BIO
FABIA MANTWILL is a Berlin-based saxophonist, vocalist and composer with an international focus. She has been gaining increasing recognition as an important young German contemporary composer and musician with her own message. 
 
Fabia has been written for the Metropole Orkest (NL) feat. Becca Stevens and conducted by Vince Mendoza. 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. 
In 2017 she was selected for the International Workshop for Jazz and Creative Music at Banff Centre Canada, curated by Vijay Iyer and Tyshawn Sorey. In 2016 she received the Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead Residency by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C.
 
Fabia’s work as bandleader and composer bridges several distinct musical worlds, from jazz to folk and classical music. One of the projects in which she is featured combining her many talents is the Fabia Mantwill Orchestra.
  
Musical highlights include concerts at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and the Apollo Theater in New York City, as well as festivals and tours in China, India, Brazil, West Africa, Canada, USA and Europe. 

She has performed with the Metropole Orkest Academy 2016 in Hilversum (NL) and was a member of the LaJJazzO Brandenburg, conducted by Jiggs Whigham. In summer 2015, she led a two-months music program in Accra, training Ghanaian musicians and actors.
 
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.
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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)​
LINKS

Get to know more about her musical work as a bandleader here
Listen to her music here
Watch the latest video releases here
MUSICAL HIGHLIGHTS (excerpt)
2019
  • Curator and Founder of the interdisciplinary art- and concert series ART.IST 
  • several concerts with the Fabia Mantwill Orchestra
  • 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
  • Talent of the year 2011  by the  "Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung"
  • journalist for the music magazine Crossover
  • 1. awardee @ Jugend Jazzt  (regional, national and nationwide)
RELEASES
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Planet 9 (CD)
​betont, 2017
​
compositions about human rights,
​feminism and gender equality 
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Yello - Live in Berlin
(DVD & Blue-ray)​
Universal Music Group, 2017
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Yello - Live in Berlin (CD)
Universal Music Group, 2017