Nicole Johänntgen

The composer and saxophonist Nicole Johänntgen was born in Fischbach-Quierschied in 1981. She completed her saxophone studies in Mannheim in the field of jazz and popular music, as well as postgraduate studies in composition and arrangement. Johänntgen has won several jazz and composition competitions, including the “JTI Trier Jazz Award” and a composition competition on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Zurich jazz club “Moods.” She is also committed to the education and promotion of young European female musicians: in 2016, for example, she initiated the ongoing education program “SOFIA – Support Of Female Improvising Artists” and in the same year became head of the Youth and Music Division of the Federal Office of Culture. In 2015, she founded the “Kids Jazz Club” to offer children an introduction to the world of improvisation.