Nils Wogram honored with Trier Jazz Award
Zurich-based trombonist Nils Wogram will be honored with the JTI Trier Jazz Award 2023. The award will be presented at the Mosel Music Festival in Trier.
The composer and jazz trombonist Nils Wogram was born in Braunschweig in 1972. He studied in New York and at the Cologne University of Music. He founded his own label NWOG Records in 2010. He has been a lecturer in jazz studies at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts since 2004. He was awarded a Swiss Music Prize in 2021.
The Moselle Music Festival is an annual international music festival in the Moselle region. The concerts take place in Bernkastel-Kues, as well as in cities such as Trier and Koblenz. The program focuses on chamber music as well as classical, romantic and modern orchestral music, baroque and vocal concerts. Artists from the fields of jazz, swing and chanson also have a home at the Moselle Music Festival. The JTI Trier Jazz Award is endowed with 10,000 euros.
