“CAROLINE THON is a name to remember!” (Spiegel-online)
“We are presented here with a talented and self-confident artist who has no need of superficial glamour and who is well on the way to becoming one of the leading female voices in German jazz.” (Jazzpodium)
Caroline Thon studied classical saxophone, then spent a year at Berklee College of Music (Boston/USA), before obtaining a degree in composition and arrangement from Cologne.
In keeping with the multi-faceted nature of her training, she treads a path on the border between modern jazz, contemporary music and even rhythm’n’blues. She was commissioned
by the European Music Festival Stuttgart to arrange the “Art of Fugue” from a jazz perspective (2008). Caroline Thon and Julia Hülsmann jointly led the first composition workshop for women composers as part of the Women in Jazz festival (2011). In 2012 she
was invited by the Music Council of Saxony to direct the “Landesjugend Jazzorchester Sachsen” and was a member of the jury at the “Leipziger Jazznachwuchspreis” in 2012.
She herself has received various awards as a woman composer and instrumentalist at international
jazz competitions in the Netherlands.
In 2014 the Women in Jazz festival saw the first performance of Caroline Thon’s project “Jazz aus der eurasischen Mitte”, with musicians from Iran, Lebanon, Bulgaria, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, which under its new name of EURASIANS UNITY was awarded the
main 2015 RUTH prize at Germany’s biggest world music festival (TFF in Rudolstadt) in the summer of 2015.
2015 was also the year in which “Black&White Swan”, the second CD from the THONELINE ORCHESTRA, was released on the well-known ENJA-RECORDS/YELLOWBIRDS!
label. For further information: www.carolinethon.de
