We are delighted to announce that Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will serve as patron of this year’s festival, the 50th Leipzig Jazz Days.

This special recognition underscores the importance of our festival and sends a strong message about the relevance of art and culture.

Below is a personal message from Frank-Walter Steinmeier:

Top-notch jazz all over Leipzig!

Always new, innovative, and surprising sounds!

Not just musical encounters with jazz legends and exciting newcomers!

Over the past 50 years, the Leipzig Jazz Festival has treated jazz fans from near and far to this time and time again, thereby making jazz history.

If you ask me: Let's keep it up!

Congratulations on the 50th edition of the Leipzig Jazz Festival—and all the best for the future!