Frederika Krier

Biography

FREDERIKA KRIER is a Grammy Award winning German-Romanian electric and acoustic multi-style violinist based in NYC specializing in improvised music.
Frederika Krier was born in Timisoara/Romania and grew up in in Forchheim (Bavaria/Germany). She got her first classical violin lesson at the age of 7, studied among others with Silvia Reichhardt (EMI Erlangen) and took lessons with Uwe Haiberg (UdK Berlin). She started to play early in regional orchestras as concert master and soloist. She also played in many bands of different music styles (folk, gypsy swing, funk, soul, latin, hard rock,...) and took part in musical and film productions.
At the age of 18 she discovered the jazz world at a workshop with jazz violinist Jörg Widmoser (modern string quartett). Regular lessons with him followed along with workshops with Mic Öchsner, Peter o'Mara, Gregor Hübner, Mark Feldman and Barry Harris. After studying ethnomusicology she entered the jazz department of the UdK Berlin, now Jazz Institut Berlin (JIB), and studied there with musicians like Jerry Granelli, Peter Weniger, Chris Dahlgren, David Friedman, John Hollenbeck and Kurt Rosenwinkel. She leads her own bands (Frederika Krier Quartett/Berlin and Molecular Vibrations/NYC) and is coleader of Laghima (duo violin/live electronics with Gian Luigi Diana) and "Kus& Rika" (duo violin/beatbox with French Actor and Musician Markus aka Marc Ruchmann).
She toured extensively with famous Danish singer Gitte Haenning and her Orchestra. Furthermore she recorded with Kurt Rosenwinkel(Caipi), Reign of Kindo, Nabate Isles, Abdoulaye Alhassane, Jojo Kuo (Fela Kuti) etc and worked with Akua Dixon, Regina Carter, Carla Patullo, Martha Mooke and the Scorchio Quartet, Philip Glass, Rita Wilson, Phoebe Bridgers, The Patti Smith Band, Dennis Davis (David Bowie, George Benson), Jim Cammack (Ahmad Jamal), Francis Mbappe, Mamadou Ba (Harry Belafonte, Leni Stern, KJ Dehnherdt), Juini Booth (Sun Ra Arkestra), Frank Lacy, Karl Berger, among many others. She did 2 US tours with Bollywood Superstar Arijit Singh and was invited as a guest on stage by Richard Bona, Gregory Porter and guest stars every now and then with the legendary Family Stone with whom she also opened for stars like Chaka Khan.
Frederika Krier tours internationally and released several CD's:
"Devoted" with Frederika Krier Quartett
"Laghima" with Laghima,
"Out of Frame" with Kus & Rika
Numerous CD releases as a side musician.