Vera Brandes

Vera Brandes (born 1956 in Cologne) is a German music producer and researcher in music and media effects. The feature film Köln 75 tells the story of how as a teenager she produced the famous concert by pianist Keith Jarrett at the Opera House in Cologne, which became the best-selling recording of a solo jazz piano performance.

Life and impact

Brandes began to organize jazz concerts and tours at the age of fifteen, one of the first being a tour with Ronnie Scott's trio. In 1974 she organized the New Jazz in Cologne concert series in Cologne. From 2004 to 2017, she led a third-party funded research program for music medicine at the Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg and conducted, among other things, a study on the effect of music on depression.

Book publications