Franz Hellmüller at the BMW Welt Jazz Award 2015
This year, six groups from Israel, Austria, the USA, Italy, France, Denmark and Switzerland will be competing for the BMW Welt Jazz Award in Munich for the seventh season. The latter includes guitarist Franz Hellmüller, a graduate of the Lucerne School of Music, and his trio.
With his latest two albums at the latest, Franz Hellmüller has earned himself the status of the most important young Swiss jazz guitarist, write the Müchner organizers. Trained at the American School of Modern Music in Paris and the Lucerne School of Music, his teachers include greats such as Dave Liebman, Frank Möbus, John Abercrombie and Kurt Rosenwinkel.
He has attracted attention alongside well-known Swiss jazz musicians such as Nat Su, Norbert Pfammatter, Tobias Preisig, Bänz Öster and Samuel Rohrer. He is now coming to BMW Welt with his virtuoso, internationally sought-after Italian accompanists Stefano Risso on bass and Marco Zanoli on drums.
The matinee series, which forms the basis for the prize, is all about the jazz guitar, with the trio of the Palestinian Michel Sajrawy, FAT - Fabulous Austrian Trio (Austria), Camila Meza Quartet (USA/Chile), the Manu Codjia Trio (France) and the Carl Mörner Ringström Majestic Orchestra (Sweden/Denmark) playing alongside Hellmüller.
