Shuteen Erdenebaatar
Biography Shuteen Erdenebaatar
Shuteen Erdenebaatar
The composer, conductor and pianist Shuteen Erdenebaatar (*1998), born in the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar, brings a unique sound to the audience with her longing melodies, enriched with profound and expressive harmonies and rhythms. Growing up as a classical musician, she began her bachelor's degree in classical composition at the age of 16. Immediately after her successful graduation, she came to Munich in 2018 to expand her horizons with a double master's degree in jazz piano and jazz composition at the University of Music and Theater. At the age of 23, she successfully completed two master's degree programs and a continuing education certificate program in a master class.
Shuteen Erdenebaatar is a winner of, among others, the renowned BMW Young Artist Jazz Award 2022, the Music Scholarship of the City of Munich, the 1st Prize and Audience Prize of the 10th Young Munich Jazz Prize, the Composition Prize at the Biberach Jazz Prize 2022 and the 1st Prize at the Kurt Maas Jazz Prize 2021.
Her own compositions have already been performed in the Munich Philharmonic and in Studio 2 of the Bavarian Radio. She has also received composition commissions from Mongolia's most important orchestras, such as the Bayan Mongol Big Band, the Mongolian State Philharmonic Orchestra and the Mongolian State Opera Symphony Orchestra.
She is currently working as a composer and pianist on her own projects such as the Shuteen Erdenebaatar Quartet, the Lightville Duo and as conductor of her newly founded 20-member, cross-genre Chamber Jazz Orchestra in Munich.
In 2023, she signed a multi-album deal with multi-Grammy-winning New York label Motema Music, covering all three of her current projects. The first album Rising Sun with their quartet will be released on September 15, 2023.
