BMW Welt Jazz Award

The BMW Welt Jazz Award of the BMW Group is a jazz prize awarded annually since 2009 in the BMW Welt in Munich , in which the winners of an international band competition (with an annually changing motto) are honored: six ensembles join between January and March six selected Sunday matinees in the double cone of the BMW Welt; the prize will be awarded in April / May after a concert by the two finalists in the auditorium of BMW Welt. A first prize of 10,000 euros and a second prize of 5,000 euros as well as an audience award will be awarded.

The idea came up after successful jazz weeks in the winter of 2007/2008 at BMW Welt with Bernd Lhotzky , Chris Hopkins , Warren Vaché , Olaf Polziehn , Scott Hamilton and Quadro Nuevo, among others .

The jury is made up of jazz experts and those familiar with the scene. In 2017, under the chairmanship of Oliver Hochkeppel (music and culture journalist of the Süddeutsche Zeitung ), Andreas Kolb (editor-in-chief of JazzZeitung.de and neue musikzeitung ), Roland Spiegel (music editor with a focus on jazz at Bayerischer Rundfunk , BR-Klassik ), Heike Lies (musicologist) met , Music and music theater department in the cultural department of the state capital Munich ) and Christiane Böhnke-Geisse ( Unterfahrt jazz club , artistic director of the international jazz festival “ Bingen swingt ”).

In 2016, the BMW Welt Jazz Award was expanded to include an annual young talent award. With the BMW Welt Young Artist Jazz Award, BMW AG and the City of Munich specifically promote local talent from the jazz sector and, in addition to the concerts at the Munich Jazz Club Unterfahrt and at the Leipzig Jazz Days, donate prize money of 3,000 euros.

Award winners

2009: Motto The Art of Piano Trio , first prize em ( Michael Wollny , Eva Kruse , Eric Schaefer ), second prize Minsarah ( Florian Weber , Ziv Ravitz , Jeff Denson ); Participants were also Bruno Böhmer Camacho , Alboran Trio , Steve Klink Trio and Anke Helfrich
2010: Motto: Voices in Jazz , first prize Maria de Fátima , second prize Youn Sun Nah / Ulf Wakenius Duo; Participants were also Theo Bleckmann / Ben Monder Duo, Michael Schiefel and Carsten Daerr , Cécile Verny Quartet, Efrat Alony
2011: Motto Two Horns and More . First prize Nils Wogram Root 70, second prize Wanja Slavin Lotus Eaters; Participants were also Rosario Giuliani Quintet with Flavio Boltro , Matthias Spillmann mats-up, Subtone ( Magnus Schriefl tr, Malte Dürrschnabel sax, Ruben Samama b, Florian Höfner p, Peter Gall dr), Christof Lauer Trio
2012: Motto Jazz and the City : first prize Mathias Eick Quintett, second prize Agustí Fernández Trio; Participants were also Wolfgang Muthspiel Drumfree, Dan Tepfer Trio, Hoppy Kamiyama , Erik Truffaz Quartet
2013: Motto Leading Drums : first prize Ari Hoenig Quartet, second prize Samuel Rohrer / Daniel Erdmann with Frank Möbus and Vincent Courtois ; Participants were also Jim Black Trio with Elias Stemeseder and Chris Tordini , Dejan Terzic Melanoia, Alfred Vogel - The Magnificent Seven, Antonio Sánchez migration
2014 Motto Sense of Humor , first prize Hildegard learns to fly , second prize Tin Men and the Telephone; Participants were Mostly Other People Do the Killing , Stian Carstensen Farmers Market, Echoes of Swing , David Helbock Random Control
2015 motto Playing my guitar . First Prize Manu Codjia Trio, Second Prize FAT - Fabulous Austrian Trio with guitarist Alex Machacek ; Participants were also Michel Sajrawy Trio, Camila Meza Quartet (audience award), Franz Hellmüller / Stefano Risso / Marco Zanoli , and Carl Mörner Ringström Majestic Orchestra
2016: Motto Inspired by Legends , first prize Indra Rios-Moore , second prize Erika Stucky - Christy Doran - Fredy Studer - Jamaaladeen Tacuma ; Participants were Dieter Ilg , Oded Tzur Quartet, Stefano Battaglia Trio, Karl Latham - Ryan Carniaux - Mark Egan
2017: Motto Bass amazed , first prize Renaud Garcia-Fons (with Stephan Carracci drums, David Venitucci accordion): Revoir Paris, second prize Eva Kruse : On the Mo; Participants were also Chris Minh Doky & New Nordic Jazz, Lars Danielsson plays Libretto feat. Grégory Privat , Henning Sieverts : Symmethree, Linda Oh : Sun Pictures
2018: Motto Jazz moves . First prize LBT , second prize Bartolomey Bittmann - progressive strings vienna. Participants were: Jukka Eskola Soul Trio, Beady Belle , Puerta Sur (with Daniel Schläppi , Marcela Arroyo and Andreas Engler ) and Andi Pillowbecks Club Bogaloo .
2019 Maciej Obara Quartet with Dominik Wania , Ole Morten Vågan and Gard Nilssen ; Second Prize: Rudresh Mahanthappa Quintet Audience Prize: Celine Bonacina .

BMW Welt Young Artist Jazz Award

Individual evidence

[1] Press release participants 2010

[2] Jazz newspaper

[3] Press release BMW Group

[4] BMW Jazz Awards 2012 ( Memento from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

[5] BMW Welt 2013 ( Memento from July 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

[6] Jazz newspaper

[7] BMW Jazz Award 2015

[8] BMW Jazz Award 2016

[9] BMW Jazz Award 2017

[10] LBT win the final of the BMW Welt Jazz Award 2018

[11] Winner of the BMW Welt Jazz Award 2019: the Maciej Obara Quartet

[12] Josef Reßle , Munich Wiki

[13] Bassist Martin Brugger is the winner of the BMW Welt Young Artist Jazz Award 2018

[14] Singer Hannah Weiss receives the BMW Welt Young Artist Jazz Award 2019

[15] Philipp Schiepeck wins BMW Welt Young Artist Jazz Award 2020