Munich. In the last two decades, female jazz
musicians are significantly on the rise. Two of these successful
female musicians will close the cost-free, sought after matinees of
this year’s BMW Welt Jazz Award. Linda May Han Oh will present on
March 5th songs of her record released in 2013, “Sun
Pictures”, while Eva Kruse is playing on March 12th “On the
Mo”, the first programme with her new band. The BMW Welt Jazz Award
jury will pick after the sixth matinee two ensembles, which will face
each other in the finale at the beginning of May, while the audience
is free to decide their very own favorite’s prize in the ninth season.
In its fifth round, “Amazing Bass” will be interpreted by
Linda May Han Oh on March
5th, who is no stranger to faithful members of the
BMW Welt Jazz Award audience. In 2015, she supported guitarist and
singer Camila Meza. The daughter of Malaysian immigrants in
West-Australia has been living in New York, the Mecca of Jazz, since
2008 and has won many newcomer’s competitions (including the ASCAP
Young Jazz Composer‘s Award 2008) as well as scholarships in the USA.
Oh will present with saxophonist Ben Wendel, guitarist Matthew Stevens
and drummer Rudy Royston her third album “Sun Pictures”.
Eva Kruse is also returning to BMW Welt on
March 12th. Here she won the first BMW
Welt Jazz Award in 2009 alongside Michael Wollny and Eric Schaefer as
trio [em]. After her parental leave, Kruse moved to Sweden, played
with star trombonist Nils Landgren and finally brought her very own
projects to fruition. Following “In Water”, which won the ECHO Jazz,
she will present her new programme “On the Mo” at BMW Welt. Arranged
for a quintet, its qualities are the result of a somewhat unusual
orchestration: Eric Schaefer on the drums, Christian Jormin on the
piano, Uwe Steinmetz on the saxophone and Tjadina Wake-Walker on the oboe.
Programme of BMW Welt Jazz
Award 2017
Matinees: 11 am to c.1:30 pm at the double-coned structure of
BMW Welt:
January 22, 2017 Chris Minh Doky New Nordic Jazz
February 5, 2017 Lars Danielsson plays Liberetto feat.
Grégory Privat
February 12, 2017 Henning Sieverts´ Symmethree
February 19, 2017 Rauned Garcia-Fons: Revoir Paris
March 5, 2017 Linda Oh: Sun Pictures
March 12, 2017 Eva Kruse: On the Mo
Admission is free of charge but seating is limited. Tickets are
subject to availability. Doors open at 10:30 am.
Grand finale at the auditorium of BMW Welt at 7 pm
May 6, 2017 Final concert featuring the two by the jury
nominated finalists
Tickets for the grand finale on May 6, 2017, are available from
January 22, 2017, on at BMW Welt and München Ticket.
As in previous years, the programme will be hosted by Beate Sampson,
jazz expert and editor at the German broadcasting station BR-KLASSIK.
Jury
The distinguished panel of expert jurors will be headed by
Oliver Hochkeppel (journalist for music and
cultural affairs at the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung) and will
include the following members:
Roland Spiegel, editor at the music desk and jazz
expert at the German broadcasting station Bayerischer Rundfunk BR‑KLASSIK;
Andreas Kolb, editor-in-chief of the magazines
JazzZeitung 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 the BMW Welt Jazz Award will once again enjoy the
generous support of BR-KLASSIK, nmz, nmz-online and JazzZeitung.de as
well as resort Schloss Elmau and the Department of Cultural Affairs of
the city of Munich.
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