"Christian Broecking Award for Arts Education 2023" goes to Terri Lyne CarringtonEnjoy Jazz introduces its own music award for the festival's 25th anniversary: The "Christian Broecking Award for Arts Education 2023" goes to Terri Lyne Carrington

The “Christian Broecking Award for Arts Education” is the new music award of the Enjoy Jazz Festivals. It is intended to honour people who understand and live music not only as an important art form, but also as a social responsibility. People who create a universal, egalitarian and liberal language out of the wordlessness of music without refraining from naming it. People who understand, create or convey music as a proactive soundtrack to contemporary history. People who, in harmony with art and especially with music, take responsibility for their time and its history. People who make art and especially music recognizable and available as a super instrument of respect and freedom in equality.

The “Christian Broecking Award for Arts Education” is awarded annually during the Enjoy Jazz Festival to an outstanding personality from the arts or art education – in the spirit of its namesake, the music sociologist, publicist and publisher Christian Broecking (1957-2021), who is closely associated with the festival.

Broecking taught musicology and music journalism in Frankfurt am Main, Heidelberg and Berlin, as well as jazz history at the Institute for Contemporary Music in Winterthur. He has served as a jazz juror for the “German Record Critics’ Prize”, among other things. Broecking curated and directed two highly regarded international conferences for the Enjoy Jazz Festival: "Lost in Diversity - A Transatlantic Dialogue on the Social Relevance of Jazz" and "Vision, Perception, Friction: How Jazz Became Art and Attack(ed) - A Transatlantic Dialogue", both in collaboration with the Heidelberg Center for American Studies. His most important publications include a biography of the pianist and activist Irène Schweizer and "Respect! The History of Fire Music".

The "Christian Broecking Award for Arts Education" is endowed with prize money of 10,000 euros, provided by the Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation. The members of the 2023 jury are:

Aida Baghernejad (cultural journalist and blogger)
Matthias Brandt (actor)
Maxi Broecking (cultural journalist and publisher)
Sarah Johnson (Director Weill Music Institute, Chief Education Officer at Carnegie Hall, NYC)
Rainer Kern (founder and artistic director Enjoy Jazz )
Prof. George Lewis (composer and professor at Columbia University, NYC)

Terri Lyne Carrington, 25th Artist in Residence Enjoy Jazz Festival, will personally accept the award on October 29th as part of her multimedia concert "Seen/Unseen", developed together with the visual arts artist Mickalene Thomas. The concert is a European premiere.