JTI Trier Jazz Award for Nicole Johänntgen
Jazz saxophonist Nicole Johänntgen, who lives and works in Zurich, will receive the Japan Tobacco International Jazz Award 2015 (JTI Trier Jazz Award) at the Mosel Music Festival on August 29, 2015. She will also receive a six-month studio scholarship from the Popkredit of the City of Zurich in New York.
The JTI Trier Jazz Award is being presented to her because she is "an outstanding musician over and above her extensive commitment, for example with the SOFIA (Support of Female Improvising Artists) program", writes a spokesperson for the musician. Thanks to a grant from the City of Zurich's Popkredit program, she will be able to work in New York for six months in 2016 as part of a studio residency.
Johänntgen studied saxophone and composition in jazz/popular music in Mannheim and has lived as a freelance musician in Zurich since 2005. She teaches at the music schools in Urdorf and Oetwil an der Limmat in the canton of Zurich. She also runs workshops for amateur musicians and travels from country to country as a SOFIA ambassador, playing concerts in Switzerland and abroad and giving lectures on self-management.
