In the organizer's words:

Ingrid Laubrock & Marta Warelis

An exciting and intimate duo project by two of today's leading European-American improvisers is on the program with a concert by the German saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, who lives in Brooklyn, and the Polish pianist Marta Warelis, who lives in Amsterdam. Laubrock, a saxophonist and composer who teaches at the Berklee Institute for Jazz and Gender Justice, Columbia University and the New School, is at the center of today's Brooklyn avant-garde, having found new ways to organize and situate improvised music. She explores the boundaries of musical frontiers and creates multi-layered, often evocative soundscapes. Warelis grew up in Poland, studied in the Netherlands and has lived in Amsterdam since 2014, where she plays in chamber music improvisation ensembles and duo formations, among others. In 2022 she released her solo album "A Grain Of Earth". Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead raved that Warelis can bang out block chords, rattle strings, spatulate keys and unwind meandering, singing right-hand lines. This very special duo promises improvisational art at the highest level.

Ingrid Laubrock - sax
Marta Warelis - p

Stemeseder & Lillinger Quartet - Umbra II (feat. Peter Evans & Joe Sanders)

"Umbra" is the second part of the album trilogy by Austrian pianist, electronic musician and composer Elias Stemeseder and German drummer and founder of Plaist Records, Christian Lillinger, which stands for "genre-free" music. In "Umbra", historical instruments from the Baroque period such as the spinet are also alienated and expanded in terms of sound, as an exploration of the physical principles of time and space. "Umbra" is conceived as a duo plus guests. Stemeseder and Lillinger have invited the New York trumpeter and sound researcher Peter Evans, who plays trumpet and piccolo trumpet here, as well as the US bassist Joe Sanders, who currently lives in France. Sanders, born in Milwaukee in 1984, studied at the Brubeck Institute with Christian McBride and at the Thelonious Monk Institute. In the New York Times, saxophonist Joshua Redman described him as "one of the greats of his generation and one of the most active and most imitated musicians on the scene today." In addition to Redman, Sanders has also played with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and Charles Lloyd, among others.

Christian Lillinger - comp/dr/samp/synth
Elias Stemeseder - comp/spin/synth/efx
Peter Evans - tr
Joe Sanders - b

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