Buchholz was born in
Duisburg. She studied
flute, guitar, bass guitar and singing at the
Bielefeld University. She earned her first success as a bass player in the German woman jazz band
Reichlich Weiblich. Since the early 1980s she worked on various interdisciplinary projects both as performer and composer. She produced e.g.
Tap It Deep - „midified“ Steppdance and music,
Human Interactivity and
Theremin: Berlin-Moscow. At the end of the 1990s Buchholz met
Lydia Kavina, the grandniece of
Léon Theremin; later she went to Moscow and became a master student of Kavina. In jazz and contemporary music she develops new playing techniques and experiments with various sound possibilities for the theremin. Together with Kavina, in 2005 Buchholz founded the Platform ''Touch! Don't Touch!
for theremin. New compositions for the platform were worked out amongst others by Moritz Eggert, Michael Hirsch, Caspar Johannes Walter, Juliane Klein, Peter Gahn, Gordon Kampe and Sidney Corbett. Buchholz performed in a trio with Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen and live electronics performer Jan Bang, toured with Jazz Bigband Graz
in the framework of ELECTRIC POETRY & Lo-Fi Cookies'' and conducted solo performances as well. She played the theremin in various contemporary works, like
The Little Mermaid, a
ballet by
John Neumeier, music by
Lera Auerbach, and in the operas
Linkerhand by Moritz Eggert and
Bestmann-Opera by Alex Nowitz. In 2009 Buchholz participated in the talent show - the
German version of Got Talent - and succeeded in presenting the theremin to a wide audience. ==Death==