Biography
Formal education
A-levels in English, French and History, special level in English Literature. Before matriculation at the University of Liverpool, reading English Language and Literature and Linguistics, one year in Switzerland and Munich to learn German.
Matriculation at the University of Munich, reading Teaching English as a Foreign Language and Music
Lehramtspruefung graduation (German equivalent of Bachelor of Education), post-graduate course in Linguistics and Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Musical training
Continued musical and vocal training with the Langley Park and Heinrich Schutz Choir, London.
From the age of 10 piano lessons with the now world famous harpsichord player, Trevor Pinnock.
vocal training with Dimi Palos
vocal training with Isa Hofmann de Boer
Contribution to arts scene
Founding member of the sextet "Old Socks New Shoes" (standards rearranged)
engagements with the old masters Paul Kuhn, Hugo Strasser, Freddie Brocksieper
Engagements as studio speaker for radio, TV, commercials and dubbing
Proprietress of her own jazz club in Munich-Schwabing "Jenny's Place"
Engagements with international jazz stars such as Benny Bailey, Dusko Goykovich, Al Grey and many more.
Cultural award for performing arts from the Arts Council of Munich
Member as lyricist of Germany royalties organisation GEMA
Organisation of the Munich Jazz Musicians Initiative festivals
Jazz vocal teacher
Collaboration in the development and execution of the 1st German "Hennessy Jazz Search"
Member of the authors' group "Munich Writers"
Excerpt from novel in the writers' journal "Another Country"
Chairperson of the authors' group "Munich Writers"
Contribution to the Festschrift on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Music Library, Munich
Head of workshop for jazz singing
Winner of the Schwabinger Arts Prize Award
Radio and TV shows
live radio broadcast, Eintritt frei im Studio 2, Bavarian Broadcasting
BR-TV feature with the group Old socks New Shoes
live radio broadcast, BR-Jazz-club
TV broadcast Jazz in Jenny's Place
Presenter of TV-programme on the famous exhibition in Darmstadt Jazz, the Music of the 20th Century
live radio broadcast, concert with the Hugo Strasser Big Band
- TV broadcast, 3 Sat Jazz Club
radio broadcast, concert with the Big Band Radio Leipzig
TV special "Women in Jazz",
ZDF Mona Lisa
BR live radio broadcast Buehne frei im Studio 2 special guest Gianni Basso
- SWR-1 Hot Jazz Festival, TV-live recording
- BR live radio broadcast of open-air concert Swing is Back
- TV broadcast SWR-1 Hot Jazz Festival
45 minute TV interview special BR-Alpha
tv-recording concert, Tchaikovsky Hall, Moscow
Radio recording with the Romanian Radio Bigband for the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) in Bucharest
TV-Munich „Club der Köchinnen“
TV-Munich Christmas Special „Beauty Spion“
BR live radio broadcast of Peter Kreuder concert
45 minute TV Portrait Bayerisches Fernsehen "Lebenslinien - Jenny"
Muenchen-TV special
The Voice Senior semifinal
Tours and festivals
jazz festival Szeged
jazz festival Belgrade
concerts in Tokyo
jazz festival Eindhoven NL
J.I.M.-jazz festival, Munich
concert tour of north-east Russia
jazz festival Kemptener Jazzfrühling
- jazz festival Burghausen
- Lebanon
- SWR-1 Hot Jazz Festival
- festival Hochschloß Pähl
Portugal
Allgäuer Jazz Meeting
Moscow, Tchaikowski Hall jubilee festival
Aidlinger Jazztage
Jazzcruise Ostsee
Diessen K7 Jazzsomme
Bigband Concert Romania
Istanbul St. Gallen, Switzerland
Jazzcruise Black Sea
Specials
(in each case the year of the first performance)
"George Gershwin Special"
"The Irving Berlin Songbook"
"25 Years of The Beatles"
"The Cole Porter Songbook"
"The Walt Disney Collection"
"Christmas Songs"
"Spring Is Here"
"The European Songbook"
"Lunar Tunes" songs about the moon
"Summer Songs"
"Songs of Autumn"
"A New Peter Kreuder Songbook"
"The Four Seasons Of Love"
"Be What You Want To"
"Even Without You"
"Songs Of Parting"
Appearances as an actress on television, radio and on stage
Jeanne in Anouilhs The Lark, the Virgin Mary in a BBC production of a set of Miracle Plays.
Since 1977 employment as a dubbing and voice-over actress for advertising,
the female lead in Willy Russel’s stage play Educating Rita
female lead in TV-detective series Tatort Goetz George.
female lead in Willy Russels Blood Brothers in the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg
Bianca/Lois Lane Kiss Me Kate in the Deutsches Theater, Munich
Bianca/Lois Lane Kiss Me Kate in the Deutsches Theater, Munich
- Jo-Jo in the dance theatre production Marathon Dancing, State Theatre, Darmstadt