Sharon Mansur Trio

In the organizer's words:

Trigger

Jazz, Middle Eastern music, metal, electronica, classical music: Sharon Mansur's ACT debut "Trigger" marks a point where the many different paths that the Israeli pianist and keyboardist has taken since her childhood converge. And her deeply felt musical stories open up a hopeful view of a world full of tensions and contradictions from a very personal perspective.

On her ACT debut "Trigger", Sharon Man- sur, together with David Michaeli, double bassist of Israel's jazz export success "Shalosh" and drummer and New Yorker-by-choice David Sirkis, combines all her musical influences into a colorful, amazingly harmonious whole. Powerful rhythms and melodies reminiscent of Sharon Mansur's metal and classical background, such as in the opener "Outside In", are juxtaposed with cinematic, spherical pieces such as "If I Can", quarter-tone lines such as in the keyboard solo of "Big Dreams In Kadikoy" alternate with piano eruptions such as on the title track "Trigger".
"Trigger". And the middle-eastern, uneven rhythm runs through the entire
throughout the album - there is not a single piece in 4/4 time.

Sharon Mansur's music reveals a hopeful view of the world: "Music shows that we can work together, that we share the same emotions, even if we speak different languages. Music is the language of the heart, the language of nature. I hope that I can have a small positive influence on the world around me through music. I am very humble in that respect, I know that I know nothing. I just do what I do best.
And if I can make people from different cultures laugh and cry in one place, then that means everything to me."

Sharon Mansur piano & keyboards
David Michaeli double bass
David Sirkis drums