Yvonne Moriel

Photo of Yvonne Moriel (c) Tobias Paal
Yvonne Moriel (c) Tobias Paal

BIOGRAPHY

“The jazz saxophonist is currently a hot commodity in Central Europe” writes Austrian Music Export about saxophonist & composer Yvonne Moriel. The musician grew up in Tyrol and has spent the last few years in Vienna and Zurich. She studied both classical and jazz saxophone, but has since focused on jazz, improvised and contemporary music. She can be heard with internationally successful bands like Shake Stew, renowned Swiss Jazz Orchestra or as part of Christian Muthspiel’s Orjazztra. With her project yvonne moriel :: sweetlife , founded in 2022, she combines jazz with dub, hiphop and electronic music. The individuality and artistic quality of the band quickly garnered interest. They have since been selected by Austrian Music Export as one of the most promising young jazz projects in the country, presented to a professional international audience at the Kickjazz Festival, and supported in their international concert activities.

In autumn 2024 a first EP will be released, followed by a debut-album in 2025. In 2023 she debuted with the quartet of Swiss Jazz Price winner Christoph Grab at the Leibnitz Jazzfestival and four concerts at the international Saalfelden Jazz Festival, where she performed with two of her own formations, with the Ralph Mothwurf Orchestra on the main stage and an all-star band featuring Lukas Kranzelbinder, Billy Martin, Julian Sartorius, Lukas König, Benny Omerzell, and Johannes Schleiermacher. As a member of the Porgy & Bess Stagebands of Christoph Cech and Ralph Mothwurf, Moriel can be heard there monthly from 2022-2024. Together with clarinetist Vincent Pongracz she organises the 2024 season of Vienna-based concert-series Synesthetic Wednesday where several new projects and compositions with various artists will be performed.. She also collaborates across genres with artists and bands like Franui, Ankathie Koi, Yukno, Bibiza and many more. In 2024 she was awarded with the annual SKE scholarship of austrian composers & authors union AKM and selected as one of the creative visioneers of the austrian jazz scene by Austrian Music Export.


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