CARMEN SCHROLL

Do people ask me today how I came to jazz through this childhood desire? 

My great love of my life has always been music.

 When I was a child, my grandfather loved to listen to beautiful music when we visited on Sundays. Classical music, musicals and jazz, played on the radio and on records and we were also able to see old German revue films.

That was my world, the costumes, the revues and singing actresses: I wanted live that!

I have been singing since I was very young, joined the children's choir at an early age and had my first public performances there. I stayed in the choir for many years, where I sang enthusiastically and later also led choirs. As a teenager I learned to play the guitar and sang folk songs and accompanied myself. My professional training was, at the request of my parents, to do a decent apprenticeship in theater painting at the opera house, which was accompanied by beautiful music, stage sets and costumes. My love the world of musical theater. During this time I learned tap dancing and got closer to jazz rhythms. And I still longed to be on stage myself. I played in an independent theater group in the play "Preparadise sorry now" by R.W. Fassbider plays the main role of Mira Hindley. Then I became a mother and took parental leave. In later years I moved to the Ulm area and studied art therapy. What taught me how healing and important art and music is. After this long learning phase, I invested again in my singing training and took singing lessons at the Ulm Drama School, led by an opera singer. A few years later I took part in further training in dancing in the style of “Laban and contact dance”. At that time I intensified my stage performances and so I often attended jam sessions join in and sang . My first jazz Duo project was with a pianist in 2007. I keept very busy to sang at sessions. In 2009 I had a performance with jazz singing and piano in Isny. It was an important moment in my life when I promised myself that I would sing until the end of my days. In 2011 I moved to Berlin with my studio and reopened my holistic painting school for children, my commissioned wall painting and black light studio, with which I had previously worked as a freelance visual artist since 2001.

In Berlin I got even closer to jazz. My passion for it flared up again and even more, it meant great happiness for me.

 So I learned jazz singing largely self-taught. I continued my education, listened to a lot of jazz from all periods of jazz history, and took online vocal training to further optimize my voice. I practiced intensively every day to expand my vocal range and learned my jazz repertoire intensively and independently. In Berlin I was able to gain a variety of stage experiences with well-known musicians from the Berlin jazz scene. I call it: “the stage was my school”. In 2014 closed my Painting school and invested my energy in music and started my own concerts. In 2019 I completed speaker and microphon training  at the Coaching Company Berlin to further optimize my microphone technique and expression.

Since 2014 I have had my own vocal jazz concerts with my wonderful musician colleagues in Berlin and Bavaria and throughout Germany, with whom I play in duos, trios and ensembles.

A thank you to everyone who accompanied me!