HfM Jazz Orchestra
The HfM Jazz Orchestra is the flagship of the jazz programmes. It was founded in 1996 and has since developed into one of the best orchestras in the region. Under the direction of Jörn Marcussen-Wulff, the ensemble enables students to develop their playing skills and stylistic confidence, drawing on everything from big band tradition to modern jazz orchestras.
In addition to intensive orchestra rehearsals, regular section rehearsals and sight-reading are an integral part of the ensemble's work. The HfM Jazz Orchestra also offers students the opportunity to rehearse and develop their own arrangements or compositions. Public concerts and workshops with renowned guest lecturers take place regularly.
Stylistically, the ensemble is primarily active in the contemporary music scene, between jazz and new trends. In addition, the musicians are continuously working on the repertoire of legendary big bands such as those of Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Thad Jones, as well as the music of composers such as Bob Mintzer and Bob Brookmeyer.
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Jörn Marcussen-Wulff
Artistic Teacher of Music Theory, Ear Training and Composition
Director of the Jazz Orchestra/ Large Ensemble
Hochschulzentrum am Horn
Jörn Marcussen-Wulff is an award-winning composer, arranger, trombonist and conductor from Hanover. He is a lecturer in composition, arrangement, jazz theory and big band at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar and the HMTM Hannover and is artistic director of the renowned, professional big band „Fette Hupe“ and the Hamburg State Youth Jazz Orchestra (LJJO Hamburg).
He regularly works for well-known jazz and classical ensembles (e.g. NDR-Bigband, Frankfurt Radio Bigband, Metropole Orkest, Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, Subway Jazz Orchestra, Spielvereinigung Süd, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Schauspielhaus Hannover, etc.) and is a sought-after lecturer for workshops and further training (e.g. State Academy Wolfenbüttel, YAMAHA, Film Scoring Academy of Europe, etc.).
His music represents the new zeitgeist of European big band arrangers who avoid conventions and seek and find their own musical language and expression in the jazz orchestra format. His arrangements can be found on many successful releases, most recently on the album "If you really want" by Raul Midón & the Metropole Orkest, which was nominated for a Grammy.
Jörn studied music teaching and jazz trombone in Hanover and Lucerne (Switzerland) with Ed Kröger and Nils Wogram, as well as jazz composition at the Mannheim University of Music with Jürgen Friedrich. He received composition lessons from Rainer Tempel, Bob Mintzer, Vince Mendoza, Jörg-Achim Keller and Nils Wogram and was a finalist in the Hessischer Rundfunk's "Jazzpositions 2010" composition competition, as well as a participant in the renowned Metropole Orkest Arrangers Workshop with Richard Bona and Vince Mendoza in 2013.
Furthermore he has received the composition scholarship from the state of Lower Saxony several times and is a winner of the jazzaward of the Kulturforum Schleswig-Holstein. In 2021 he received the Music Education Award for the production “Jazzcape Room” with Fette Hupe.