SHUTEEN 
ERDENEBAATAR

Born in the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar, composer, pianist and arranger Shuteen Erdenebaatar (*1998) brings a unique sound to the audience with her yearning melodies enriched with profound and expressive harmonies and rhythms.

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Raised as a classical musician, she began her undergraduate studies in classical composition as she was only 16. Immediately after her successful graduation, she moved to Munich in 2018 to expand her horizons through a double master's degree in jazz piano and jazz composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts. During her studies she was a full scholarship holder of the DAAD (2018-2021) and Orlandus Lassus Foundation (2021-2022). At age of 23, she has successfully finished two master's degree and a post-graduate certificate studies (Meisterklasse) with outstanding achievement. Since fall 2023, she has been chosen as a scholarship holder of the Concerto 21 foundation, with which she is planning her debut and comeback in her home country Mongolia in fall 2024, after establishing herself internationally as a jazz musician in recent years. 

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Shuteen Erdenebaatar is a laureate of the prestigious German Jazz Award 2024, Mongolian biggest cultural award "Mungun Mod" 2024, BMW Young Artist Jazz Award 2022, the 1st Prize and the audience award for the legendary Young Munich Jazz Award, the Music Scholarship of the City of Munich 2022, the Composition Prize at the Biberach Prize 2022 and the 1st Prize at the Kurt Maas Jazz Prize 2021, among others, where she was awarded with a scholarship at the world famous Berklee College of Music. 

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Her compositions have been played in the Munich Philharmonic Hall or in Studio 2 of the Bavarian National Radio. Furthermore, she has also been commissioned by Mongolia's most significant orchestras, such as the Bayan Mongol Big Band, the Mongolian State Philharmonic Orchestra or the Mongolian State Opera Symphony Orchestra. Currently she is working as a composer and pianist on her own projects such as the Shuteen Erdenebaatar Quartet, the Lightville Duo, and as a conductor for her newly formed 20-piece, cross-genre Chamber Jazz Orchestra in Munich. 

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In 2023, she has signed a three-album agreement with the multi-Grammy award-winning New York label Motema Music, which includes all three of her current projects. The first album Rising Sun with her quartet was released on September 15, 2023. In 2024 she was awarded the Mongolian greatest cultural award "Mungun Mod" with her latest release "Rising Sun". Furthermore, she was nominated twice for the prestigious German Jazz Award (formerly ECHO) in the categories “Pianist of the Year” and “Ensemble of the Year” and won the award with her quartet in the category of "Ensemble of the year". 

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