Florian Raepke, Florian Raepke Big Band & Charlotte Illinger
Biography Florian Raepke, Florian Raepke Big Band & Charlotte Illinger
Charlotte Illinger
is a German jazz singer. At the age of 15 she started playing classical piano, saxophone and singing. After finishing school she began studying jazz singing in Enschede (Netherlands). After a year she moved to Groningen (Netherlands), where she graduated in February 2016. There she had the opportunity to take lessons and work with great American musicians such as JD Walter, Matt Wilson, Deborah Brown, Lewis Nash and Michael Mossman. Since 2013 Charlotte has been singing in the "Jugend Jazzorchester Nordrhein-Westfalen". She has already toured Ireland and Iceland with them and played several concerts throughout Germany. In February 2015 they released the CD "Triangle". She also has her own quartet, the "Charlotte Illinger Quartet", with which she plays her own compositions and arrangements of jazz standards. But her interest is not only in jazz music. Charlotte also has a project with pop musicians called “Lazou” (http://www.lazou.de) who play at local festivals and other occasions.
Florian Raepke
works as a trumpeter and arranger in Cologne.
Until 2023 he studied at the Folkwang University of the Arts with Professor Ryan Carniaux. From 2020 to 2022 Florian Raepke played as lead trumpeter in the Federal Jazz Orchestra (BuJazzO). He is still active as an arranger for big band and orchestra.
In the past, Florian Raepke has worked with the following artists and ensembles, among others:
as trumpeter:
Big Band Convention, Bill Watrous, Bundesjazzorchester (BuJazzO), Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra (CCJO), Essen Jazz Orchestra, Folkwang Jazz Orchestra, Fuchsthone Orchestra, Grand Central Orchestra, Herbert Grönemeyer, Die Höhner, JugendJazzOrchester NRW, JugendJazzOrchester Sachsen-Anhalt, Jeff Cascaro, Jürgen Grimm, Kathrine Windfeld, Ludwig Nuss, Bonn Opera, Paul Heller, Rhine Phillis Jazz Orchestra, Rundfunk Tanzorchester Ehrenfeld (RTO), Silent Explosion Orchestra, Sunday Night Orchestra, Theater Solingen
as arranger/composer:
Ansgar Striepens, BuJazzO, Charlotte Illinger, Curuba Jazz Orchestra, Folkwang Jazz Orchestra, Grand Central Orchestra, Helge Schneider, Gil Mehmert, Youth Jazz Orchestra NRW, Jürgen Grimm, Vienna Volksoper, Graz Opera, Leipzig Philharmonic, Dortmund Opera, Tom Gaebel.
