STOP OVER 4 - Perspectives: Three evenings, three perspectives, concert experiences full of musical innovations

Attention music lovers! ⭐️👀🎶

What makes a center for jazz and improvised music? What possibilities arise when artists bring their own personal perspectives to the stage? From January 8 to 10, 2026, STOP OVER 4 - Perspectives at Konzerthaus Berlin invites you to explore these questions - and experience jazz and improvisation at the same time.

Three renowned musicians each curate a concert evening: Ingrid Laubrock, Julia Hülsmann and Christian Lillinger. Each of them brings their own musical signature and createsnew perspectives and spaces with different sound languages.

Ingrid Laubrock: Dialogs and contrasts

Experimental saxophonist and composer Ingrid Laubrock will present the first evening with a program that not only opens up a view of the diversity of jazz and improvisation, but also hints at her own artistic vision: Dialogues between instruments, timbres and genres.

The Davies-Marino-Walker trio pushes the boundaries of what music can be right at the beginning of the concert evening. With the transfer of weaving patterns into music, the vocabulary of alternative resonating bodies meets abstracted influences from pop culture and everyday life.

With her second set, Laubrock brings together musicians from her adopted home of New York and Berlin: vibraphonist Yuhan Su, pianist and electronic artist Shinya Lin and saxophonist Michaël Attias. Between composition and improvisation, they explore counterpoint, timbres and rhythmic fields of gravity.

The evening concludes with a transformative dialog between poet Fred Moten, who creates conceptual spaces for new kinds of Black cultural production and aesthetics, and bassist Brandon López: the performance of the two New Yorkers - a haunting interplay of language and sound.

Julia Hülsmann: Diversity of forms

Pianist and composer Julia Hülsmann, a formative voice on the European jazz scene, will curate the second evening. Her focus is on the variety of forms and approaches offered by improvisation and composition.

The KOKO Trio opens the evening with a mixture of jazz, new music, Japanese influences and punk with marimba, piano and drums.

In the second set, Hülsmann presents the duo Gołos x Jasinska, who combine experimental approaches with electronic elements and song-based structures. Pianist Emilia Gołos and singer Zuza Jasinska create an immersive listening experience that merges the melodic and the atonal.

The evening concludes with Pollon with Strings, a collaboration between the jazz trio Pollon and a string trio. The composition by Theresia Philipp moves between jazz, new music and Eastern church liturgy and combines structure and free expression to create an exciting dialog.

Christian Lillinger: Opening up perspectives

Percussionist, composer and producer Christian Lillinger curates a concert evening that opens up perspectives and opens up new horizons. His motto: musical diversity without genre boundaries.

Kaja Draksler & Irena Z. Tomažin open the evening with a performance that draws on poetry, jazz, traditional folk music and music theater. The duo's soundscapes are fragmented and emotional - an intense interplay of voice and piano.

In the second set, Lillinger presents two groundbreaking works, each of which expanded the boundaries of rhythm, texture and form in very different ways: Iannis Xenakis' Eonta and Elliott Carter's 90+, interpreted by pianist Lorenzo Soulès and the brass ensemble Apparat.

The third part of the evening belongs to the Elias Stemeseder Trio, a classical ensemble with piano, bass and drums, which creates a contemporary cosmos from transcriptions and analyses of antiphonal chants and dance forms.

Finally, HPRIZM, also known as High Priest, brings avant-garde hip-hop aesthetics to the Konzerthaus Berlin. With fragmented beats, microtonal textures and urban memory, he creates immersive soundscapes that transcend genre boundaries.

Why you should be there:

STOP OVER 4 is more than just a concert weekend - it's a glimpse into the future. Here, the idea of a center for jazz and improvised music in Berlin comes a step closer. Over three evenings, three renowned musicians and curators and their line-ups will demonstrate the fascinating, as yet untapped development possibilities that such a center would offer the genre, the artists and the audience.

⏰ When: January 8 to 10, 2026 📍 Where: Konzerthaus Berlin 🎟️ Tickets: €20 / reduced €10 plus booking fee

Immerse yourself in a weekend full of musical diversity and exciting perspectives!