Burkard Kunkel

Discography
Monxarella BAY022
6/27/2025

News
  • 10/7/2025

    German Record Critics' Award Longlist 4/2025

    The German Record Critics' Award presents its current longlist for 4/2025. 152 critics have nominated new releases from the last quarter in 32 categories for consideration for the next list of the best recordings. Burkard Kunkel was nominated in the Jazz I and II categories for his album ‘Monxarella’ (BayLa Records / Galileo Music). With the diverse timbres of his zither, he illuminates a more intimate side of pianist Thelonious Monk in a mixture of lightness, tension, humour and morbid charm. Also nominated in these two categories is Amina Claudine Myers with ‘Solace of the Mind’ (Red Hook). The world music jury selected Tania Saleh with Fragile (Association Tantune) and Virginia Nicoli with ‘Taramandal’ (Felmay). In the Traditional Ethnic Music category, Julian Kytasty with ‘Songs of Truth’ (Smithsonian Folkways), Kengo Saito Japanistan Trio with ‘Douce Errance’ (Felmay), Mara Aranda with ‘Sefarad – En El Corazón de Bulgaria’ (Bureo), Michalis Kouloumis with ‘Displaced Dreams’ (Seyir Muzik) and, once again, Virginia Nicoli with ‘Taramandal’ (Felmay) can hope to win an award ...more