Munich. The twelfth edition of the BMW Welt Jazz
Award will be launched on January 14 and 21, 2020 at the Double Cone
of BMW Welt. A total of six free concerts given on Tuesday evenings
from January to March 2020 will see international jazz ensembles
interpret this year’s theme “The Melody at Night.” The programme will
include live performances by musicians from Norway, Germany, Poland,
Luxemburg and Italy. Following the concerts, an expert jury will
nominate two finalists to compete for the award on May 9, 2020, at the
auditorium of BMW Welt.
On January 14, the Norwegian ensemble
Cecilie Grundt Quintet will kick off this year’s
BMW Welt Jazz Award. Saxophonist Cecilie Grundt is one of the latest
discoveries of the Norwegian jazz scene. Trained in Stavanger,
Trondheim and Valencia, this 28-year-old musician founded her first
band Matrjosjka in 2016, closely followed by her quintet in 2017,
which she focusses most on. Her role models include traditional iconic
saxophonists such as Dexter Gordon, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins and
Jan Garbarek, which is why she named her debut album “Contemporary Old
School” – a humoristic nod to the inspiration that informs all her
pieces. Together with trumpeter Øyvind Mathisen, pianist Håvard
Aufles, bassist Morten Stai and drummer Åsmund Smidt, Grundt will
develop new soundscapes and melodies based on this tradition at BMW
Welt Jazz Award.
For the second concert on January 21, BMW Welt
will be host to Andrea Hermenau Quintet. For many
years, pianist, singer, percussionist and composer Andrea Hermenau has
been an integral part of Munich’s jazz scene. She performs as part of
the Etna Quartet and the Fjoralba Turku Quartet, in various ensembles
of Harald Rüschenbaum, at Jerker Kluge’s Deep Jazz, as part of trios
or, together with saxophonist Carolyn Breuer, in their own band. For
her project “Splendours of the Night” Hermenau arranged and composed
pieces that for her represent the music of the night and emphasize its
poetic qualities. Playing as part of a quintet alongside saxophonist
Till Martin, bassist Sven Faller, drummer Bastian Jütte and the
American vibraphonist Tim Collins, Hermenau creates her accomplished
harmonic piano sound, her highly developed sense of rhythm, her
passion for Southeastern European sounds and her reduced atmospheric vocals.
Programme of the BMW Welt Jazz Award 2020
Concerts from 7.00 pm to approximately 9.30 pm at the Double
Cone of BMW Welt:
January 14, 2020 Cecilie Grundt Quintet
January 21,
2020 Andrea Hermenau Quintet
February 11, 2020 Adam
Bałdych Quartet
February 18, 2020 Peter Gall
Quintet
February 25, 2020 Reis/Demuth/Wiltgen
March
10, 2020 Giovanni Guidi Quintet
The concerts are offered free of charge; however, seating is
limited and cannot be guaranteed. Doors open at 6.00 pm.
The final concert featuring the two shortlisted
finalists will be at the auditorium of BMW Welt on May 9,
2020 at 7.00 pm. Tickets will be available as of January 14,
2020, at BMW Welt and München Ticket.
This year’s events will be hosted by Hannah Weiss, winner of the
BMW Welt Young Artists Award 2019.
Jury
The distinguished panel of expert jurors, that proved successful
in previous years, will be headed by Oliver
Hochkeppel (journalist for music and cultural affairs,
Süddeutsche Zeitung) and will include the following members:
Roland Spiegel, Editor and jazz expert at German
broadcasting station Bayerischer Rundfunk BR‑KLASSIK
Andreas Kolb, Editor-in-chief of JazzZeitung.de and
neue musikzeitung
Heike Lies, Musicologist, Music and Music Theatre
Division of the Department of Cultural Affairs of the state capital Munich
Christiane Böhnke-Geisse, Artistic Director of the
international jazz festival “Bingen swingt”.
This edition of BMW Welt Jazz Award will once again enjoy the
generous support of neue Musikzeitung and the Department of Cultural
Affairs of the City of Munich. For the first time, the Munich hotel
Bayerischer Hof will be partner of BMW Welt Jazz Award and the winners
of the audience award will perform at the festival “Jazz Sommer 2020”
hosted by the hotel. In addition, the radio station egoFM will also
join the ranks of new partners and broadcastall concerts.
For further questions please contact:
Doris Fleischer
BMW Group Corporate and Intergovernmental
Affairs
Cultural Engagement
Telephone: +49 89 382 278
06
Email: Doris.Fleischer@bmw.de
Prof. Dr. Thomas Girst
BMW Group Corporate and
Intergovernmental Affairs
Head of Cultural
Engagement
Telephone: +49 89 382 247 53
Email: Thomas.Girst@bmwgroup.com
Christophe Koenig
Spokesperson BMW Brand und
Marketing
Telephone: +49 89 382 56097
Email: Christophe.Koenig@bmw.de
www.press.bmwgroup.com
Email: presse@bmw.de
About BMW Group Cultural Engagement
For almost 50 years now, the BMW Group has initiated and engaged
in over 100 cultural cooperations worldwide. The company places the
main focus of its long-term commitment on contemporary and mod- ern
art, classical music and jazz as well as architecture and design. In
1972, three large-scale paintings were created by the artist Gerhard
Richter specifically for the foyer of the BMW Group’s Munich
headquarters. Since then, artists such as Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons,
Daniel Barenboim, Jonas Kaufmann and architect Zaha Hadid have
co-operated with BMW. In 2016 and 2017, female artist Cao Fei from
China and American John Baldessari created the next two vehicles for
the BMW Art Car Collection. Besides co-initiatives, such as BMW Tate
Live, the BMW Art Journey and the “Opera for All” concerts in Berlin,
Munich, Moscow and London, the company also partners with leading
museums and art fairs as well as orchestras and opera houses around
the world. As part of its art programme “Muse”, Rolls-Royce partners
for the initiative “The Dream Commission” with two internationally
esteemed art institutions. Together with Fondation Beyeler and
Serpentine Galleries, emerging and established artists are invited to
submit a moving-image work that delivers an immersive sensory
experience. The artists are nominated and chosen by renowned
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Obrist, Cao Fei, and Theodora Vischer. BMW Group takes absolute
creative freedom in all its cultural activities for granted – as this
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