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.
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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
