tickets:
regular: 12,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 6,- €uro
doors: 8.00 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CEST
Voilà – a new quintet (plus 1) for which I will write new music.
I’ve been playing with Tobias in various formations since my time in Amsterdam, with Robert mainly with grünen and Christian Lillinger’s Grund. Elisabeth and Dominik I know from some musical encounters, which immediately triggered in me the desire to do something together. As in the Trokaan project, the texts by Gabriele Guenther play a special role.
Achim Kaufmann...
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tickets:
regular: 12,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 6,- €uro
doors: 8.00 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CEST
Voilà – a new quintet (plus 1) for which I will write new music.
I’ve been playing with Tobias in various formations since my time in Amsterdam, with Robert mainly with grünen and Christian Lillinger’s Grund. Elisabeth and Dominik I know from some musical encounters, which immediately triggered in me the desire to do something together. As in the Trokaan project, the texts by Gabriele Guenther play a special role.
Achim Kaufmann
“Achim Kaufmann has been one of the most exciting personalities of the European jazz and improvisation scene for many years. His music testifies to harmonic subtlety and structural depth; as a brilliant pianist and composer, he has found his way to a nuanced, now-contemporary sound language via a reflective engagement with tradition, in which poetry, energy and abstraction are equally present.”
Julia Neupert, SWR
Achim Kaufmann was awarded the SWR Jazz Prize in 2001. and the Albert Mangelsdorff Prize in 2015.
Kaufmann has been active as a pianist and composer since the late 1980s.
His longest-lived projects include the improvising trio Kaufmann/Gratkowski/de Joode, a duo with Amsterdam-based clarinetist and saxophonist Michael Moore, and the piano trio grünen with Christian Lillinger and Robert Landfermann.
His collaborations with his wife Gabriele Guenther include the multidisciplinary Trokaan Project, which brings together aspects of improvised chamber music, poetry texts and fragments, and electro-acoustic textures.
Achim can also be heard in duos with Ignaz Schick, Yorgos Dimitriadis, and Kalle Kalima, as well as in a trio with Liz Kosack and Christian Marien.
Other collaborations have been with Han Bennink, George Lewis, Jim Black, Paul Lovens, Mark Dresser, Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey, Shelley Hirsch, Okkyung Lee, Axel Dörner, Steve Swallow, Al Foster and many others.
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