Master-Jam Jazz Fest 2013 Grand Prix Winners

 The jury has concluded that the Grand Prix was awarded not only for professionalism and talent, but also for whose performance became a phenomenon of jazz life. The winner of the Grand Prix of the First International Festival-Contest of Jazz Improvisation «Master-Jam Fest 2013» became the 9-year-old prodigy from Indonesia Joey Alexander Sila.


Master-Jam Jazz Fest 2013 Winners

Among the participants there were performers on different instruments, representatives of various creative manners and styles, so in some categories there were two winners:

Piano Alexis Bosch, Cuba, Havana and Alexey Petukhov, Ukraine, Odessa

Bass Ruben Ramos Medina, Panama

Percussion Yissy Garcia, Cuba, Havana

Saxophone Hernan Jay Rodriguez, USA, New York and Oleg Velikanov, Russia, Rostov-on-Don

Trumpet Roberto Garcia, Cuba, Havana and Dominik Fuss, Austria, Vienna

Trombone Moran Baron, Israel, Ma’agan Michael and Odei Al-Magut, Netherlands, Amsterdam).

Guitar Meir Ben Michael, Israel, Tel-Aviv and George Stavroulakis, Greece, Athens

Vocals Tamara Lukasheva, Ukraine, Odessa

Ethnic and Other Instruments (each finalist awarded):
harmonica — Boris Plotnikov, Russia, Yekaterinburg;
percussion (darbuka) — Wissam Arram, Israel, North Haifa;
flute — Nelly Manukian, Armenia, Yerevan;


Master-Jam Jazz Fest 2013 People’s Online and Offline Choice Award Winners

The winner of the People’s Choice Award became Gregory Boyd, Denmark, Aarhus.

In parallel with the jury polling, which determined the finalists, Internet-audience polling tooke place online for the People’s Online Choice Award. Anyone of online participants could get this prize, even if he/she did not become a finalist. By the Online audience polling the saxophonist Juozas Kuraitis (Lithuania) get this prize.


 During festival days the presentation of the art-project «The Sixties» by Vladimir Tarasov (artist, percussionist, composer, conductor) in Odessa Museum of Contemporary Art was held.

And in June 9 three workshops of three Master-Jam Fest participants were held. There were workshops by the American saxophonist, flutist and clarinetist, twice nominated for Grammy in the category of «the best jazz solo», Hernan Jay Rodriguez (USA), the leading Israeli percussionist (darbuka) Wissam Arram and the most virtuosic player on harmonica in Russia Boris Plotnikov.
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