Fuchsthone Orchestra

In the organizer's words:

The FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA is anything but a conventional big band. With violin, vocals and electronics added to the line-up, the 20 award-winning musicians represent the state of the art of contemporary large jazz ensembles. In the works of band leaders Christina Fuchs and Caroline Thon, brute tutti passages and brass voicings à la Maria Schneider are followed by moments of silence, interspersed with collective improvisations by smaller sub-units of the band. An impressive musical experience that makes full use of the diverse timbres and possible combinations of the instruments involved.

Rich in textures, brilliant arrangements and soloistic highlights, the FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA fascinates, clairvoyantly anchored in the present and at the same time visionarily directed towards the future. Rousing and touching, urgent and challenging. The more than 20 musicians, many of whom have won awards and have been present on the jazz scene for a long time, make up this confident ensemble, which impressively transports you to new worlds.9/24 nrwjazz.net

"This is about much more than the display of the highest musical skills: the Fuchsthone Orchestra understands music as a social, interactive activity in order to convey global messages. With this concept, the two Cologne band leaders Christina Fuchs and Caroline Thon use the medium of music to sharpen our view of the big picture. "9/24 wuppertal engels-kultur.de
"Rarely before has a combination of different jazz styles, both traditional modern and completely free, with contemporary compositional techniques of serious music and noisy elements been heard in such a stringent form... After frenetic applause, the audience was rightly flashed, sometimes speechless, by the playful and musical level of the musicians and the compositions. "9/24 Westdeutsche Zeitung

"The FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA made no shortage of grand gestures - as confident as they were convincing. "FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA Line up

Christina Fuchs & Caroline Thon (direction, composition, conducting)
Roger Hanschel, Julian Drach, Veit Lange, Jens Böckamp, Kira Linn (saxes)
Jan Schneider, Matthias Knoop, John-Dennis Renken, Matthias Bergmann (trumpets)
Philipp Schittek, Matthias Schuller, Moritz Wesp (trombones)
Wolf Schenk (basstrombone, tuba), Zuzana Leharovà (violin)
Filippa Gojo (voice), Laia Genc (piano), Andreas Wahl (guitar), Alex Morsey (bass)
Jens Düppe (drums), Eva Pöpplein (electronics, live samples)