BANDA NOVA FEAT. FILIPPA GOJO

In the organizer's words:

Filippa Gojo - vocals | Michael Heupel - flute | Moritz Preisler - piano | Jacob Hirsch - bass | Johannes Pfingsten - drums

Banda Nova is the union of four musicians from Cologne and Bonn who are united by a long-standing friendship and a great love of Brazilian music. In this band they live out both and passionately combine their exuberant joy of playing, the traditional repertoire of Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Bosco or Hermeto Pascoal, for example, and the diverse musical styles from forró and choro to samba and bossa nova. Since last year, the four have found the perfect companion for this musical journey in the exceptional singer Filippa Gojo

Filippa Gojo
Even as a little girl, Filippa Gojo was given the nickname "opera singer" when she was pushed around the supermarket singing in a baby carriage. Although her focus has since shifted more towards the broad field of jazz, her passion for her instrument has remained the same. Encouraged by piano teachers and singing teachers at the music school in her home town of Bregenz, she could already be heard on professional jazz stages in the Lake Constance region at the age of 15.
When her jazz singing studies took her to the University of Music and Dance in Cologne, she was soon in the thick of the action with German jazz greats and renowned ensembles such as the WDR Big Band, as well as her own quartet.
She gained further inspiration and experience during a semester abroad at the "Conservatorium van Amsterdam" in the winter semester 2010/2011.
After completing her diploma in jazz singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne, Filippa also completed her master's degree in her adopted home. In 2014, she was the first singer to be awarded the Horst and Gretl Will Scholarship from the City of Cologne for jazz and improvised music, and in 2015 she and her "Filippa Gojo Quartet" received both the band prize of the New German Jazz Award and the soloist prize.
From 2016 to 2023, Filippa Gojo was a lecturer in jazz and pop singing at the Freiburg University of Music. Since 2023, she has been a professor of jazz singing at the University of Music in Nuremberg.
"This music touched my soul" (Kenny Garrett)
"(...) And only very few singers can do that: entrust the unspeakable to the sound and an extremely differentiated rhythm" (Hans-Jürgen Linke, FAZ)
"Filippa Gojo's strength is that she has retained the intuitive, the original and yet still moves her voice in a trained, stylistically confident manner." (Anja Buchmann, DLF)

Moritz Preisler
Moritz Preisler (*1991 in Bonn) is a pianist and composer who lives in Cologne.
He studied at the Cologne University of Music and Dance with Sebastian Sternal, Hubert Nuss, Claudius Valk, Niels Klein, Paulo Álvares, Frank Gratkowski and Jürgen Friedrich and graduated in 2021 with a Master of Music. As a composer, he operates in a field between contemporary music and various experimental music currents. He works intensively with aleatorics and explores the boundaries between musical fields to create dense, multi-layered soundscapes. He mainly writes music for piano and chamber music in smaller ensembles. Recent works include his piano cycle "Chiasma" and his two piano trio cycles "Raureif" and "Verve".
In 2021, he composed the work "Konturen" for violin and electric guitar, a contemporary homage to Astor Piazzolla to mark his 100th anniversary. The following year, the piece was premiered as part of the multidisciplinary project "Stories For Astor" (music, dance and light art by Jacqueline Hen) by violinist Ségolène de Beaufond and the duo Ségotal with Tal Botvinik on guitar.
Moritz Preisler leads several ensembles in which he is both composer and performer: The Moritz Preisler Trio with David Helm on double bass and Jan Philipp on drums was founded in 2017 and released a recording of the trio cycle "Raureif" on the Cologne label KLAENG Records in 2022.
Other such ensembles include a trio with double bassist Jan Blikslager and percussionist Mathieu Clement as well as the collective composer-performer trio "De Beaufond / Preisler / Wittbrodt with Ségolène de Beaufond, violin and Emily Wittbrodt, cello. As a pianist, he is a member of a wide range of ensembles and bands as a performer and improviser. The spectrum ranges from duo to orchestra, stylistically in a variety of directions from art and popular music as well as from purely musical to interdisciplinary projects. Examples include the quintet of Colombian musician Daniel Tamayo, the Brazilian music collective "Banda Nova" and the French "Orchestre National de Jazz des Jeunes" (2019 to 2021 under the direction of Franck Tortiller), but also his work as a classical pianist at the Bonn Opera, as a dance accompanist, in silent film improvisation, setting visual art to music at the Max Ernst Museum in Brühl and as a pianist in improvisational theater at the Haus der Springmaus in Bonn. Concerts have already taken him to various European countries (Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands) and to Colombia.
He is also a piano teacher at the municipal music schools in Bonn and Düsseldorf.

Michael Heupel
Michael Heupel studied flute at the Cologne University of Music. From 1980 to 1985 he was a member of the multimedia group Boury. Since 1984 he has also performed as a soloist with his own compositions. He has toured Asia, Africa and Latin America with Norbert Stein's Pata Masters. He has been part of many of Norbert Stein's Pata projects for many years. In a duo with Xu Fengxia he played the bass flute and the subcontrabass flute. In 1990 he founded his own quartet. He has also worked with musicians such as Markus Stockhausen, Christoph Haberer (including JazzFest Berlin), Christopher Dell, Christian Ramond, Jeff Cascaro, Stefan Bauer, in the James Choice Orchestra and the group Flautomania (with Christian Torkewitz, Christian von Kaphengst and Andreas Molino). He has recorded four varied duo CDs with guitarist Uwe Kropinski. He has also worked as a session musician with Die Fantastischen Vier (Unplugged) and Unheilig (Unplugged).
Heupel teaches jazz flute at the Cologne University of Music

Jacob Hirsch
Bassist Jacob Hirsch has established himself as a newcomer in the Bonn jazz and improv scene. In the course of his musical career, he has already collaborated with a number of organizations, e.g. the Bonn Opera, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the Bonn Cinematheque and various artists of different styles and disciplines

Johannes Pfingsten
Johannes Pfingsten was born in Bonn-Röttgen in 1991. He only discovered the drums at the age of 14, but knew from his first contact with the instrument that it would shape and determine his later life.After his first band experiences with various jazz combos in Bonn, he decided to study music in Osnabrück in 2012, majoring in jazz drums.After taking instrumental lessons at the Bonn Municipal Music School in Bad Godesberg, he studied "Music Education" in Osnabrück for 4 semesters. In 2014, he transferred to the Cologne University of Music and Dance, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Music in 2018. In 2016 he founded the drum'n'bass/electronic duo "Wallfacer" (Pfingsten/Franke) and since then has performed throughout Germany and at festivals in Switzerland and Italy. Since 2017 drummer in various formations such as "Flonks" (free improvising trio), "Thieves in Love" (experimental rock/blues), "Nina's Rusty Horns" (Dixie/New Orleans), "Thiago Gois Band", Banda Nuova (samba/forró), "Almost Nailed It" (rock/jazz). Johannes Pfingsten gained a lot of experience in bands of various genres, such as funk, hip hop, rock and many more.Today he plays in various jazz formations and experiments with electronic soundscapes with his drum and bass duo "Wallfacer".

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