The year 2025 is the year of a new departure: a “right now!” in difficult local and global political times. And we invite the young and brilliant vibraphonist/percussionist Evi Filippou for the upcoming fall tour.
RELOADE#5 Tour Fall 2022
RELOADE#5 Tour Fall 2022
OTHER NEWS
FUCHSTHONE RELOADED #7 (2025)
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…
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.
Nov. 21th, 2025 Munich, Unterfahrt
Reloaded #7 – the FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA presents its current programme of new compositions / Tickets and advance booking…
Nov. 20th, 2025 Singen, Jazzclub
Reloaded #7 – the FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA presents its current programme of new compositions / Tickets and advance booking…
Nov. 09th, 2025 Dinslaken, Jazz Initiative
Reloaded #7 – the FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA presents its current programme of new compositions together with artist Evi Filippou / Tickets and advance booking…
Nov. 8th, 2025 Duesseldorf, Jazzschmiede
FUCHSTHONE Reloaded #7 – The FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA presents its current programme – with artist Evi Filippou_Vibraphon, Percussion / Tickets and advance booking…
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
Apr. 5th, 2025 Aachen, 20h
RELOADED #6
Klangbruecke
Tickets and advance booking
Apr. 4th, 2025 Wuppertal, 20h
RELOADED #6 at the LOCH
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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
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...
9/24 Westdeutsche Zeitung
“The FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA never lacked a grand gesture - it was both: self-confident and convincing.”
Apr. 12th, 2024 – Guest video artist Claudia Schmitz
We are inviting a guest for the first time: video artist Claudia Schmitz will be performing with us visual trigger points…
Feb. 20th, 2024 – Interview in “BRAVOO/WOOD”
WOOD magazin writes: The album “Structures & Beauty” by the Fuchsthone Orchestra is a milestone in the field of orchestral jazz…
FUCHSTHONE RELOADED #6 (2024)
Once again breaking new ground: the FUCHSTHONE Reloaded #6 programme is all about visualization, improvisation and new ensemble formats.
Nov 15th, 2024 Dortmund, Domicil 20h
Reloaded # 6. The FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA presents its current programme of new compositions together with videoartist Claudia Schmitz.
Tickets and info
Nov 14th, 2024 Cologne, Stadtgarten
Reloaded #6. The FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA presents its current programme of new compositions together with videoartist Claudia Schmitz. Tickets and …
Oct. 27th, 2024 Wuerzburg, Jazzfestival
Reloaded #6. The FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA presents its current programme of new compositions as part of the “RELOADED” concert series. Tickets and …
CD-RELEASE TOUR „STRUCTURES & BEAUTY“ (2023)
2023 was all about the presentation of the FUCHSTHONE debut album “Structures & Beauty”. There were 8 cities in Germany and abroad on the tour schedule…
Aug 31st, 2024 Wuppertal, Immanuelskirche
IMMANUEL GOES BIGBAND 2024
Current programme Reloaded #6 + Guest video artist Claudia Schmitz.
May 30th, 2024 Cologne, Stadtgarten
Reloaded #6. The FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA presents its current programme of new compositions as part of the “RELOADED” concert series. Tickets and …
Jan. 23rd, 2024 – RADIO 674 FM
At 4 pm: FUNKT-Sessionsguests today are Christina Fuchs, Caroline Thon, Eva Pöpplein talking with Dietmar Bonnen & Georg Dietzler
9/23 JazzThing
„With their debut album „Structures & Beauty“ (enja/edel), the Fuchsthone Orchestra is taking a creative inventory. Recorded in June 2022 at the Deutschlandfunk broadcasting hall in Cologne, the material was more than enough for a double CD, but not one note,...
09/23 NRZ
„The FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA captivated the audience in the Kathrin-Türks-Halle/Dinslaken with excursions into extraordinary worlds of sound.Glaciers are melting, ice masses are breaking. It cracks, it crashes with drumbeats and hissing cymbals. The compact sound layers...
09/23 Süddeutsche Zeitung
„Experienced big band masterminds have joined forces with Christina Fuchs and Caroline Thon. ‚Structures & Beauty', the title of the highly acclaimed album recently released on the Enja & Yellowbird label, captures in a nutshell what distinguishes the...
09/23 KulturZeitschrift (Österreich)
„The richness of musical ideas, the versatile compositions and the outstanding skills of the players alone would make a performance of the performance of the FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA an Eldorado for adventurous music fans. Christina Fuchs and Caroline Thon combine their...
09/23 Zeitschrift f. Kultur & Gesellschaft (Austria)
„Magnificent cinema for the ears! Listening for the first time to the eight compositions … you will be flashed by this completely unconventional ride on a musical roller coaster: such fun with experimentation and strong contrasts. This variety of moods and sound...
What times are we living in right now?!
The climate crisis, endless trouble spots, Corona, avarice, stinginess and gas price brakes…
It’ s really difficult to keep a clear head. Therefore it is a gift to be able to process and comment on all this through music.
Caroline Thon about her new compositions:
“After finishing the relatively notated composition Inside Me with the desire to write simply beautiful music, harsher and unusual sounds pushed themselves clearly into the foreground.
The highly improvisational Outside of Me depicts what is happening around us right now: the breakdown of our present certainties caused by trouble spots, climate change and pandemics.
Therefore, in my eyes, we need even more an inner voice and safety that gives confidence and a positive outlook… this is the theme of Inside Me“.
Christina Fuchs comments:
“Sometimes you just want to get away, for example fly! That is what happened on a tandem paragliding flight this summer in Switzerland. And it was so exciting that I had to write a piece about it: Thermal Winds. Or looking into the clouds like in Echo Chambers Clouds and Bubbles. But everything is ambivalent, and so these titles definitely have very different levels of meaning.”
You can hear the results of these reflections from the inner echo chambers in the FUCHSTHONE RELOADED#5 series on this year’s fall tour. Stop by!
