BANDS
Anna Maria felt the deep desire to express herself through music from the time she graduated from acting school. Finally, in 2013, she finally managed to found her jazz quintet, with whom she recorded her first album and went on tour a year later. She started the trio LOVE&LOST and continues her singing journey with the band STURM- for the first time performing her own songs….
STURM
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Bass player, composer and producer Sven Faller met Anna Maria in the small Bavarian town of Schwandorf and shortly after, the two began working on songs. They released their first single “ER FÄLLT” and a new band was born: “STURM” recorded their first album together with Peter Gall on drums and Nicola Andrioli on the piano. In November 2023 they will have their record release at ENJA Records/Munich.
Until now, “STURM” is Anna Maria´s most personal musical work. Her lyrics meet Sven Faller´s compositions. The music of the songs in English, German and French can be described somewhere between Pop, Jazz, New Wave and Chanson…
Anna Maria Sturm Quintet
Actor Anna Maria Sturm originally wanted to make a recording for her acting demo tape. The chemistry with the musicians was a good fit right from the beginning and so less than a year later her album, Tales of Woe, was recorded with the same musical constellation.
The record primarily presents songs from the 20s to the 50s from the Great American Songbook, with a core element consisting of songs by "enfant terrible", Serge Gainsbourg.
The Israeli pianist Uri Gincel began playing piano at age 15 and soon went on to study at the Alon High School for the Arts.
While still in Israel, he composed the music for the award-winning film, Julia Mia, directed by Yuval Granot. In 2009 the pianist moved to Berlin. He has played with Ofer Ganor, Arnie Lawrence, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Bill Summers, Walter Blending and John Bestock, among others.
The Danish bassist, Andreas Lang, is one of the most sought-after bassists in Europe. He started playing bass age 16 and studied at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music in Odense soon after.
In 2007 he moved to Berlin. He has worked with numerous musicians in Europe: Anders Mogensen, Hans Ulrik, Kresten Osgood, Mads la Cour, Felix Wahnschaffe, Rudi Mahall, Christian Lillinger, Oliver Steidle, Gunter Hampel and many more.
With the band, Hütte, he won the New German Jazz Award 2013.
Saxophonist Wanja Slavin began playing clarinet and piano when he was just 6 years old. After initially being taught by his father, at the age of 15 he went on to study saxophone at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich. Later he studied film music at the HFF Potsdam Babelsberg. As a renowned and sought-after soloist in many bands, he has worked with Joachim Kühn, Kenny Wheeler, Médéric Collignon and Peter Evans among others. With his own bands, such as Wanja Slavin Lotus Eaters or Amok Amor, he has been invited to numerous festivals and awarded several prizes.
Peter Gall is a drummer and composer, living in Berlin. He was born 1983 in Bad Aibling. He studied drums with John Riley, John Hollenbeck and composition with Phil Markowitz, Dave Liebman, Jim McNeely and holds a diploma from the University of the Arts / Jazz Institute Berlin. He lived in New York for 2 years based on a DAAD-Scholarship and graduated with a Master Of Music from Manhattan School of Music. Peter Gall shared the stage with Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio, NDR Big Band, The New York Voices, Take 6, Roberto DiGioia’s Web Web, Thomas Quasthoff Quartett, Nils Landgren, Max Herre, Joy Denalane, Afrob, and many more.
He appears on various recordings on labels like ACT, Fresh Sound, Enja, WhyPlayJazz, …. and toured all over the world.
Since fall 2021 Peter is holding a professorship at “Staatliche Hochschule Für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim” and is teaching Jazz-Drums and -Ensemble. With his Quintet, he won the first prize at the BMW Jazz Award in Munich 2021.
“Great jazz arrangements meet an interesting and enchanting voice that doesn’t immediately envelope you. Here lies something unearthly within, a melange of warmth and distance, intimacy and estrangement.”
Love&Lost
The three young musicians recount a love story with the LOVE&LOST project, including all the highs and lows, moments of happiness and disaffection, unto death.
The performance combines songs from Robert Schumann´s cycle 'Frauenliebe und Leben' (A woman’s love and life) with others by the "Queen of Country", Patsy Cline, who died in 1963.
Initially, mixing country and classical genres may appear a little contradictory. However, the pain and love inherent in these songs are present in every epoch. The trials and tribulations of love are timeless.
Anna Maria Sturm is accompanied by the classically trained cellist, Boram Lie – a permanent member of the soloist ensemble Kaleidoskop Berlin – and the Israeli jazz pianist, Uri Gincel.
LOVE&LOST celebrated its world premiere at the Künstlerhaus Schwandorf on February 16, 2017!
“A musical event of particular intensity...”