Eva Kruse (born 16 October 1978) is a German

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musician (

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) and composer.

Biography

Kruse was raised in Brunsbek in

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. In her childhood and youth, she received eleven years of classical piano lessons and at the age of fourteen, at the suggestion of a teacher, began to learn the bass guitar. She played in the school big band and the ''Bargteheider Vorstadtkrokodilen''. After she was admitted to the Landesjugend-Jazz-Orchester Schleswig-Holstein at the age of 18, she decided to switch to upright bass. In 1998 Kruse moved to

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, to study at the

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with Sigi Busch,

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and David Friedman with the double bass as the main instrument "Jazz / Improvisation". Her technical playing on double bass she refined in 2000 during a semester abroad in

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. She also took courses with John Taylor, who encouraged her to write her own compositions for various occupations. Her musical role models on the double bass include

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and Anders Jormin. Eva_kruse

During her studies Kruse played smaller tours with the ''April Light Orchestra'' and the ''

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'' from Weilheim and from 1998 to 2000 under

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in BuJazzO. While at BuJazzO and studying in Berlin, she met pianist

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and drummer Eric Schaefer. They played together since 2002 and founded the trio m This was followed by concert tours, festival appearances and the release of a total of four CDs. In 2009 they were awarded the ''BMW Welt Jazz Award'', in 2011 the New German Jazz Award. Together with Eric Schaefer and the guitarist

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she played in the ''Arne Jansen Trio''. From this collaboration, the album ''My Tree'' und ''Younger Than That Now'' was released. She also plays with Arne Jansen, Niels Klein and Nils Tegen in the quartet ''Firomanum'', as well as in the Berlin pop / jazz / electronic band ''SOAP''. Kruse has a special relationship to the Schleswig-Holstein festival ''

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''. She worked there often at the opening concert and played u. a. with '' m', ''Firomanum'', saxophonist

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, and the ''Jazz Baltica Ensemble'' under the direction of Johannes Enders. There she also met the Swedish trombonist Nils Landgren who invited her to various projects. So she worked among others in his ensemble ''New Eyes on Bach'' founded in 2007, and accompanied him on his annual ''Christmas with My Friends'' tour. In recent years, she led her own groups, which receive an unusual timbre by the juxtaposition of oboe and soprano saxophone.

Honors

* In 2011 and 2013 she was awarded the

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(''Ensemble of the year national'') with the trio mPreisträger des ECHO Jazz 2011
/ref> * Kruse also received Echo Jazz as best bassist (national) in 2015 and 2017 for her albums ''In Water'' and ''On the Mo''.

Discography

* Firomanum: ''Firomanum'' (schönerhören, 2003) * m ''Call It m' ( ACT, 2005) * Young Friends: ''The Great German Songbook'' (ACT, 2005, with Axel Schlosser, Florian Trübsbach, Johannes Lauer, Michael Wollny, Eric Schaefer) * Firomanum: ''Scope'' (Traumton, 2006) * SOAP: ''busca busca!'' (Height Mansion Productions 2007, with Hendrik Stiller, Lars Dieterich, Pelle Hinrichsen) * Bunky Green: ''The Salzau Quartett Live at Jazz Baltica'' (Traumton, 2008) * Arne Jansen Trio: ''Younger Than That Now'' (Traumton/INDIGO, 2008) * Wollny / Kruse / Schaefer: '' mlive'' (ACT, 2010) * ''In Water'' (Redhorn Records, 2014, Tjadina Würdinger, Uwe Steinmetz,

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, Christian Jormin) * ''On the Mo'' (Redhorn Records, 2016, with Tjadina Würdinger, Uwe Steinmetz, Christian Jormin, Eric Schaefer)

References

External links

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, 29 May 2015 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kruse, Eva 1978 births Living people German jazz double-bassists Jazz bass guitarists German jazz composers Jazz double-bassists Musicians from Hamburg 21st-century double-bassists 21st-century bass guitarists Women double-bassists Women bass guitarists 21st-century German musicians 21st-century women musicians