Tamara Lukasheva

As a composer, singer and instrumentalist, she is an artist of the first rank 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 infuses her songs with a magic all of their own. She tells stories that move us all.
During her studies in Cologne, she formed a quartet with Sebastian Scobel (piano), Jakob Kühnemann (bass) and Dominik Mahning (drums). In 2019 Lucas Leidinger replaced Sebastian Scobel on piano and in 2022 Mathieu Clement replaced Dominik on drums.

In 2021, she founded her new trio with Laurent Derache from France on accordion and Calvin Lennig on double bass. The trio plays compositions and arrangements by her.

She is also active in several collaborations with important musicians from the European and international jazz scene.
She goes 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.

She has won numerous awards, such as the "Silberne Stimmgabel" of the NRW State Music Council in 2023 (award for special services to musical life in NRW) or the WDR Jazz Prize in the Composition category 2021.

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. She has also been a lecturer in jazz singing at the Institute of Music in Osnabrück since 2019.