tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 7.30 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CET
Fare is a trio from Berlin.
With their debut album Ant Mills (Enja Records), the group presents a selection of free improvisations in which you can follow the musicians on the path of what is emerging in the moment; where form and direction are constantly changing and developing, yet there is a larger arc to them. Released as a double album (Ant Mills I + II), both collections function as two different approaches to creating a larger arc of tension through a flowing narrative from piece to piece, filled with a variety of small stories.
Pianist Valentin Gerhardus, bassist Felix Henkelhausen and drummer Marius Wankel are long-time musical companions who have developed their own language of musical gestures and textures over the years. Together they try to free themselves from the roles of their instruments and form a common body of sound in which the boundaries between the musicians are blurred and an equal interplay free of conventions is created.
Based on the phenomenon of Ant Mills, in which ants run to exhaustion in a vortex, a narrative emerges from this gloomy natural phenomenon reminiscent of modern humanity, which thematizes decay and what arises from it and paints a harmonious, circulating picture of becoming and passing away. Accompanied by a text by Sophia Koh, Fare’s music lends this image a peaceful, thoughtful and at the same time liberating and light dimension. Music in which one can lose oneself and which at the same time opens up a path – always in the sense of circular motion as a symbol of natural progress.
Valentin Gerhardus, born 1997 in Munich, is a pianist and sound artist based in Berlin. Starting with a classical piano education since the age of 7, he studied jazz piano with Prof. Michael Wollny at the HMT Leipzig from 2015-2020. Even at a young age, he was a prizewinner at the 2014 Jugend Jazzt national competition and part of the young talent band at the 2016 Esslingen Jazz Festival.
During his studies, he developed an interest in electronic music and worked a lot with improvisational approaches in experimental music and the relationship between acoustic and electronic sounds. He is currently working on a soundtrack for a feature film and is active as a producer, freelance pianist and laptop musician. Gerhardus has performed on stage with musicians such as Philipp Gropper, Nick Dunston, Matthias Bauer, Wanja Slavin, Peter Bruun, Uli Kempendorff, Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra, Johannes Enders, Roy Nathanson, Tony Lakatos,
Ludwig Wandinger, trngs, Evi Filippou etc. Since 2022 he has been part of the Berlin concert series “Future Bash” and has already played at festivals such as: Copenhagen Jazzfest, Finale Neuer Deutscher Jazzpreis 2022, Transmediale CTM Vorspiel Berlin, Jazzahead, Cologne Jazzweek, SHARE Frankfurt, etc.
Felix Henkelhausen, born in Oldenburg in 1995, received classical piano and cello lessons before his interest in the double bass was awakened. At the age of 16, he began his junior studies at the HfK Bremen with Prof. Detlev Beier. In 2014, he studied at the Jazz Institute Berlin with Prof. Greg Cohen and Marc Muellbauer, which he successfully completed in 2019. In 2022 he played with his quintet in the final of the New German Jazz Award and in 2023 he was nominated for the German Jazz Award in the bass category. Despite his young age, Henkelhausen has already played with nationally and internationally renowned artists such as Andrea Parkins, Dave Liebmann, Eric McPherson, Jim Black, Jochen Rueckert, Kathrin Pechlof, Lotte Anker, Marc Copland, Nate Wooley, Pablo Held, TAU5, Philipp Gropper’s Philm, Mark Feldman and many others.
In 2017, he launched the “Future Bash” concert series together with Ludwig Wandinger.
He has also been a board member of IG Jazz Berlin since 2023.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Henkelhausen
Marius Wankel, born in Heidelberg in 1996, is a drummer and lives in Berlin. Growing up in a family of musicians, he won several prizes as a drummer and pianist at “Jugend musiziert” and “Jugend Jazzt” at a young age. After graduating from high school, he began studying drums with Bill Elgart at the HfM in Würzburg before transferring to the Jazz Institute at the UdK Berlin in 2018, where he completed his bachelor’s degree in 2021. Since then, he has been an active member of the jazz and improvised music scene in Berlin and plays in numerous national and international projects. In 2024, he was nominated for Band of the Year at the German Jazz Awards with the Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra. Since 2023 he has also been part of “Future Bash”, a concert series for improvised music. In addition to his jazz projects, Wankel also plays in the post-punk band Nip Slip, produces music and, despite his young age, has already worked with artists such as Myka9, Wanja Slavin, Ronny Graupe, Camila Nebbia, Philipp Gropper, Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra, Daniel Derro Regan, Lola von der Gracht, Tim Novikov and Isaiah Barr.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_Wankel
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