Tamara Lukasheva

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Tamara Lukasheva
(2015 at ARTheater Cologne)

Tamara Lukasheva (born April 16, 1988 in Odessa , Ukraine ) is a Ukrainian jazz musician ( vocals , piano ). She is considered "one of the most promising jazz singers of the young generation."

Live and act

Tamara Lukasheva comes from a family of musicians: her mother is a pianist in classical music and her father plays the saxophone in jazz. Lukasheva studied at the Conservatory in Odessa between 2003 and 2007, and at the Cologne University of Music and Dance between 2010 and 2015 . She performed as a soprano in opera houses in Ukraine and was a soloist in a big band led by Nikolay Goloshapov for five years. With the pianist Roxsane Smirnova she founded the Horizon Duo , which recorded an album in 2011. She performed at the International Jazz Festival Jazz-Carnival in Odessa, the International Festival Varna's Summer in Bulgaria and the Festival Jazz Koktebel , which she opened in 2009.

Lukasheva moved to Cologne in 2010 and founded her quartet there with Sebastian Scobel , Jakob Kühnemann and Dominik Mahnig . In 2012 and 2013 she was part of the Bujazzo , with whom she also recorded ( 25 ). She also worked with musicians such as Matthias Schriefl , Bodek Janke (with whom she also performed with the WDR Big Band Cologne in 2013 ), Paul Hubweber & Jens Düppe (in the Half Camouflage project ) and Marc Brenken . Lukasheva toured not only in Ukraine (where she performed with her quartet at the Alfa Jazz Fest in 2017 ) and in Germany, but also in Bulgaria, Hungary (with the collective Sung Sound ), Poland and Central America. In 2015 she also founded the Gender Balance Band with Filippa Gojo , Reza Askari and Dierk Peters . She also appeared with Marie-Theres Härtel and Dee Linde as cousins ​​- the cousins ​​of Netnakisum in Germany and Austria; at the Moers Festival 2020 she was part of Luise Volkmann's Été Large . Lukasheva lives in Cologne.

Prizes and awards

Tamara Lukasheva 2015

In 2009 Lukasheva took second place in the DoDj competition on the occasion of the International Jazz Festival of Ukraine, where she performed in the Horizon Duo . She also took second place at the International Jazz Singers Competition in Moscow. In 2014 the Tamara Lukasheva Quartet won the Young German Jazz Prize Osnabrück; In 2015 the quartet came second in the Dutch competition Keep an Eye . Lukasheva is the winner of the Bujazzo Composition Competition 2016. She won the New German Jazz Prize 2017 with her quartet. In 2018 she was awarded the Horst and Gretl Will scholarship as an “exceptionally variable and imaginative musician”.

Discographic notes

Web links

Commons : Tamara Lukasheva  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short entry (Finsterwalder Singing Competition 2012) ( Memento from June 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Concert information (Philharmonie Köln) ( Memento from June 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Cousiners
  4. ↑ Appearance in Vienna
  5. ↑ 2. Young German Jazz Prize
  6. ↑ Interview - Een oorverdovend applaus en de tweede prijs!
  7. ↑ The results of the 3rd BuJazzO composition competition have been announced
  8. ^ New German Jazz Prize 2017 , ig-jazz.de, accessed July 7, 2017
  9. ↑ Horst and Gretl Will scholarship: Tamara Lukasheva (Jazzthing)
  10. ↑ Meeting (Concerto)
  11. ↑ meeting (BR-Klassik)
personal data
SURNAME Lukasheva, Tamara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian jazz musician (vocals, piano)
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa