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The Serious Series will take place for the twelfth time this year. Frank Gratkowski and Achim Kaufmann are the curators, as they were for the past two festival editions. For them, it is essential to present music that gives sound to what has been “unheard-of” to date, that bypasses the conventional, melds elements that seem to be incongruent and crosses musical borders.


Free improvisation, contemporary compositional concepts, references to jazz traditions, interdisciplinary performance (dance) and electro-acoustic soundscapes commingle anew this year in a multifarious program.
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Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Community.

 

Friday, 15.12.2023

Tobias Delius solo

Tobias Delius – tenor saxophone, clarinet

Ulrike Brand / Olaf Rupp

Ulrike Brand – cello

Olaf Rupp – electric guitar

Gratkowski / Tramontana / Beresford

Frank Gratkowski – alto saxophone, clarinets, flutes

Sebi Tramontana – trombone

Steve Beresford – piano, objects

 

Saturday, 16.12.2023

Toma Gouband solo

Toma Gouband – drums and lithophone

Kaufmann / Moore / Dunston

Michael Moore – clarinet, alto saxophone

Achim Kaufmann – piano

Nick Dunston – bass

Michael Vatcher & Company

Michael Vatcher – drums

Richard Barrett – electronics

Liat Waysbort – dance

Balder Hansen – dance

 

Sunday, 17.12.2023

Kathrin Pechlof | Radical Empathy

Christian Weidner – alto saxophone

Kathrin Pechlof – harp and composition

Achim Kaufmann – piano

Elias Stemeseder – synthesizer, harpsichord

Robert Landfermann – bass

Leif Berger – drums

ACM

Anna Kaluza – alto saxophone

Céline Voccia – piano

Matthias Bauer – bass

Brique

Bianca Iannuzzi – voice

Eve Risser – piano

Luc Ex – bass

Francesco Pastacaldi – drums
Dates
December 2023
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