make in Count (performance with Matteo Haitzmann), Gina Schwarz Pannonica, Christian Muthspiel's Orjazztra, Anna Anderluh Trio, Peter Ponger New Trio, Vienna Improvisors Orchestra, Vienna Klezmore Orchestra

 

Further musical projects:

September 2019: soloist in the Burgtheater production “Mephisto” (Bastian Kraft); 2020 international cooperation project “Sound Collector”; 2023 Kran Etüde (Katharina Ernst, Florentina Holzinger)

 

Collaboration with:

Maria Portugal (BR), Ingrid Jensen (CAN), Sylvie Courvoisier (CH), Karin Hammar (SWE), Camilla Meza (CHL), Angelika Niescier (DEU) and Julia Hülsmann (D), Maria Portugal (BR), Peter Herbert, Peter Ponger 

Selected concerts: Jazzfestival Ljubljana (SVN), Jazz & Wine of Peace Festival (IT), Jazzfestival Alto Adige(IT) 2019, Jazz in the native yards (ZAF), Moers Festival(D) 2019, Jazzto pad(PL) 2019, Jazz in the ruins(PL), Jazzfestival Buenos Aires(ARG), Jazzfestival Saalfelden(AUT) 

 

Discography: 

- Little Rosies Kindergarten: „Du Bleda Bua“ (Mandelbaum Verlag, 2024)

-other:M:other: „metamorph“ (Klanggalerie, 2023)

- Little Rosies Kindergarten: „EXPLORATIONS“  (Listen Closely, 2023)

-Duo Hofmaninger/Schwarz: „Sound Collector“ (Ö1 Edition Jazz Contemporary,2022)

- chuffDRONE: „Mosaik" (Ö1 Edition Jazz Contemporary,2022)

- Gina Schwarz Pannonica: „All Alone 2021" (Cracked Anegg Records, 2021) - chuffDRONE: „actio/re:actio" (Jazzwerkstatt Records,2020)

- Gina Schwarz: „Pannonica" (Cracked Anegg Records, 2020)

- Little Rosies Kindergarten: „Jeder gegen Jeden" (Listen Closely, 2020)

- Anna Anderluh: „Leave me Something Stupid" (Session Work Records, 2021)

- First Gig Never Happened: „Mingus without Bass, Monk without Hat“ (Alessa Records, 2018)

- Fraufeld Vol 1 (Freifeld Tonträger, 2017)

- Little Rosies Kindergarten (Listen Closely, 2017)

- Matrioska dreamteam: „Unusual Place“ (Listen Closely, 2015)

- chuffDRONE: „chuffDRONE“ (Jazzwerkstatt Records, 2015) 

 

Jazzfestival Münster 2023 (other:Mo:ther)

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Judith Schwarz’s new project Other:Mother also played their first gig at the festival. Featuring modular synthesizer, treated piano and Schwarz’s mesmeric and eye-catching drumming the music moves between Musique concrète to film noir and creating music for a ‘disturbed dream’ but which was hugely enjoyable.

 

Porgy & Bess 2021 (Little Rosies Kindergarten)

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Judith Schwarz. One of today's most striking personalities on the fur/metal instruments and the outstanding musician of the evening, without wishing to belittle the others. It is clear that “Little Rosies” only exist as a collective. But Judith Schwarz made the light and heavy parts dance with such impetus, kept them constantly bubbling, whirled cross and complementary rhythms so nimbly, always placed the beat in a decisive position, surrounded by resourceful accentuation patterns, that it particularly outshone the collective “gimmicks”. Extraordinary sensitivity and impressive emotional power also weighted each of her strokes. Schwarz's playing was the motoric sting in the compositions. Ideas in this regard all came from Little Rosie's “Brothers and Sisters”. 

 

Alto Adige Jazzfestival (Duo Hofmaninger/Schwarz)

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And if the French were in apprehension, without counting on a promising discovery, one heard the Austrian percussionist Judith Schwarz - in duet with Lisa Hofmaninger (alto and clarinet bass), who has a very melodic playing, full of colors and accessories (log drum, prepared toms, archet, a lively drone, speaking phrases, etc.) as well as presenting a lively and sensitive beat. Follow very closely: She is not thirty years old.