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Simone Weissenfels is one of Germany’s most versatile artists in contemporary music and improvisation. Since the 1980s she has been active in experimental, jazz, and classical music circles as an improviser, composer, organizer, and educator, working throughout Europe, North America, and Asia. In addition to her collaborations with visual artists and actors, she has performed with Gilsela May, Willi Kellers, Connie Crothers, Juini Booth, Marco Eneidi, Elliott Levin, Lol Coxhill, John Sinclair, Ian Smith, Daniel Carter and many other influential musicians. Simone has played jazz festivals in Nickelsdorf, Berlin, Leipzig, Bochum, Nanjin, Columbus (Ohio), and has toured the US, UK, Taiwan, Switzerland, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, China, Ukraine and throughout Germany. Her ensemble multiboxx perfomed at the International Festival in Nanjin, China in 2004 and she also led one of the first youth exchange projects of young Chinese and German musicians in Nanjing and Shanghai from 2006 through 2008. This international ensemble performed the premiere of her composition “lullaby for K.” in Nanjing, and also in Leipzig at the International Bach-Fest in 2008. She teaches piano at the world-famous Thomanerchor (The St. Thomas Boys Choir) in Leipzig.
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