VOICES
„Beautiful ... touched my heart!“ 
(Charles Lloyd)​

​“Fabia Mantwill’s music encompasses 
the beauty of our world in a way rarely captured by contemporary musicians. 
Organic. Creative. Powerful. And Nurturing.

Her playing, writing and spirit are cut from
​the same cloth. Honest, direct and soulful.“
(Greg Cohen)​
BIO
AWARDEE of the GERMAN JAZZ PRIZE 2021
​for "Arrangement of the Year"
FABIA MANTWILL is a Berlin-based saxophonist, vocalist, composer and arranger with an international focus. She has been gaining increasing recognition as an important young German contemporary composer and musician with her own message. 

On the 'breathtaking, epic debut album' (New York Music Daily) entitled EM.PERIENCE she features her 24-piece signature chamber orchestra - the  Fabia Mantwill Orchestra - and world renowned guest soloists Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ben Wendel and Nils Landgren. The variety of voices, sounds, harmonies and instruments made the record emerge in its brilliant holistic nature. In June 2021 Fabia Mantwill was awarded with the German Jazz Prize for her arrangement of Ophelia, which is the opening track of the album.

As an arranger and composer, Fabia Mantwill has worked with Vince Mendoza, Kurt Elling, Becca Stevens, the Metropole Orchestra (NL), the National Scottish Jazz Orchestra and the Equilibrium Orchestra in Minsk, to name a few. In November 2018 her orchestra work, Sasa ndio Sasa, was premiered at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, where she was featured as a composer, conductor and soloist. 
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She received an invitation to the prestigious Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead Residency (2016) and the Banff International Workshop for Jazz & Creative Music (2017). Musical highlights include concerts at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and the Apollo Theater in New York City, as well as festivals (e.g. Elbjazz, Jazz Baltica) and tours in China, India, Brazil, West Africa, Canada, USA and Europe.

Fabia Mantwill holds a Master of Music & Composition from the HfMT Hamburg,  a Bachelor in Jazz from the Jazz-Institute Berlin and was a guest student at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in 2015.
Endorsements

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Fabia Mantwill Orchestra
EM.PERIENCE

released on
MAY 21, 2021
MUSICAL HIGHLIGHTS (excerpt)
2021
  • album release: EM.PERIENCE feat. Fabia Mantwill Orchestra, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Nils Landgren & Ben Wendel 
  • Awardee "Deutscher Jazzpreis" for "Arrangement of the Year"
  • Fabia Mantwill Orchestra @ JAZZ BALTICA
  • commission for the National Scottish Jazz Orchestra feat. Kurt Elling
  • commission for Voices of Solidarity

2020
2019
  • Curator and Founder of the interdisciplinary concert series ART.IST ​
  • ELBJAZZ Festival, Hamburg with the Fabia Mantwill Quartet feat. Ben Wendel
  • JAZZ BALTICA
  • Equilibrium Orchestra feat. Fabia Mantwill @ XJAZZ Minsk, Belarus
  • Master of Music Degree by HfMT Hamburg
2018
  • Premiere of her orchestra piece Sasa Ndio Sasa @ Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
  • Arranger for the Metropole Orkest feat. Becca Stevens, conducted by Vince Mendoza
  • Elbjazz Festival, Hamburg
  • Kurt Weill Festival, Dessau
​
2017
  • Banff International Workshop for Jazz and Creative Music @ Banff Centre Canada, curated by Vijay Iyer and Tyshawn Sorey​
  • Global Fest Helsinki (FIN)​
  • Bachelor of Arts Degree by Jazz Institute Berlin
2016
  • BETTY CARTER'S JAZZ AHEAD @ John F. Kennedy Center of The Performing Arts Washington, D.C.
  • Apollo Theatre, New York City
  • Metropole Orkest Academy (NL) with Jules Buckley
  • Jazz Stipendium by the Senate Chancellery Depatment of Cultural Affairs Berlin
  • Yello - Tour Live in Berlin
​
before 2016
  • Jody Jazz USA @ International Musikmesse in Frankfurt/Main
  • Jugendjazzorchester Brandenburg by Jiggs Whigham (2014 - 2016)
  • Movie Hits for Kids Stadthalle Zwickau 2014/15
  • journalist for the music magazine Crossover​
RELEASES
Fabia Mantwill Orchestra - EM.PERIENCE
​(2021)
Planet 9
​(2017)
Yello - live in Berlin
​(2016)