Phoenix Foundation 독일피닉스파운데이션 / Germany

The 20 young jazz musicians of the “Phoenix Foundation” perform musical highlights from jazz, rock, and pop music. Their repertoire includes arrangements ranging from Count Basie to Gordon Goodwin, along with jazz classics and modern compositions. The band also showcases its musical creativity by performing original compositions written and arranged by its own members.

Over the years, the orchestra has toured the USA, Korea, Brazil, South Africa, China, India, Bolivia, and Rwanda, collaborating with internationally renowned musicians such as Nils Landgren, Michael Philip Mossman, Andrea Motis, Steve Fidyk, Peter Weniger, Jiggs Whigham, Ack van Rooyen, Terell Stafford, Wayne Bergeron, Samulnori (Korean Drums).

By recognizing their own cultural roots and remaining open to new influences, the members of Phoenix Foundation continuously seek inspiration and renewal. They aim to enhance both their musical and personal skills through performance and exchange — this is the essence of the Phoenix Foundation.

Conductor Frank Reichert
Since 1997, Frank Reichert is the director of the Phoenix Foundation - All State Youth Jazz Orchestra of Rhineland-Palatinate/Germany. He carried out a variety of concert activities in Rhineland-Palatinate with the State Youth Jazz Orchestra and undertook concert tours all over the world with the young people as musical ambassadors. With profound big band know-how, pedagogical experience and organizational skills, Frank Reichert has shaped the orchestra for 25 years. With the help of its multi-layered close contacts with the national and international jazz scene, the Phoenix Foundation has been granted a unique teaching, practice and guiding culture, also through the dedicated support of top-class, internationally renowned lecturers, guest soloists and guest conductors. Frank Reichert has been active in teacher training since 1993. He has an extensive network of schools and school big bands in Rhineland-Palatinate that make up the Phoenix Foundation's pool of young musicians. Reichert's school big band "Coming Up” was the winner of the Skoda Jazz Prize for youth big bands at state level several times and was also extraordinarily successful at the national level.

List of performances

[2025-08-09]

Seongsan Jogaebadang Festival Stage

Goodwin – A few good men
Goodwin – Absoludicrous
Cruz(arr. Wasson) - Dynamite
Baylock – El abrazo
Pat Metheney(arr. Bob Curnow) - Every summer night
PSY(arr. Reichert) - Gangnam Style
Queen(arr. Lowden) - I’m still standing
Wolfgang Haffner(arr. Jörg-Achim Keller) - Keep going
A. K. Salim(arr. Salim/Sparks) - Kenya
Joe Garland(arr. Paul Lavender) - Leap frog
Berg – No Spring Chicken
Estephan(arr. Lopez) - Rhythm is gonna get you
Mars(arr. Murtha) - Runaway Baby
Motis(arr. Mossman) - Save the Orangutan
Gibbons(arr. Holmes) - Sharp dressed man
Patrick Williams – Still of the Night

[2025-08-11]

CheonJiYeon Falls Open Air Theatre

[2025-08-13]

Tapdong Seaside Concert Hall