tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 7.30 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CET
The trio came together for the first time in early 2002 in Amsterdam, the first concert at LOFT dates back to April 2, 2003.
Since then, the three musicians have continuously developed and deepened their music on many tours and concerts, which can be heard on five CDs (all recorded at the LOFT) – kwast (Konnex), unearth (nuscope), palaë (Leo), geäder (gligg) sowie oblengths, released by Leo Records in early 2016.
The latest work Canberra was released at the end of October 2023 as a digital release and on vinyl on Trokaan....
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tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 7.30 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CET
The trio came together for the first time in early 2002 in Amsterdam, the first concert at LOFT dates back to April 2, 2003.
Since then, the three musicians have continuously developed and deepened their music on many tours and concerts, which can be heard on five CDs (all recorded at the LOFT) – kwast (Konnex), unearth (nuscope), palaë (Leo), geäder (gligg) sowie oblengths, released by Leo Records in early 2016.
The latest work Canberra was released at the end of October 2023 as a digital release and on vinyl on Trokaan.
Kaufmann/Gratkowski/de Joode unite the transparency of contemporary chamber music – incorporating silence as well as slipping into noise realms that are then reinterpreted and punctuated by relics of almost tonal piano chords – with the energy, pointedness, and unpredictability of jazz and other more rhythmically aggressive music.
From the beginning, the trio’s music was freely improvised, born of the moment. There were and are no rehearsals or agreements, no conceptual considerations in advance – a fact that has puzzled many a listener, reviewer or fellow musician, since much of the trio’s music sounds „as if composed“.
Kaufmann/Gratkowski/de Joode toured North America for several weeks in 2007 and 2009 (including Roulette New York, Princeton University, Earshot Festival Seattle, Mills College Oakland, Umbrella Festival Chicago, New Orleans, Vancouver, Toronto, Montréal) and in early 2020 to Australia and Southeast Asia.
They have performed across Europe at many important stages and festivals (BIMhuis Amsterdam; Porgy und Bess Vienna; Ars Nova Festival (SWR); Ring Festival Belgrade; De Singel Antwerp; Musée d’art moderne Strasbourg; Exploratorium Berlin, Alternativa Festival Prague, Klangspuren Festival).
NOTE: In 2024, the concerts at the LOFT will start round 8pm - the LOFT opens approx. 30min before the concerts begin.
Exceptions (until Eastern): Sunday Concerts (start approx at 6pm, if not noted otherwise).
Information about prices, ticket reservations and our opening times can be found here:
https://www.loftkoeln.de/en/tickets/
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