Congratulations: The Westphalia Jazz Award 2023 goes to Luise Volkmann.
The jury, consisting of Münster Festival Director Fritz Schmücker, programmer Waldo Riedl from "Domicil" in Dortmund, and Lena Jeckel from the Cultural Office Gütersloh, thus honors an artist whose experimental music currently places her among the most unique and exciting voices in German jazz.
selected i. a. by the following members of the jury:
Werner Wunderlich (Südwestfunk), Dr. Eva Küllmer (WDR / Netzwerk Jazz und improvisierte Musik), Uli Beckerhoff (Jazzmusiker), Markus Müller (Jazzthetik), Michael Klein (Programmschreiber Jazzfestival Münster / Journalist), Frank Schraven (Ex-Chefredakteur Jazzthetik), Manfred Wex (Veranstalter Jazz im Kunstverein / Musiker), Fritz Schmücker (Jazzfestival Münster), Claus Gnichwitz (WDR / HR), Michael Neumann (Münstersche Zeitung), Joachim Weis (Jazzthetik), Dr. Bernd Hoffmann (WDR Köln), Karsten Mützelfeldt (freier Journalist / WDR), Lars Motel (Fachbereichsleiter Jazz), Kornelia Vossebein (Programmchefin Bunker Ulmenwall, Bielefeld), Waldo Riedl (ProgrammchefJazzclub Domicil Dortmund), Carsten Nolte (Bunker Ulmenwall)
* Prize donator: Spedition Laarmann (namely Raimund Unkhoff) and the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der westfälischen Kulturarbeit e.V.
** Prize donator: Spedition Laarmann (namely Raimund Unkhoff)
*** Prize donator: Imorde Projekt- und Kulturberatung GmbH (namely Jens Imorde)
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