Susanne Folk

So.Weiss is the brainchild of saxophone player Susanne Folk from Braunschweig; all compositions are written by her. During her studies in Essen (Folkwang) and Berlin (University of the Arts) with Peter Weniger and David Friedman she attended workshops lead by Kenny Wheeler, Phil Woods and Joey Baron amongst others. As a member of the Youth Jazz Orchestra of Lower Saxony she toured through Russia and recorded the CD Wind Machine. Continuing her work with big bands she played with Peter Herbolzheimer´s German Youth Jazz Orchestra and the European Jazz Youth Orchestra. Today a wide range of ensembles represents her musical craft: Take, for instance, the international band collective Kenosha Kid that has specialized in an unorthodox accompaniment of movies with a mixture between klezmer-punk and circus music and with which she has so far gone on tour twice through North America and Germany in 2005/2006. In 2005 she also gained experience playing with jazz musicians in New York, where she also had lessons with Greg Osby, Ravi Coltrane, Chris Speed and Tony Malaby and took part in workshops lead by Steve Coleman and Uri Caine.
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