Kate Espasandin
Jazz
Member of the jury since 2023
Kate Espandin holds a Bachelor of Music from Cambridge University (UK) and a Master of Musicology from McGill University (USA). In 2014, she co-founded the Jazz au Peuple Festival (Nyon) dedicated to promoting Swiss artists from the jazz and improvisation music scenes. In 2016, she joined the programming committee of the Cully Jazz Festival, taking over the contemporary jazz scenes of the OFF Festival with a focus on emerging Swiss musicians. In 2017, she went on to join the committee of Live in Vevey where, apart from her programming functions, she organises artists’ residencies for jazz and improvisation music at the Théâtre de l’Oriental. In the past, Kate has also worked with the committee of Suisse Diagonales Jazz and has been invited to sit on the juries and panels of experts for various awards and prizes (M4music, etc.).
