Munich piano summer

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The Münchner Klaviersommer was a jazz and classical music festival in Munich that existed from 1981 to 2006 and is a jazz festival that took place in parallel from 1991 in the Hotel Bayerischer Hof and at several other venues and is called Jazzsommer from 2007 . The piano summer concerts took place in July, most of them in the Philharmonie am Gasteig , but also in other halls such as the Prinzregententheater , the Herkulessaal , the St. Lukas Church , the Amerikahaus , the Muffathalle etc. a. The jazz summer also takes place in July.

Munich piano summer

The concert series was initiated by Friedrich Gulda in 1981 with the idea of ​​combining jazz and classical music and mutually stimulating them. Gulda himself was not only a classical pianist, but also played jazz and came up with the idea during a performance in the Amerika-Haus in 1981. Initially only pianists were guests, later the spectrum expanded to include all kinds of instruments, groups and orchestras. Gulda appeared more often in the concert series, often mixing jazz with classical music and his own compositions and in interaction with other jazz stars.

The organizer was the concert agency LOFT Munich (Karlheinz Hein and Manfred Frei).

There are DVDs from many of the events (Eagle Rock, Pioneer, Deutsche Grammophon, Geneon, Sony, TDK, etc.), such as from Gulda and Chick Corea 1982 ( The Meeting , Arthaus). Artists like Nicolas Economou , co-initiator of the festival, Martha Argerich , Mischa Maisky , Nelson Freire , Andrei Gavrilov ; Over the years Ivo Pogorelich , Svjatoslav Richter , Gerhard Oppitz , Heinrich Schiff , Burkard Schliessmann , Dmitry Sitkovetsky , Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica, Munich Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, Thomas Quasthoff , Rodion Shchedrin , Maja Michailowna Plissezkaja and many other famous classical music stars are guests at the Munich Piano Summer. The recordings were made by Martin Wieland for Bayerischer Rundfunk, which broadcast the concerts live for over ten years .

Some highlights of the early days were:

1992 George Shearing and Bob Berg / Chick Corea / Eddie Gomez / Steve Gadd

In further years the following occurred:

1999 meant a turning point, as the city of Munich withdrew from financing at short notice due to austerity. In addition to the program funds, there was no rent assumption in the Gasteig (Philharmonie, Carl-Orff-Saal) and in the Muffathalle and the foreigner tax of 40 percent on the musicians' fees had to be paid for the now private organizers (this was not applicable to the city as the sponsor) already the off was feared. The program was saved when the head of the Bayerischer Hof Innegrit Volkhardt made the hotel's ballroom available at short notice. The cultural advisor for the city of Munich, Julian Nida-Rümelin , had announced a biennial jazz festival from the turn of the millennium, which also took place in 2000 (Jazz & More 2000).

In the following years, many stars and rising stars could be seen at the Munich Piano Summer: Maria João , Terry Riley , Steps Ahead , Branford Marsalis , Michel Camilo , Benny Green , Bill Frisell , the Kenny Barron Trio, Ray Brown , The Brecker Brothers , Robert Cray , the Ahmad Jamal Trio, Otis Taylor , Miriam Makeba , Christof Lauer , Jens Thomas , Markus Stockhausen , Max Grosch , Johannes Enders , the Max Frankl Quintet, Chris Potter , McCoy Tyner , Dave Holland with Big Band, in addition to recurring greats such as Al Jarreau , Herbie Hancock , Chick Corea , Bobby McFerrin , Gary Burton , Al di Meola , Wynton Marsalis , Larry Carlton or Scott Henderson .

The festival took place for the last time in 2006. Chick Corea, together with his band and the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie, concluded the event in the Philharmonie am Gasteig with Chick Corea's own composition “Continents”.

Jazz summer in the Hotel Bayerischer Hof

Since 1991, with the approval of LOFT, the Hotel Bayerischer Hof had also organized “Night Concerts” in its nightclub and the ballroom parallel to the concerts of the Munich piano summer, with the ballroom seating a maximum of 1,600 to 2,000 people. Until 2006 these took place under the label Münchner Klaviersommer. This concert series has been continued since 2007 under the title “Jazz Summer”. Another focus is always world music and Latin American music, often in the parties at the beginning and the end, and occasionally blues concerts. There are also photo exhibitions and film screenings on the subject of music. Outside the festival, jazz concerts are also regularly held in the hotel's night club.

The events are accompanied by exhibitions and films, and since 2008 a band of Munich jazz critics has been performing regularly (led by Wolfgang Schmid ). Musicians are given the opportunity to judge the critics in reverse. The second winner of the Kurt Maas Jazz Prize of the Munich University of Music, which has been awarded every two years since 2013, is invited to a concert.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cast lists for years in which DVDs are available can be found in David Meeker, Jazz on Screen, Online , especially the years 1982 to 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997
  2. ↑ cf. Critical to this Konrad Heidkamp , Münchner Klaviersommer: If you play for me, I'll play for you , Zeit Online, July 28, 1989
  3. ↑ Godehard Lutz: Munich Piano Summer in the Bayerischer Hof , Jazzzeitung 07/2000
  4. ^ Andreas Kolb, The piano summer stays, the jazz biennial is coming , Neue Musikzeitung, 9/1999
  5. ↑ Published regularly in the jazz newspaper.
  6. ↑ The flyers for the Munich Jazz Summer from 2007 with cast are online on the Bayerischer Hof's website for the festival, see web links
  7. ↑ Godehard Lutz: Munich Piano Summer in the Bayerischer Hof , Jazzzeitung 07/2000
  8. ↑ Münchner Klaviersommer, Jazzzeitung 07/08, 2001
  9. ↑ Michael Wüst, Why the Bayerischer Hof is now the hottest music location in town , Kultur Vollzug July 15, 2012