Tamara Lukasheva

As a composer, singer and instrumentalist, she is an artist of the highest calibre who lives and loves music in all its facets.

With her works, she creates captivating and profound soundscapes that take all listeners on an emotional journey

Her compositions are a mixture of creativity, innovation and technical sophistication. They expand the boundaries of music and explore new horizons, but Tamara Lukasheva is not only impressive as a composer.

With her extraordinary voice, which can sound both powerful and delicate, she imbues her songs with a magic all of their own. She tells stories that move us all, travelling through the world full of curiosity and with alert senses. Music is her mother tongue — and her means of processing impressions, encounters, everyday life and world events. And to create something new that in turn touches other people; across borders and musical categories.

Tamara Lukasheva was born in Odessa, Ukraine, in 1988. Between 2003 and 2007, she studied at the conservatory in Odessa, and between 2010 and 2015 at the University of Music and Dance in Cologne, where she now lives.

Current projects

Founder of many projects, she collaborated with high-level jazz musicians in Germany and abroad. Recently, she recorded and produced an album of symphony music with INSO Lviv - an international symphony orchestra Lviv, that was published at German label - Tangible music and because an Album of the Month at BR radio, Album of the week at NDR radio and nominated for a prestige prize - Deutsche Schallplattenkritik.
2023 Tamara was awarded with Silberne Stimmgabel NRW - a prize that is given for artistic, but also social public engagement. Also she has been awarded the 2021 WDR Jazzpreis (West German Broadcasting Jazz Award) in the category »composition«. In 2018 she won the Horst- and-Gretl-Will-Scholarship and thus the Cologne Jazz Award as an »exceptionally variable and imaginative musician«. In 2017, Tamara Lukasheva received the New German Jazz Prize Mannheim and in 2016, she won the Bujazzo Composition Competition.

In her solo project, she sets German and Ukrainian poetry to music.The recent project is a solo performance based on Rilke's poetry. Teaching at the Institut of Music in Osnabrücka and Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln,and giving workshops at the Open Jazz School in Cologne.

Awards

2023 - Silberne Stimmgabel NRV

2021 - WDR Jazz Prize in Kathegory Composition

2018 - Jazz Prize City Cologne ( Horst und Gretl Will Stipendium)

2017 - New German Jazz Prize Mannheim

2015 - Keep an Eye Jazz Award Amsterdam (2nd. Prize)

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