Laia Genc
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Laia Genc works as a pianist, composer, singer, teacher and project manager, primarily in the Cologne scene, where she studied jazz piano with John Taylor and Hubert Nuss, as well as spending a year abroad in Paris studying with Hervé Sellin and completing a Master of Music in jazz singing in Maastricht.
In addition to the numerous awards she has won alone or with her piano trio ‘Liaison Tonique’ at home and abroad, she is also included in the illustrious list of scholarship recipients of the Cologne Jazz Prize. In 2020, she received one of the scholarships from ‘Präsenz vor Ort – für Musikerinnen mit Kind des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen’ (Local Presence – for Female Musicians with Children in North Rhine-Westphalia), which was awarded by the Women's Cultural Office of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2023, she was awarded the Culture Promotion Prize of the Oberbergischer Kreis.
Always searching for her own unique and distinctive sound and a special soundscape, Laia Genc pursues her very personal musical path as a versatile artist and has produced music albums both on her own and as a ‘sidewoman’. As a sensitive sound painter, composer and arranger, she lends many projects a special colour in a captivating mixture of jazz and free improvisation.
A mainstay of her work is the piano trio ‘Liaison Tonique’, which released its debut album “Trilogien” on the Cologne label ‘JazzHausMusik’ in 2005 and has been performing continuously and worldwide ever since. A second constant is her collaboration with singer Sabine Kühlich, which spans many projects from children's concerts to her own
concert programs and includes the successful collaboration with the founder of the
‘Laboratory for World Music’ at the Folkwang Music School in Essen, Prof. Dr. Ilse Storb.
www.laiagenc.com
In addition to the numerous awards she has won alone or with her piano trio ‘Liaison Tonique’ at home and abroad, she is also included in the illustrious list of scholarship recipients of the Cologne Jazz Prize. In 2020, she received one of the scholarships from ‘Präsenz vor Ort – für Musikerinnen mit Kind des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen’ (Local Presence – for Female Musicians with Children in North Rhine-Westphalia), which was awarded by the Women's Cultural Office of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2023, she was awarded the Culture Promotion Prize of the Oberbergischer Kreis.
Always searching for her own unique and distinctive sound and a special soundscape, Laia Genc pursues her very personal musical path as a versatile artist and has produced music albums both on her own and as a ‘sidewoman’. As a sensitive sound painter, composer and arranger, she lends many projects a special colour in a captivating mixture of jazz and free improvisation.
A mainstay of her work is the piano trio ‘Liaison Tonique’, which released its debut album “Trilogien” on the Cologne label ‘JazzHausMusik’ in 2005 and has been performing continuously and worldwide ever since. A second constant is her collaboration with singer Sabine Kühlich, which spans many projects from children's concerts to her own
concert programs and includes the successful collaboration with the founder of the
‘Laboratory for World Music’ at the Folkwang Music School in Essen, Prof. Dr. Ilse Storb.
www.laiagenc.com