Matthias Wegner has been jazz editor at Deutschlandfunk Kultur since 2011. An active contributor at jazz events in Germany and internationally since the 1990s, he has written for a number of print outlets and reported on jazz for several public radio stations. He has been at jazzahead! every single year since it started in 2006, and is a jury member for the GERMAN JAZZ EXPO. Deutschlandfunk Kultur does regular live broadcasts from jazzahead!
Frank Bolder was born in 1965 in the village of Didam, in the east of The Netherlands, close to the German border. He is married, and father of a daughter and a son. At this moment he lives in Rotterdam, with his wife, kids and dog. Since 2009 Frank is the music program manager for the jazz focussed venue LantarenVenster in the city of Rotterdam, since 2006 Frank is one of the program managers for the North Sea Jazz Festival Rotterdam. Frank played drums in many different bands since the age of 12. And always did booking and bookkeeping of the bands, besides playing drums. He graduated for a bachelor’s degree in arts management from HKU University of the Arts, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Frank worked as booking agent, tour manager and musician at Crossroads Blues Agency, was the co-founder of Black & Tan Records, worked as an independent agent under the names Frank Bolder Music Management and Bolder Music Agency and as director of the Liberty Day Music Festival in Utrecht and production manager for the Slagwerk Festival (Drummer’s Festival) in various Dutch cities. On a personal level Frank is fond of: his wife and kids, (live) jazz & world music, coffee, tea, water, good beer, wine and food, New Orleans, New York, Rotterdam, Utrecht, dogs, camping and travelling. And recently, in his 56th year on this earth, he bought a motorcycle. His first. A German BMW.