Melanie Scholtz Band

She started playing the piano from the age of 5 and went on to study Opera at The University of Cape Town Opera School where she graduated Cum Laude with a Performer’s Diploma in Opera in 2000. She has released five successful solo albums and has won many awards; In 2010, Melanie was named the Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz and In 2012, and won all three prizes at the prestigious Jazz Revelations competition as part of the Jazz a Juan Festival in Nice, France. Melanie was also chosen to be a featured artist in The Great South African Songbook Tour from September 2019- Feb 2020 with Wynton Marsalis and The Jazz at Lincoln Centre. She was featured in New York, Chicago, Johannesburg and Vienna.

Melanie has performed all over the world including her native country, South Africa, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden and the United States. She has performed alongside Kurt Elling at the Joy of Jazz festival in Johannesburg in 2012, with the Cape Town Philharmonic alongside the late Hugh Masekela in 2015 and also jammed alongside Bobby McFerrin at the Anjazz Jazz festival in Norway in 2011. She has also guested alongside Christian McBride and his trio for the 92 NY’s Discover Music Program in 2024.

Melanie has recorded the first of 2 new solo albums. The first, entitled Sweet Nancy, with the great Nancy Wilson as a muse, was recorded in the birthplace of jazz,  New Orleans in February 2023. The album is co-produced by artistic director and drummer Adonis Rose, and is set to be released in February 2025. The second of the two new albums, Seven, was recorded in Johannesburg in 2023 with Melanie’s original trio, featuring and produced by fellow Standard Bank Young Artist winner, Bokani Dyer and features another Young Artist winner, Benjamin Jephta on bass and Marlon Witbooi on drums. This record was released September 27 2024.

This extraordinary Prague´s jazz club is situated in the beautiful and romantic environment of old Prague, in the immediate vicinity of conservation area of Malá Strana and Kampa Island. Jazz Dock is surrounded by the unique 19th century buildings athmosphere, near Prague city center, very close to the National Theatre. Thanks to its unique location directly on the bank of the Vltava river it offers unforgettable views of Prague centre.

The high level of acoustic set up in this Prague jazz club allows live jazz music gigs until the morning hours! Often during a one single evening several jazz bands together as well as guest musicians will change on jazz club stage.

Jazz Dock has its own music concept. It´s dramaturgy is specific for its several-days concert blocks of significant Czech jazz bands and foreign bands and regular jazz festivals focused on a particular jazz genre, specific country or dominant jazz instrument.

Ten meters long Jazz Dock futuristic bar is full of traditional and proven drinks and cocktails as well as specialties and news for anyone with fantasy. Together with Jazz Dock kitchen´s delicatessen and efficient staff, Jazz Dock offers full-value enjoyment (not only) during musical production!

Jazz concerts in Jazz Dock are complemented by afternoon´s pleasant seating and refreshments during the day, and in the summer also in the beautiful surroundings of the outdoor café and on the roof of the club.

The club doesn´t have a direct wheelchair access but the club friendly staff is ready to help.