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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: Beate Sampson
Apr. 5th, 2025 Aachen, 20h
RELOADED #6
Klangbruecke
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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.
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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...
08/23 JazzPodium
„System blasters! Is this (still) jazz or simply music that doesn't care about categories? Are we listening to notes that have the potential to become system breakers? Anyone who gets involved with the good ninety minutes of Fuchsthone Orchestra will not only...
08/23 Kulturtipp CH
„The eight-part concept album alternates from a well-balanced big band set to an avantgarde stirring sound cascade and has lyrics by Greta Thunberg pop up. A multi-layered auditory movie…“
06/23 JazzThing
„Big, so beautiful. Structures & Beauty is the assertion that beauty exists…“
06/23 Jazzpodium
„…Zappa would have had a blast with it, though Carla Bley's „Escalator over the Hill“ epic could also have been the inspiration. Philosophical thinking meets musical vision here…radically fresh and exciting!“
05/23 Bonner Generalanzeiger
„Spectacular concert by the Fuchsthone Orchestra from Cologne rocked the Pantheon…certainly one of the best of the 13th Bonn Jazz Festival…“
05/23 Jazzthetik
„The debut double album of the Fuchsthone Orchestra is a large-orchestral masterpiece…Structures&Beauty unites all that can make large orchestral jazz thrilling: free and heavy grooving passages, soloists who pour their whole heart into this music, and a political...
05/23 MELODIVA online Magazin
„Structures & Beauty" is a magnificent jazz CD with depth which reminds us that we are in control of our own destiny.”
The most important heads of European large ensembles in jazz and improvised music will meet in November 2021 in Clermont Ferrand, France, for networking and a joint exchange of ideas under the motto “Think Big”.
As a “GRAND FORMAT”, the FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA team will also be there, represented by Caroline Thon.
“We are looking forward to the ideas and experiences of our colleagues from the neighbouring countries.”
