An exciting and intimate duo project by two of today’s leading European-American improvisers is on the programme 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 centre of today’s Brooklyn avant-garde, having found new ways to organise 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 improvisation at the highest level.
Ingrid Laubrock – sax
Marta Warelis – p