tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 7.30 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CET
Look for the unexpected, the surprising. Letting yourself be carried away by the moment. Music created by a collective of extraordinary singers. Exciting, complex, funny, experimental, spontaneous, atmospheric, diverse, moving.
At the heart of the repertoire are original arrangements and compositions, always with an opening into improvisation – which is the heart and soul of the VokalOrchester NRW. Improvisation allows the singers‘ creative and vocal energy to fully unfold: collectively, as soloists or in smaller groups...
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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
Look for the unexpected, the surprising. Letting yourself be carried away by the moment. Music created by a collective of extraordinary singers. Exciting, complex, funny, experimental, spontaneous, atmospheric, diverse, moving.
At the heart of the repertoire are original arrangements and compositions, always with an opening into improvisation – which is the heart and soul of the VokalOrchester NRW. Improvisation allows the singers‘ creative and vocal energy to fully unfold: collectively, as soloists or in smaller groups
https://vokalorchester.nrw/
A special singer is our guest:
Lauren Newton, born in Oregon, USA, completed classical vocal studies at the University of Oregon and at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart, where she has lived as a vocalist since 1974. She expanded her range of vocal expression and vocal techniques, focusing primarily on vocal expression, and gained wide recognition in both the jazz and avant-garde music scenes. She is a crossover artist between jazz, new music, performance and dance. In 2020, she received the Jazz Prize for her life’s work from the state of Baden-Württemberg.
http://www.laurennewton.com/
“Anyone who has followed the development of Lauren Newton has been able to observe how a talented singer has become one of the most exciting, imaginative and courageous vocal experimenters on the contemporary music scene in just a few years.” Basler Zeitung
tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 7.30 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CET
The Sephardics focus on the contemporary treatment of Sephardic musical traditions. Some of the pieces originated in the 16th century in the Jewish communities around the Mediterranean. The Sephardics infuse the songs with jazz and rock elements and reinterpret them with a love of improvisation. The result is a rousing mixture of energetic and calm, expressive and intimate.
In 2017, The Sephardics won the CREOLE NRW competition.
In 2019, their CD Abre tu puerta was released and they were awarded the German World Music Prize RUTH (promotional category).
https://www.sephardics.de/
In autumn 2024, they will go on tour with a new program, supported by two outstanding musicians.
Berlin-based Australian guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Oren Ambarchi has been one of the most active experimentalists on the fringes of improvised music, free jazz and noise for three decades. Ambarchi’s approach and his compositions are strongly influenced by the minimal music and electronic avant-garde of the 20th century: they are considered, minimal arrangements, they captivate with their apparent simplicity and use the component of time as a compositional category in its own right.
https://orenambarchi.com/
With his subtle, unobtrusive rhythms, the South Indian percussionist Ramesh Shotham has had a lasting influence on a multitude of musical encounters and has thus become a formative bridge builder between different musical cultures.
Shotham is regarded as one of the most successful percussionists on the entire continent. He has not only performed with leading European and American jazz and rock musicians, but has also played with artists from Africa, Australia, China, Korea, Taiwan and several Arab countries. In 2018, Ramesh was honored with the WDR Jazz Award.
https://shotham.org/
In a rehearsal phase, the musicians work together on the Sephardic songs with their most diverse musical means and styles. What emerges is not yet audible, but certainly one thing: touching.
Supported by:
Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
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