Linda Jozefowski

Linda Jozefowski is an eclectic swiss flautist, composer and educator, exploring a vaste range of musical directions, from jazz to indian music, electronic, r'n'b, odd grooves, experimental and classical music. Her musical training with numerous teachers enabled her to discover a variety of teaching methods.

At the age of 6, after her father heared her playing the "Lambada" from ear on a piano toy, she started taking piano lessons. Her strong drive for music led her to experiment and improvise on all instruments beside the piano from a very young age. 

In 1997  she discovered and started to learn the flute by herself. One year later she enrolled at the SMuM in Lugano, where she attended improvisation courses with saxophonist Gabriele Comeglio and a jazz workshop with Giorgio Meuwly.

Linda Jozefowski obtained a Master in Jazz Performance from the Haute Ecole de Musique (HEMu), Lausanne in 2007. She studied with Mathieu Schneider and Sooa Chung  during her studies she also took lessons from Günther Wehinger (Basel), Jamie Baum (New York) and Nicola Stilo (Paris).

Fascinated by Indian Classical Music, which she discovered trough the album Shakti by John McLaughlin, in december 2009 she spent two months in India to study the Konnakol. There she attended lessons with Rama Mohar Rao and Shantala Subramanian in Madras, and bansouri with Himanshu Nanda in Bombay. This experience had a big impact on her compositions and led to her first record For My Dead Folks (Unit Records 2011). The album, featuring vibrafonist Jean-Lou Treboux, drummer Maxence Sibille and double bassist Fabien Iannone, is deeply inspired by rhythmic elements of India, but also from the music of Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis and drum'n'bass sounds.

From 2012 she regularly spend time in Berlin with the wish of opening up as an artist, playing with different people from different backgrounds, experimenting and discovering her own voice. The projects she had been involved in there, include the "Kenneth Dahl Knudsen Orchestra", "Vernon D'Hill", "Soultrash", "The Joel Holmes Greenhouse Expansion ", "J.Lamotta",  "Marcel Krömker", "Nicholas Pax", "Antonello Marafioti", aswell as her own different projects.  She where also asked to record electronic tracks for different DJ's and producers including Elbee Bad, Tikogo and others...

In 2013 Linda Jozefowski was invited to give a Master Class about indian rhythms in Madagascar, where she also played at the Madajazzcar Festival.

Beside her own band, the flutist went on stage with various line ups including Olivier Hutman, Malcolm Braff, La Velle, Reggie Jonson, Jaques Schwartz-Bart, Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), Amir ElSaffar, Niko Seibold Elfton Ensemble among others ...

She has played at X-Jazz Festival (Berlin), Madajazzcar Festival, Cully Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Café, Off Beat Festival Basel, Jazz Parade Festival of Fribourg, Festival Jazz en Revermont, Jazz Contreband Festival, Icogne Jazz Festival (CH), Jazz Festival Willisau (CH), Chorus Lausanne (CH), Hot Club de Lyon (F), AMR (CH), B-Flat Berlin (D), Schlott Berlin (D), Karnaval der Kulturen Festival Berlin (D), Werkstatt der Kulturen Berlin (D), Château Rouge (F) and many other clubs.

Her discography also includes the album Special by the singer La Velle (2010, alongside Sangoma Everett, Emyle Spanii and Mathieu Michel), the album Friends by François Lindemann (2011, with Flavio Boltro, Glenn Ferris, Guillaume Perret, Alvin Queen among others), the album We'll meet in the rain by the Kenneth Dahl Knudsen Orchestra (2016) and other productions from different genres.

Linda Jozefowski's second album FOCUS NATURAL has been recorded in 2020, during a residency at La Maison-Matrice, just before the pandemic and also in a state of pregnancy. Featuring drummer Diego Pinera, pianist Malcolm Braff, Marion Rouault on double bass and Domenic Landolf on tenor sax and bass clarinet, the new project is a mixture of modern jazz compositions and african-inspired grooves, where rhythmic experiments are the common thread of the band. The digital release was on January 20, 2023 with Unit Records.

Linda Jozefowski currently lives and works in Basel, Switzerland.