International Jazz Prize of the Nürnberger Nachrichten
The Nürnberger Nachrichten International Jazz Prize was donated by Bruno Schnell , the newspaper's publisher.
The prize is endowed with 5000 euros and was first awarded in 1998. An expert jury, which consists of eleven members, decides on the award of the prize. A new jury is put together for each announcement of the prize. The prize was initially awarded every two years in connection with a performance by the winners at the International Jazz Festival Jazz East-West . It will now be awarded within the framework of the jazz festival to catch votes. The award is intended for
- young German / European jazz musicians or groups
- with a maximum age of 30 years (for jazz groups: average age under 30 years). It should be with the price
- a special achievement as a soloist or as a composer ,
- as a group or for a project .
Award winners
The list is still incomplete.
- 1998 Nils Wogram (trombone) and Lutz Häfner (saxophone) in equal parts.
- 2000 Jens Thomas (piano)
- 2002 Rainer Böhm (piano)
- 2007 Michael Wollny (composition, piano)
- 2009 Efrat Alony (vocals)
- 2011 Silke Eberhard (saxophone)
Web links
- Chronicle ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- International jazz prize within the scope of Voices Catch
Individual evidence
- ^ German Music Council
- ↑ Biography on the homepage of Wogram
- ^ Jazz newspaper 1998
- ↑ Jazz newspaper 2000 . After that, this was the second award.
- ↑ Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, laureate until 2009 ( memento of the original from June 29, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Nordbayern.de
- ↑ Start of votes 2011
