tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 7.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CEST
Formed in 2024, CELOSIA plays the music of Jeremy Viner and Paul Motian.
Jeremy Viner is a multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer, and educator involved in a wide range of musical idioms, maintaining an active role in the New York and Berlin experimental music scenes. His latest project is the collaborative trio SIFTERS, with Kate Gentile and Marc Ducret. As a saxophonist and clarinetist, Viner has performed internationally with ensembles led by John Hollenbeck, Steve Lehman, Tyshawn Sorey, Anna Webber, Kate Gentile, Rafiq Bhatia, and many others. Viner is a member of the genre-bending tenor saxophone quartet Battle Trance and the chamber minimalist ensemble Bing & Ruth, two of his longest-running musical collaborations....
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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
Formed in 2024, CELOSIA plays the music of Jeremy Viner and Paul Motian.
Jeremy Viner is a multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer, and educator involved in a wide range of musical idioms, maintaining an active role in the New York and Berlin experimental music scenes. His latest project is the collaborative trio SIFTERS, with Kate Gentile and Marc Ducret. As a saxophonist and clarinetist, Viner has performed internationally with ensembles led by John Hollenbeck, Steve Lehman, Tyshawn Sorey, Anna Webber, Kate Gentile, Rafiq Bhatia, and many others. Viner is a member of the genre-bending tenor saxophone quartet Battle Trance and the chamber minimalist ensemble Bing & Ruth, two of his longest-running musical collaborations.
Florian Herzog, bassist and composer, is a pioneer of the German and international jazz and avant-garde scenes. After living and working in the Netherlands, Cologne and finally New York, he now writes for projects that are avant-garde jazz, pop or electronic, but also always all of the above. His bass playing has been described by the press as „emancipated, spirited and sensitive.“
His collective bands such as Just Another Foundry, Turn, and Trillmann have won multiple awards and released eight albums together. As a leader, Herzog’s projects such as Moon Tree and his just-released quartet album „Almost Natural“ are peppered with international collaborations. He has worked with established greats like Theo Bleckmann, Jim Black and Nils Wogram but also with the new generation and musicians like Anna Webber, Elias Stemeseder and Nick Dunston.
Felix Hauptmann is a pianist and composer based in Cologne, Germany and part of the young and flourishing contemporary music scene in Europe. He received the Jazzprice of the City Cologne in 2022 and was invited to the Villa Waldberta as artist in residence of the AIR program in Munich in spring 2024. Since September 2024, Felix is part of the NICA artist development program from Stadtgarten, Cologne. He’s currently focussing on his ensemble PERCUSSION with Roger Kintopf on bass and Leif Berger on drums, SERPENTINE (ft. Jorik Bergman, Fabian Dudek, Samuel Mastorakis, Ursula Wienken & Leif Berger) and a piano duo with Kirke Karja. Felix teaches Jazz Piano at Bergische Universität Wuppertal (BUW). As a sideman he’s working with Fabian Dudek, Jorik Bergman, Phil Donkin, Pascal Klewer, Tancrede D. Kummer, Christian Weidner and many more.
Fabian Arends, located in Cologne, Germany, is working as a drummer, composer and producer of electronic music. He is teaching drums, ensemble and improvisation at HMDK Stuttgart since 2016. His group FOSTERCHILD released two records – Fosterchild (tangible music, 2019) and Dear Earthling (ILK music, 2020). A new Live Album will be released in 2025. In 2022 he released fractures (Klaengrecords) and hereby displayed an ensemble with a rich color spectrum that serves as a working laboratory for different improvisational concepts and compositions. Arends´ work on drums is manifested in many recordings and collaborations with some of the finest musicians worldwide including Lee Konitz, Larry Goldings, Maria Schneider, Thomas Morgan, Ingrid Laubrock, Marc Copland, Bill Carrothers, Aurora Nealand, Shannon Barnett, Nils Wogram, Jacob Anderskov, David Helm, Pablo Held and many others.
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