Apr. 4th, 2025 Wuppertal, 20h

RELOADED #6 at the LOCH
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Apr. 5th, 2025 Aachen, 20h

RELOADED #6
Klangbruecke
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Wir sind für den Deutschen Jazzpreis 2025 nominiert!

FUCHSTHONES nominated for German Jazzaward 2025 in the category “Large Ensemble of the Year”

We’re back in the game and in the shortlist! In 2021, the FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA was nominated for the first time…

Loch-Wuppertal

Apr. 4th, 2025 Wuppertal, 20h

RELOADED #6 at the LOCH
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Apr. 5th, 2025 Aachen, 20h

RELOADED #6
Klangbruecke
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Structures & Beauty / Debütalbum / Fuchsthone Orchestra

Structures & Beauty

The debut album: a special selection of compositions as a studio version

Check it out now!

Double CD with a detailed booklet.

The contemporary jazz ensemble FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA with over 20 musicians and two conductors was founded in 2019 by Christina Fuchs and Caroline Thon. The two female composers from Cologne stand for a modern and cross-genre sound for jazz orchestras. In 2021 they were nominated for the German Jazz Award. In April 2023 they will release their first collaborative album “Structures & Beauty” on Enja Records. Their regular concert series “Reloaded” in Cologne’s Stadtgarten continues and will be expanded with exciting guests starting in 2023.

Apr. 4th, 2025 Wuppertal, 20h

RELOADED #6 at the LOCH
Tickets and advance booking

Apr. 5th, 2025 Aachen, 20h

RELOADED #6
Klangbruecke
Tickets and advance booking

The contemporary jazz ensemble FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA with over 20 musicians and two conductors was founded in 2019 by Christina Fuchs and Caroline Thon. The two female composers from Cologne stand for a modern and cross-genre sound for jazz orchestras. In 2021 they were nominated for the German Jazz Award. 

In April 2023 they will release their first collaborative album “Structures & Beauty” on Enja Records. Their regular concert series “Reloaded” in Cologne’s Stadtgarten continues and will be expanded with exciting guests starting in 2023.

We are nominated for the German Jazz Award 2025

LATEST

FUCHSTHONES nominated for German Jazzaward 2025 in the category “Large Ensemble of the Year”

We’re back in the game and in the shortlist! In 2021, the FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA was nominated for the first time…

PRESS SAYS

9/24 nrwjazz.net

„…a spectacular multimedia concert by Cologne's Fuchsthone Orchestra raised the bar for the future of contemporary jazz orchestra culture.The synaesthetic overall experience was enhanced by innovative light art. Claudia Schmitz, a visual artist with heart and soul,...

9/24 nrwjazz.net

„This is about much more than just displaying the highest level of artistic ability: the Fuchsthone Orchestra considers music to be a social, interactive instrument for conveying global messages. With this concept, the two Cologne band leaders Christina Fuchs and...

9/24 engels-kultur.de

“Rarely before have we heard such a stringent combination of different jazz styles, both traditional modern and completely free, with contemporary compositional techniques of serious music and noisy elements… After frenetic applause, the audience is truly...

NEWS

Thomas Mau berichtet im WDR über FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA

Reloaded #6 WDR 3 concert | Radio Broadcast on 9.02.2025 at 20:04 – 23:00

The German WDR Radio reports about the Dortmunder Jazztage from 15.11.2024: The Fuchsthone Orchestra meets Media Artist Claudia Schmitz. You can hear excerpts from our concert program “Reloaded #6”.
This program is hosted by Thomas Mau.

BR-Klassik Konzertmitschnitt

Reloaded #6 concert on BR-Klassik/Jazztime Radio – Jan. 2nd, 2025

Our concert at the 39th Würzburg Jazz Festival was recorded live and will be broadcast on BR-Klassik/Jazztime on Thursday, January 02 2025, 22.03 – 23.00. Radio host: Henning Sieverts

FTO mit der Videokünstlerin

04.09.2024 – Press coverage of the premiere with video artist Claudia Schmitz

The premiere of FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA’s performance with live moving images by video artist Claudia Schmitz in Wuppertal’s Immanuelskirche was impressive and a complete success

EVENTS

Loch-Wuppertal

Apr. 4th, 2025 Wuppertal, 20h

RELOADED #6 at the LOCH
Tickets and advance booking

Apr. 5th, 2025 Aachen, 20h

RELOADED #6
Klangbruecke
Tickets and advance booking

RECORDS

Structures & Beauty / Debütalbum / Fuchsthone Orchestra

Structures & Beauty

The debut album: a special selection of compositions as a studio version

Check it out now!

Now as a double CD with a detailed booklet.

„The large cast created a powerful blend based on a free sound fantasy, symphonic splendor, improvised ferocity, and lyrical bluntness.“

Stefan Pieper

Journalist,nrwjazz.net