All student tickets for the 29th Belgrade Jazz Festival sold out!
In completing its mission to make quality programmes affordable to the Belgrade and Serbian youth, the Belgrade Youth Centre provided a limited number of tickets for the 29th Belgrade Jazz Festival, at a special price of 100 dinars for school and university students. All 100 tickets for the opening ceremony in Sava Centre (concerts by Cassandra Wilson and trio Harriet Tubman, Big Band RTS and their special guest Bert Joris) were sold out in a matter of few days, as were the additional 20 tickets reserved for each of the concerts on the main repertoire.
We are extremely pleased to see that our youth has recognised and taken this unique opportunity to see the biggest jazz stars live and learn of the new up-and-coming jazz artists. We would like to remind all school and university students who purchased their tickets at this discounted price to show their student IDs to the ticket person before entering the concert hall.
This year, the Belgrade Youth Centre continues to ensure that jazz fans have an opportunity to see and hear the world’s and home’s best performers at highly affordable prices. The tickets have been selling fast, so we advise our audience to buy their tickets before they sell out. You can do so on-line or at the Belgrade Youth Centre ticket desk or from any of the EVENTIM ticket offices. There is a limited number of ticket sets for the main repertoire at a promotional price of 4,500 dinars for 10 concerts available for purchase only at the Belgrade Youth Centre ticket desk. Standard ticket prices range from 600 to 2,200 dinars.
During the 29th Belgrade Jazz Festival, the audience will see more than 15 concerts of the most popular jazz artists from the USA, Europe and Serbia. After the ceremonial opening in Sava Centre, all other concerts will be held at the Belgrade Youth Centre venue.
The Festival will host one of the biggest names of contemporary jazz Vijay Iyer who will perform with his trio, the legendary saxophonist Lee Konitz, the founder of cool jazz (together with Miles Davis and Lennie Tristano) and one of the last active heroes of the golden jazz 1950s decade. The audience will also have a chance to meet many other fantastic musicians with contemporary European jazz tendencies: the Swedish bassist Lars Danielsson who mixes Scandinavian and Eastern folklore with jazz and classical music, to be accompanied by pianist Yaron Herman, who is no stranger to Belgrade audience. Another great performance of the line-up can be expected from Nik Bärtsch’s Swiss zen-funk quartet Ronin whose specialty of lies in the incorporated elements of disparate musical worlds, be they jazz, funk, acoustic rock, modern classical music and sounds from Japanese ritual music. Also to perform is the new Israeli jazz hero, pianist Shai Maestro, whose music follows the ideas of Avishai Cohen, with whom he held an unforgettable concert at the Ilija M. Kolarac Foundation back in 2007. The young stars of Italian jazz Gianluca Petrella and Giovanni Guidi will also be returning to Belgrade after the fantastic concert they gave with Enrico Rava’s quintet in 2010. The Festival will also include performances of the leading Dutch jazz musician, saxophonist Yuri Honing and the Polish piano master Leszek Możdżer, with a jazzy take on Chopin’s and Komeda’s work. Coming from Portugal, we have Júlio Resende and Maria João with their world premier of new combinations of jazz and fado. Last, but not least to mention from the list of guaranteed fantastic performances by our foreign guests are the German pianist Julia Hülsmann, who will be performing with the young British master of the jazz trumpet Tom Arthurs.
All the Faces of Jazz would not be a complete spectacle without our very own artists’ contributions, namely, a bold original project to be presented by Ana Sofrenović in an avant-garde, yet communicative expression; a collaboration between the Serbian born American Alma Mićić and guitar player Doug Wamble; and the presentation of the most talented Serbian bands in public opinion—Eyot from Niš and Fish in Oil from Belgrade.
