tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 7.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CEST
LIGHT
As a duo, Christian Weidner and Felix Hauptmann unfold a shared vision of contemporary creative music, crystal clear, floskelless, original, beautiful.
A music full of melodic poetry, which, with a high proportion of silence and spherical textures, leads perception to new discoveries beneath the surfaces.
„…the players are not bringing their well-rehearsed bags of tricks to the melodic table, but rather reaching deep inside themselves to forge new tonal material out of the precious and unique moment. It is a delicate balance between the known and the unknown, the tested and the untried, it is a musical flow state and I underscore it here because this kind of improvising is still, even in 2024, a rarity in jazz and a quality to admire and behold.“...
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tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 7.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CEST
LIGHT
As a duo, Christian Weidner and Felix Hauptmann unfold a shared vision of contemporary creative music, crystal clear, floskelless, original, beautiful.
A music full of melodic poetry, which, with a high proportion of silence and spherical textures, leads perception to new discoveries beneath the surfaces.
„…the players are not bringing their well-rehearsed bags of tricks to the melodic table, but rather reaching deep inside themselves to forge new tonal material out of the precious and unique moment. It is a delicate balance between the known and the unknown, the tested and the untried, it is a musical flow state and I underscore it here because this kind of improvising is still, even in 2024, a rarity in jazz and a quality to admire and behold.“
excerpt from the Liner Notes by Hayden Chisholm, July 2024
Christian Weidner
Christian Weidner is a composer whose music is strongly characterized by a reflection on inner peace and prudence, from which multifaceted compositions grow. Colored by a kind of inner immigration from the mainstream, whose workings he knows exactly – he already played in the BuJazzO at the age of 17 – but avoids them unerringly. The Berlin alto saxophonist refuses to be superficial, not stubbornly, but firmly. He also rarely indulges in pure virtuosity. It is always about the search for the reason, for depth, inner peace and spiritual power. Encounters with Kenny Werner and Charlie Mariano and years of playing with Gunter Hampel and Albert Mangelsdorff have had an influence here. He studied saxophone at music academies in Hamburg, Stockholm and Berlin, where he has lived since 1999. Since 2003, Christian Weidner has worked closely with Jason Seizer, the producer of the Munich jazz label Pirouet. The music of his quartet with Achim Kaufmann (p), Henning Sieverts (b) and Samuel Rohrer (dr) found its home there, as did that of the Kathrin Pechlof Trio. This trio, in which Weidner plays with his partner Kathrin Pechlof (harp) and Robert Landfermann (b), was nominated for the „German Jazz Award“ in the „Radio Production of the Year“ category in 2021.
http://www.christianweidner.de/
https://www.pirouet.de/weidner.html
Felix Hauptmann
As a pianist and composer, Felix Hauptmann is part of the young, progressive jazz scene and is mainly active with his ensemble PERCUSSION, an acoustic piano trio with Roger Kintopf (bass) and Leif Berger (drums). He also works with various ensembles such as the Fabian Dudek Quartett, the Pascal Klewer Quintett & Bigband and the Berthold Brauer Sextett. He has been a lecturer in jazz piano at the University of Wuppertal since 2020. He has released several recordings under his own name, such as „TALK“ and „Bloom„.
In February 2022 the first album of his trio PERCUSSION was released in March 2023 PERCUSSION II (both on „Boomslang Records„).
https://felixhauptmann.wordpress.com/
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