Maxine Troglauer

Classical music, jazz, contemporary music - for Maxine Troglauer these are not genres that can be meticulously separated. They are organically interconnected resonance spaces that give the bass trombonist, who was born in Wiesbaden in 1995, the opportunity to engage in a self-confident dialogue with the past. Troglauer does not think in clichés, but recognises possibilities. Her declared aim is to free her instrument from its niche and help it to develop its own repertoire.

Composers such as Daniel Schnyder and Jonas Schoen-Philbert have written solo pieces for her that explore the bass trombone in every possible way. At the same time, she draws inspiration from a wide variety of sources: in her concerts, meditative drones stand alongside a flute sonata by C.P.E. Bach and free improvisation.

It is thanks to her uniquely broad range of experience that the musician, who graduated in 2021 with a master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music in New York, is not afraid of contact with the most diverse genres.

In fact, Troglauer is one of the very few to have played in both the Bundesjugendorchester (BJO) and the Bundesjazzorchester (BuJazzO), the two most important young German orchestras. The portfolio of the winner of the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation 2022 is correspondingly diverse, ranging from productions for NDR, BR, Deutsche Oper Berlin and the jazz label ECM to solo concerts with the Munich Symphonic Orchestra, contemporary outdoor festivals and open-air concerts with german rap artist Danger Dan. In short, nothing seems impossible when Maxine Troglauer plays bass trombone.

Josef Engels, “WELT“, “Jazzthing“, “rondo“