tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 8.00 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CEST
Seek the unexpected, the surprising. Let yourself be carried away by the moment. Music created by a collective of extraordinary singers. Exciting, complex, funny, experimental, spontaneous, atmospheric, diverse, moving.
The core of the repertoire are own arrangements and compositions, always with the opening into improvisation – which is the heart and soul of the VokalOrchester NRW. In improvisation, the creative and vocal energy of the singers can fully unfold: collectively, soloistically or in smaller groups....
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tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 8.00 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CEST
Seek the unexpected, the surprising. Let yourself be carried away by the moment. Music created by a collective of extraordinary singers. Exciting, complex, funny, experimental, spontaneous, atmospheric, diverse, moving.
The core of the repertoire are own arrangements and compositions, always with the opening into improvisation – which is the heart and soul of the VokalOrchester NRW. In improvisation, the creative and vocal energy of the singers can fully unfold: collectively, soloistically or in smaller groups.
A special strength lies in the versatile backgrounds of the participants: Profiled singer-songwriters, soloists and ensemble professionals from jazz and pop, experienced arrangers, ensemble leaders and vocal coaches bring their full artistic weight to the vocal collective.
In 2018, the VokalOrchester NRW appeared on stage for the first time at the Moers Jazz Festival. Since then, it has thrilled audiences on regular tours through NRW and at festival appearances (VocCologne 2019, TIN Festival Düsseldorf 2020, wir4Kultur Kultursommer Niederrhein 2021, Approximation Festival Düsseldorf 2021).
In addition to its own projects, the VokalOrchester NRW has collaborated with artists such as trumpeter and composer Markus Stockhausen, arranger Daniel Mattar, and the bands Efterklang and Sigur Rós.
The creative future of collective singing has just begun …
https://vokalorchester.nrw/
Theo Bleckmann is a two-time Grammy®-nominated jazz singer and new music composer whose diverse recorded work includes albums of Las Vegas standards, Weimar art songs, a-capella solo voice pieces, newly-arranged songs by Charles lves (with jazz/rock collective Kneebody); and his highly acclaimed Hello Earth! – The Music of Kate Bush, leading his work to be described as „from another planet“ (New York Times), as „magical, futuristic,“ (AllAboutJazz), „limitless“ (Citypaper, Philadelphia) „transcendent“ (Village Voice) and „brilliant“ (New York Magazine).
http://www.theobleckmann.com/
Bleckmann, who has been residing in New York City since 1989, has released a series of gorgeous and irreverent albums, including his highly acclaimed „Hello Earth – the Music of Kate Bush.“ In recent years, he has appeared as a special guest on recordings by Ambrose Akinmusire for Blue Note Records and Julia Hülsmann’s trio for ECM, and in 2017, ECM released Theo’s recording with his Elegy Quintet, produced by Manfred Eicher.
In their album review of Elegy, the Wall Street Journal’s called Bleckmann „A jazz vocalist for the 21st Century„.
Bleckmann has a long-standing collaboration with guitar iconoclast Ben Monder – together they have recorded 6 albums with a 7th in the making.
Bleckmann’s latest release is This Land (2021), developed and performed with celebrated bass quartet The Westerties. Theo Bleckmann has performed with musicians, dancers, visual artists, actors and composers, including Laurie Anderson, Uri Caine, Merce Cunningham, Philip Glass, Ann Hamilton, John Hollenbeck, Sheila Jordan, Phil Kline, Frances MacDormand, Mark Morris, David Lang, Ben Monder, Ulysses Owens, Kenny Wheeler, John Zorn, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, the WDR Big Band and hr radio big band Frankfurt and, most prominently, Meredith Monk, with whom Bleckmann has collaborated with for over 20 years.
Bleckmann was interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air, appeared on the David Letterman show with Laurie Anderson and performed as a soloist with the St. Louis Symphonie at Carnegie Hall in Meredith Monks Weave.
In 2015, he premiered his own commission for the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, and 2016 brought the premieres of two new works to the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics.
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