IZABELLA EFFENBERG
Genres: Nu Jazz, Third Stream, Jazz Related Improv, Composition • Poland

Polish vibraphonist, born in 1977. from discogs Izabella Effenberg studied Jazz Mallets with Bill Molenhof and Roland Neffe at the University of music in Nuremberg. After finishing her classical percussion studies in Poland she decided to move to Germany in order to develop artistically and started her Jazz studies. She received her diploma in 2012 and finally achieved her Master  degree in 2014. Izabella is one of very few female Jazz vibraphonists in Europe and the first from Poland. During her studies in Poland and Germany, she received various scholarships and won several prizes in competitions both for performance and composition. She played with different well known musicians such as Tony Lakatos, Leszek Zadlo, Nippy Noya, Steffen Schorn, Norbert Nagel, to name a few. Besides her career as Vibraphon soloist and Bandleader, she started to write and arrange her own music for different bands in a variety of musical read more...