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FORMER JURY MEMBERS

Here you can find former jury members of the German Jazz Prize:

Photo: Kasia Drozd
Niklas Alt

Owner Donau115

Nabil Atassi

“Late Night Jazz” Presenter and Author; Winner of the German Radio Prize, WDR Jazz Prize for Journalistic Achievements

Photo: Thilo Müller
Sabine Bachmann

Owner of the Skip Records label

Photo: Ana Torres
Aida Baghernejad

Freelance Cultural Journalist, Presenter and Podcaster, International Music Journalism Award 2021

Christiane Böhnke-Geisse

Artistic Director Jazz Festival Bingen Swingt, Director schwere reiter musik Munich

Photo: Frank Pusch
Frank Bolder

Program Manager North Sea Jazz Festival

Jean-Paul Bourelly

Guitarist, Producer; Curator Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) – Projects “The Backroom” and “Black Atlantic”

Anja Buchmann

Freelance Presenter, Author and Editor in the Field of Culture, Music, Jazz for Corso, DLF, WDR and BR, among others.

Photo: Arno Steinfort
Bülent Ceylan

Comedian

Photo: Michael Lionstar
Nate Chinen

Music Critic and Author

Michèle Claveau

Owner of the Music Company GLM Music

Photo: Annette Cardinale
Fola Dada

Jazz Singer, Professor of Jazz and Pop Singing at the Mannheim University of Music, Head of the Stimmwerk Singing School

Friederike Darius

Artistic Producer & Talent Development Metropole Orkest

Photo: Gregor Baron
Ulf Drechsel

Jazz Editor rbbKultur, Presenter, Author

Photo: Manuel Miethe
Silke Eberhard

Saxophonist and Composer

Michael Gottfried

Communications Manager ACT Music

Uwe Hager

Musicologist and Music Educator, Jazz Pianist and Founder of o-tone music

Tina Heine

Freelance Curator (e.g. SUPERGAU Festival), Lecturer (HfMT Hamburg), Artistic Director Jazz & The City Festival Salzburg

Photo: Nadine Heller Menzel
Pablo Held

Pianist, Composer & Podcaster

Jana Herzen

Founder, President, Recording Artist Motéma Music

Photo: Kaja Grope
Julian Hölscher

Managing Director, Artist Agent and Booker at Handshake Booking, Festival Organiser Honey Lake Sessions.

Fielding Hope

Curator Counterflows Festival Glasgow, Senior Producer Café OTO

Burkard Hopper

Artist Manager and Agent at Air Artist Agency, Organiser LetterOne RISING STARS Jazz Award

Photo: Till Brönner
Dieter Ilg

Internationally renowned Jazz Double Bass Player, three-time ECHO Jazz Award winner

Photo: Saga_Sigurdardottir
Sofia Jernberg

Swedish Jazz and Improvisation Singer

Photo: Wolfgang Siesing
Kalle Kalima

Jazz Guitarist, Composer, Lecturer at the University of Lucerne

Photo: Bogna Kociumbas
Rainer Kern

Artistic Director Enjoy Jazz Festival, Speaker of the UNESCO Cities of Music

Photo: Johanna Hilbig
Wolfram Knauer

Director of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt

Tinka Koch

Editorial Director WDR 3 Jazz & World

Nicola Kremer

Marketing/Distribution Manager ECM Records

Rabih Lahoud

Singer, Composer

Ute Lemper

Actress, Singer

Martin Laurentius

Freelance Jazz Journalist

Photo: Lisa Wassmann
Erik Leuthäuser

Vocalist, Arranger, Composer; Queer Cheer Collective

Ina Lieckfeldt

Booking Agent & Tour Promoter (Karsten Jahnke Konzertdirektion), Festival Programming (ELBJAZZ)

Photo: Ray Tarantino
Luciano Linzi

Artistic Director CASA DEL JAZZ (Rome), JAZZMI Festival (Milano)

Lyambiko

Jazz Singer

Photo: Stefanie Marcus
Stefanie Marcus

Managing Director Traumton Records, Board Member VUT

Peter Margasak

Music Journalist and Concert Presenter

Photo: Anja Limbrunner
Lena Müller

Booking Agent & Artist Manager Jazzhaus Artists / Jazzhaus Freiburg GmbH

Photo: Nils Müller
Max Mutzke

Singer, Songwriter

Photo: Katja Ruge
Akua Naru

Recording Artist, Producer, Archivist

Photo: SWR, Oliver Reuther
Julia Neupert

Jazz Editor SWR2

Angelika Niescier

Saxophonist and Composer

Photo: Jaakko Hietakangas
Matti Nives

Founder and Artistic Director of We Jazz

Catherine Nuyt

Label Manager for Distribution at Outhere Music, Nomadic Record Dealer; Radio Co-Host of Jazz Programs

Aaron Parks

Jazz Pianist and Composer

Photo: Gregor Hohenberg
Thomas Quasthoff

Opera Singer, Professor in singing

Nanna Rohlffs

Booker and founder of the maganda agency

Photo: Marco Preikschat
Kurt Rosenwinkel

Guitarist, Multi-Instrumentalist, Songwriter, Producer

Photo: Joachim Gern
Céline Rudolph

Vocalist, Composer, Professor at the Jazz Institute Berlin

Rio Sakairi

Artistic Director at “The Jazz Gallery” New York City

Photo: Anna Sturm
Beate Sampson

Music Journalist and Presenter at Bayrischer Rundfunk, Jazz Singer

Photo: Jens Oschmann
Johanna Schneider

Singer, Composer, Co-Organiser of the PENG Festival

Peter Schulze

Artistic Director jazzahead! and Sendesaal Bremen

Tobias Schuster

Founder Shoestring Jazz Booking

Photo: Jens Geothel
Sarah Seidel

Radio / Music Journalist, NDR Kultur

Darrel Sheinman

Owner / Producer Gearbox Records

Thomas Siffling

Jazz Trumpet Player and CEO of Ella & Louis Jazz Club Mannheim

Photo: Diana Seifert
Tinka Steinhoff

Booking Agent at Tinka Steinhoff Booking

Katea Stitt

Radio Program Director / Producer and Tour and Artist Manager

Photo: Olha Ruccya
Sebastian Studnitzky

Trumpeter, Pianist, Composer, Founder & Musical Director XJAZZ Festival

Victoriah Szirmai

Music Critic

Photo: Nela Koenig
Mousse T.

Music Producer, Songwriter, DJ, Grammy Nominee, Ivor Novello Award-Winner, Entrepreneur with Focus on Sustainability

Tokunbo

Jazz and Soul Singer

Photo: Kurt Rade
Jeanne-Marie Varain

Managing Director Moers Kultur GmbH/moers festival

Jolanda Vujasinovic

Artist and Concert Manager; Tambour Music Management

Bugge Wesseltoft

Jazz Musician and Pianist

Photo: Peter Hundert
Anastasia Wolkenstein

Booking Agent, Manager, Tour Promoter, Wolkenstein Agency