tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 7.30 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CET
The trio Nabatov · Kintopf · Parzhuber was formed at the beginning of 2024 and served as a rhythm section for various ensembles that rehearsed and recorded Simon Nabatov’s music in the chamber music hall of Deutschlandfunk in April 2024. The documented music will be released in April 2025 on the Polish label FSR (Fundacja Sluchaj Records) as the CD Agree to disagree.
All three found the compilation very successful, and after the trio presented a jazz standards program at Cologne’s Club King Georg in September and became part of Simon’s project What My Grandfather Could Tell Me (presented in three concerts and also recorded at LOFT) in October, the next step was clear for Nabatov: to present and document the trio as an independent unit with material written especially for it.
The pianist and composer Simon Nabatov was born in Moscow in 1959, studied at the Moscow Conservatory and, after his family emigrated to New York in 1979, continued his education there at the Juilliard School of Music.
His activities include jazz, improvised, experimental and world music.
The pianist was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C., in 1987. In 1989 he won the first “Martial Solal International Jazz Piano Competition” in Paris.
Simon Nabatov has long since made a name for himself as an internationally renowned player in solo work as well as in numerous collaborations, including ongoing collaborations in duos with Steve Lacy, Nils Wogram, Matthias Schubert, Tom Rainey, Ernst Reijseger, Gareth Lubbe and Hayden Chisholm; in quartets with Ray Anderson, Arthur Blythe, Perry Robinson, Nils Wogram and Matthias Schubert; and with the NDR Bigband and the Klaus König Orchestra.
His bands and projects include the Simon Nabatov Trio with Stefan Schönegg and Dominik Mahnig, the “Trio Braz” with André de Cayres and Rodrigo Villalón, the trio “Luminous” with Barry Guy and Gerry Hemingway, and the Simon Nabatov “String Trio” with Gareth Lubbe and Ben Davis. His current solo programs deal with Brazilian music, pieces by Herbie Nichols and Thelonious Monk, as well as his own electro-acoustic pieces.
Nabatov has performed at numerous festivals, concert tours, radio productions and workshops in over 60 countries around the world. He can also be heard on over 70 CDs, including around 35 releases under his own name.
http://www.nabatov.com/
Roger Kintopf (*1998) is a double bass player and composer who grew up in a musical family and has been gaining experience on stage since childhood.
After several years of classical piano lessons, he won his first prizes in competitions such as “Jugend Musiziert” and the “International Rotary Piano Competition”.
At the age of eleven, Roger first switched to the electric bass and later to the double bass.
He has been an active part of the German jazz scene for several years. He has played and worked with musicians such as Loren Stillman, Christian Lillinger, Johanna Summer, Felix Hauptmann, Leif Berger, etc. As a sideman he works in small and large ensembles with feature guests such as Evan Parker, Kit Downes and Christopher Dell.
Roger played and toured with the Landesjugendjazzorchester Hessen from 2014 to 2016, and was a member of the Bundesjazzorchester 2016-2018, with which he toured Ecuador and India in 2017.
he has played concerts with various bands in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, the USA, Ecuador, India and Nepal.
From 2016 to 2018, Roger studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne with Dietmar Fuhr, Dieter Manderscheid and Jonas Burgwinkel. In 2019, he lived in Paris to continue his studies with Riccardo Del Fra at the Conservatoire Supérieur National de Musique et de Danse de Paris.
He has played at festivals and venues such as Jazzfest Bonn, Eldenaer Jazz Evenings, Plushmusic Festival, Stadtgarten Köln, Altes Pfandhaus Köln, Philharmonie Köln, Philharmonie Essen, Bimhuis Amsterdam…and of course countless times at LOFT.
https://rogerkintopf.com/
Alexander Parzhuber, born 1996 in Landshut, is a young jazz drummer, composer and teacher from Cologne. From October 2014 to March 2020, he completed his Bachelor of Music with a major in jazz percussion at the Cologne University of Music and Dance under Prof. Jonas Burgwinkel, Alex Vesper and Dietmar Fuhr.
During his studies in Cologne, Alexander was a member of the Bundesjazzorchester from 2016 to 2018, where he worked with artists such as Niels Klein, Jiggs Whigham, Randy Brecker, Jörg Achim Keller, Pablo Held and the WDR Big Band and played various tours worldwide.
As a DAAD scholarship holder, he was able to study for a year in France at the Conservatoire Supérieur National de Musique et de Danse de Paris with Drè Pallemaerts, among others, in 2020/2021.
Alexander currently plays mainly in his own artistic projects, such as the Parzhuber Trio, The Human Element, Vagabond Souls, La Campagne, Marvin Frey Group and Byrd Dhillon.
As a sideman, he has played nationally and internationally with the WDR Big Band, the Subway Jazz Orchestra, the Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, Heidi Bayer’s Virtual Leak and the Jacob Manz Project.
Alexander has been teaching jazz drums at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich since the winter semester 2021/22.
https://www.alexanderparzhuber.com/
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