Matthieu Mazué Trio wins JazzBeet competition
The Matthieu Mazué Trio honors Ludwig van Beethoven in a unique way and wins the international competition of the Bonn Jazz Festival. The band members studied at the HKB and the ZHdK.
According to a statement from the Bern University of the Arts (HKB), two conditions had to be met in order to take part in the JazzBeet competition in Bonn: The trio members had to be under the age of 27 and develop a composition based on a work by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Matthieu Mazué's trio won over the judges during the ten-hour jury session. Matthieu Mazué and Michael Cina, who studied at the HKB, and Xaver Rüegg, who studied at the ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts), can look forward to prize money and a live performance at one of the upcoming concerts at the Bonn Jazz Festival.
The jury member Ulrich Stock on the winners: "A trio with outstanding interaction between equal players, powerful without lacking sensitivity, contemporary in its aesthetics, with a refreshing courage to take risks. Transparent and dense, sometimes poetic, sometimes mysterious, and with the gift of calmly developing tension. Complex, but not over the top. We thought it was great."
