„Beautiful ... touched my heart!“ 
(Charles Lloyd)​
BIO
Fabia Mantwill is a Berlin-based composer, conductor and saxophonist with an international focus and an awardee of the German Jazz Prize in the category Arrangement of the Year 2021.

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, the Amsterdam Sinfonietta 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. 

Since January 2022 she is the artistic director of the Berlin Youth Jazz Orchestra.
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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.
Fabia Mantwill Orchestra
EM.PERIENCE
ENDORSEMENTS
MUSICAL HIGHLIGHTS
2024
  • Radiojazzgruppen feat. Fabia Mantwill
    @ Stockholm Jazzfestival
  • Nina Chuba - Glas Tour
  • Jazz Baltica (Fabia Mantwill Large Ensemble)
  • ISJAC Symposium in Nashville
  • Scottish National Jazz Orchestra - Nu-Age (Commissioned Arrangement)
  • Amsterdam Sinfonietta (Commissioned Arrangement)
  • Artistic Director of the Berlin Youth Jazz Orchestra 

2023
  • Metropol Orkest feat. Nai Barghouti (Commissioned Arrangement)
  • Album recoding w/ Fabia Mantwill Orchestra
  • Versailles Jazzfest (Berliner JugendJazzOrchester)
  • Jazz Composer Presents
  • Nils Landgren & friends
  • Förderung Junger Ensembleleiter:innen (Bereich: BigBand)
  • Artistic Director of the Berlin Youth Jazz Orchestra

2022
  • Artistic Director of the Berlin Youth Jazz Orchestra
  • Symphonic Jazz Night w/ China Moses, Gitte Haenning, Torsten Goods
  • Artist in Residence @ Tohatohabato Festival Madagascar
  • Jazzopen Stuttgart (Fabia Mantwill Quintet)
  • XJAZZ Berlin (Fabia Mantwill Large Ensemble)
  • 1Live Krone with Nina Chuba
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
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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
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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
  • Musical Project in Ghana 2015 "Musiker ohne Grenzen" (Goethe Institute)
  • journalist for the music magazine Crossover​
RELEASES
Fabia Mantwill Orchestra - EM.PERIENCE ​(2021)
Nils Landgren: 3 Generations
ACT (2022) 
Planet 9
​(2017)
Yello - live in Berlin
​(2016)