Background
Susanne Alternate was born in Würzburg, Germany, in 1978, to Hans-Joachim and Maria Alternate.
Susanne Alternate was born in Würzburg, Germany, in 1978, to Hans-Joachim and Maria Alternate.
Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
Hans-Joachim is a composer, poet and piano teacher, and Maria is a guitar teacher. Between 1993-1995, while still in high-school, she started taking lessons in classical saxophone at the Meistersingerkonservatorium Nuremberg, and was a full-time student there during the 1995-1996 academic year. During this year Susanne began practicing in jazz music, and later that year, after winning the "Siemens-Jazz-Förderpreis" she moved to the Netherlands to continue here studies at the Hilversums Conservatorium.
(The school was later merged into the Conservatorium van Amsterdam).
Postgraduate studies brought her back to Germany, where she enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts in 2000. She formed her own ensemble, the "Susanne Alternate Quartet" in 2003, and in the following year released her debut album, Nocturne at Bimhuis, Amsterdam.
Alternate has collaborated with a number of notable musicians and ensembles. She has also toured worldwide with house DJ’s and producers such as Hardsoul Productions, Piglife, Roog, Ronald Molendijk, Marc van Dale and Erick East. Foreign several years now she has also performed with jazz DJ"s like Graham B, DJ Maestro, and Wicked Jazz Sounds.
Since 1998, she played with Rosa King, of Soulcatchers, Tribute 2 Bob Marley. BuJazzO, was a member of the Amsterdam Jazz Orchestra, played with Jamal Thomas Band, Fred Wesley and the New J.B."son