Duo of harp and drums
Unusual duo of harp and drums. The two instruments rarely meet in this combination. Bringing their sound worlds together offers an exciting musical challenge, which the two instrumentalists playfully tackle in their program of arrangements and original compositions. The result is unique timbres, wondrous harmonies and strong contrasts between strings and drums.
Melis Çom has been playing the harp since she was twelve years old. She studied in Istanbul at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Conservatory and in 2012/2013 for a year in Paris at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Boulogne- Billancourt. She lived in Istanbul for 10 years where she played in orchestras such as the Presidental Symphony Orchestra and the Istanbul Cemal Reşit Rey Orchestra. She has lived in Munich since 2019 and works as a freelance harpist in the fields of classical music, new music and jazz. In 2022 she was awarded the DAAD prize by the HMTM. As an orchestral harpist, she has already played here with the Munich Symphony Orchestra and the Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich. In her latest project Harp O'clock, she explores the combination of harp with electronics, improvisation and a wide variety of instrumentations in duo or trio.
Flurin Mück, born in Basel in 1992, completed his bachelor's degree in jazz percussion there. He has lived in Munich since 2015, where he completed his Master of Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in 2017. Since then, he has been working as a freelance musician. He is a permanent member of the bands Dreiviertelblut, the Hannah Weiss Group and Gerd Baumann's B-Parade. With various line-ups, he has performed at Circus Krone Munich, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the Jazzopen Stutgart. As a percussionist and sound artist, Flurin Mück is regularly involved in film music recordings, for example for the German-English film "Trautmann".