German Jazz Award for HKB lecturer Tanrikulu
Cansu Tanrıkulu, who teaches singing at Bern University of the Arts (HKB), has been awarded the SWR Jazz Prize 2024 with her duo partner, double bassist Nick Dunston.
The jury honored Ayse Cansu Tanrıkulu and Nick Dunston as an "extraordinary duo with impressive artistic multidimensionality and dynamic power". With playful virtuosity, the two moved between improvisation and composition, noise and folk, narrative songs and abstract sound textures. Ankara-born vocalist Ayse Cansu Tanrıkulu studied in Berlin and has been teaching at the HKB since 2023.
The SWR Jazz Prize, initiated by Joachim-Ernst Berendt, is the oldest jazz prize in Germany and will be awarded for the 44th time in 2024 by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and Südwestrundfunk. It is endowed with 15,000 euros. The last winners in 2023 were Kathrin Pechlof, harpist, 2022: Petter Eldh, bassist, 2021: Eva Klesse, drummer, 2020: Daniel Erdmann, saxophonist, 2019: Liz Kosack, keyboardist, 2018: Sebastian Gille, saxophonist, 2017: Christian Lillinger, drummer and 2016: Julia Hülsmann, pianist.
