Max Löbner Receives the Marion Ermer Foundation's " Leipzig Jazz Young Talent Award " Award
Congratulations! Max Löbner is the winner of this year’s “Leipzig Jazz Young Talent Award ” awarded by the Marion Ermer Foundation. The prize, presented by the foundation with support from the City of Leipzig, will be awarded on October 20, 2024, as part of the 48th “ Leipziger Jazztage ” at naTo.
Following the awards ceremony on October 20, 2024, Max Löbner and his band KLSD will perform at a winners’ concert as part of the 48th Leipziger Jazztage at naTo. And we’re really looking forward to it!
The jury—comprising bassist Lisa Wulff, harpist Kathrin Pechlof, and music journalist Ulf Drechsel—awarded Max Löbner the prize not only for his exceptionally mature artistic personality:
“Jazz, rock, pop, electronic music, spoken word—he has mastered all facets of contemporary music and has developed a recognizable, unique artistic style in his musical compositions. Max Löbner’s extraordinary talent deserves the highest recognition, as well as attention and further support beyond the ‘ Leipzig Jazz Young Talent Award ’ award.”
Max Löbner (born 1999) has lived and worked in Leipzig since 2021. He grew up in a musical environment in Trossingen, studied electric guitar in Weimar and Lucerne and is currently studying at the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig. With his band "Max Löbners KLSD" (Leipzig, Cologne, Mainz), he crosses many genre boundaries between jazz, jazz-related music and improvised music. In 2022, the band won the "recording project" of 2ndFloor e.V. in a competition organized by Loft Köln. In 2024, "Max Löbners KLSD" also won the Central German Jazz Prize.
You can read the full article from the city here.
