Jazz Baltica

Jazz Baltica
Genre Jazz
Dates June or July
Location(s) Timmendorfer Strand, Ostholstein, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Coordinates Coordinates: 53°59′40″N 10°46′57″E / 53.99444°N 10.78250°E / 53.99444; 10.78250
Founded by Rainer Haarmann
Attendance 17,000
Website jazzbaltica.com

Jazz Baltica is a jazz festival which, until 2011, was held every summer in Schloss Salzau (Salzau Palace) near Kiel, Germany, and the coast of the Baltic Sea. In 2012 it was moved to the Evers-Werft shipyard at the harbor of Niendorf, a Baltic Sea resort near Lübeck.

It differs from most other festivals in its intimacy and the access that visitors have to the musicians. The festival has changed its focus to feature primarily musicians from Northern Germany, Scandinavia and the Baltic countries.[1][2]

Since 2002, Jazz Baltica has been conducted as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival.[3] Until 2011 the festival's founder and musical director was Rainer Haarmann.[4] In 2012, Swedish trombonist Nils Landgren took over as artistic director. The festival takes place around the last weekend of June.

What makes this festival so unique is its intimate nature due to the relatively small concert venues, which limits the number of attendees to several thousand on any given day. This gives attendees unusually close-up access to the jazz artists. The festival starts Friday afternoon and runs through Sunday night. It concentrates on music from bebop through to contemporary jazz with a smattering of world music. Besides the concerts that require tickets, there are also free midday concerts by young local musicians and free concerts in the late evening.

Further reading

  • Haarmann, Rainer. JazzBaltica. Murmann, Hamburg 2006. ISBN 3-938017-55-4

References

  1. ↑ "All About Jazz profile". All About Jazz. Archived from the original on December 28, 2011. Retrieved March 20, 2012.
  2. ↑ The International Review of Music
  3. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
  4. ↑ Haarmann, Rainer (2006), JazzBaltica, p. 5
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