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Who should receive the Aarhus Jazz Talent Award 2024?
21/7/2024 |
Forfatter: Aarhus Jazz Festival | Fotograf: Rochelle Coote
- you can make your bid on who should receive the prestigious award
Aarhus Jazz Festival awards the Aarhus Jazz Talent Award to a great jazz talent every year. Anyone can nominate candidates for the Aarhus Jazz Talent Prize 2024 during the jazz festival year and until 1 September.
'The award is given to a person or an initiative that has made an extraordinary impression and shown a special talent in their work for jazz music in Aarhus. This can be as a musician, composer, arranger, journalist, music publisher or others who have contributed to the spread and support of jazz.'
In 2023, the award went to composer Anna Bignami. A young musician who enriches Aarhus' musical life, among other things, via the ensembles she has assembled in the city. In previous years, the recipients have been: Viktoria Holde Søndergaard, Karmen Rõivassepp, Simon Eskildsen, Erlings Jazz- & Ølbar, Malthe Jepsen.
The prize of DKK 10,000 is sponsored in 2024 by the Aarhuus Stiftstidendes Fond and is presented at a talent award concert.
Give your opinion on who should win the prestigious award by clicking here (only in Danish)
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The jazz environment in Aarhus and East Jutland has long been in a creative period, where many young jazz musicians and arrangers etc. works with exciting and innovative projects. That is why Aarhus Jazz Festival established the Aarhus Jazz Talent Prize in 2018, based on an idea from Daniel Sommer.
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