ROSCOE MITCHELL
featuring Roscoe Mitchell Quintet, Jon Irabagon, PMP Ensemble, Roland Dahinden
Program:
18:00
Roscoe Mitchell: Workshop
20:00
ANTHONY BRAXTON: LANGUAGE TYPE MUSIC conducted improvisation
ROSCOE MITCHELL: WHA-WHA (premiere)
Jon Irabagon - saxophone
PMP Ensemble
Roland Dahinden - conductor
-intermission-
ROSCOE MITCHELL QUINTET
Roscoe Mitchell - saxophone
Tomeka Reid - cello
Silvia Bolognesi - double bass
Dudu Kouate - vocal, African percussion, flute
Tani Tabbal - drums, percussion
Roscoe Mitchell is a founding member of the world renowned Art Ensemble of Chicago, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, and the Trio Space. Internationally renowned musician, composer, and innovator, began his distinguished career in the spirited 1960s of Chicago, Illinois. His role in the resurrection of long neglected woodwind instruments of extreme register, his innovation as a solo woodwind performer, his and his reassertion of the composer into what has traditionally been an improvisational form have placed him at the forefront of contemporary music for over four decades.
A leader in the field of avant-garde jazz and contemporary music, Mr. Mitchell has recorded 87 albums and has written over 250 compositions. His compositions range from classical to contemporary, from wild and forceful free jazz to ornate chamber music. Also, for over 35 years, he has designed an elaborate percussion instrument called the Percussion Cage, consisting of instruments from America, China, Tibet, Africa, Australia, Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, and Turkey, as well many found instruments. He is the recipient of many honors and awards including The American Music Center Letter of Distinction, The International Jazz Critics Poll, Down Beat Magazine etc.
A Filipino-American saxophonist and composer, and alumnus of the jazz programme at Juilliard, Jon Irabagon’s work is an expression both of identity for an often-marginalised minority community, and of his own remarkable musical voice. Time Out New York named him one of the city’s ’25 Jazz Icons,’ and he has worked with legendary names like Lou Reed, Herbie Hancock, and Wynton Marsalis, as well as with some of the most notable and original players on the contemporary scene: Dave Douglas, Mary Halvorson, Barry Altschul, and Mostly Other People Do The Killing. He runs his own label, Irabbagast Records, putting out his own work as well as that of other cutting-edge artists.
Roland Dahinden is a Swiss composer and trombonist. As a trombonist he specializes in the performance of contemporary music and improvisation/jazz. He has given concerts throughout Europe, America and Asia. Composers such as Peter Ablinger, Maria de Alvear, Anthony Braxton, John Cage, Peter Hansen, Hauke Harder, Bernhard Lang, Joelle Léandre, Alvin Lucier, Chris Newman, Pauline Oliveros, Hans Otte, Lars Sandberg, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Daniel Wolf and Christian Wolff have written especially for him. In 2005, the CD Silberen was picked as one of the 'Top Classical Albums of the Year 2004' by The New Yorker.
As a composer he collaborated with visual artists Guido Baselgia, Andreas Brandt, Stéphane Brunner, Daniel Buren, Rudolf de Crignis, Philippe Deléglise, Inge Dick, Rainer Grodnick, Sol LeWitt, Lisa Schiess, with the architects Morger & Degelo, and with the author Eugen Gomringer. His exhibitions with sound installation and sculptors are shown in Europe and America.
Interdisciplinary and super-genre PMP Ensemble focuses on different forms of controlled improvisation and combines classical notation with graphic scores, notated, aleatoric as well as completely improvised passages. The international ensemble includes leading representatives of the experimental and improvisational scene.
Petr Balhar - drums
Jan Bára – guitar
Marcel Bárta – saxophone
Vít Beneš – guitar
Jan Chalupa – drums
George Cremaschi - double bass
Martin Debřička – saxophone
Vojta Drnek – accordion
Jakub Gatěk – trumpet
Luan Goncalves – double bass
Michal Grombiřík – dulcimer
Radim Hanousek – bass clarinet, saxophone
Jana Havláková – violin
Michal Hrubý – bass clarinet, clarinet
Pavel Hrubý – bass clarinet
Didrik Ingvaldsen – trumpet
Milan Jakeš – violin
Jan Jirucha – trombone
Václav Kalivoda – trombone
Daniel Kéry – guitar
Radim Kolář - drums
Martin Konvička – piano
Miloš Kunc – piano
Andrea La Rose – flute
Anežka Matoušková – vocal
Jan Michálek - saxophone, violin
Ian Mikyska - viola da gamba, guitar
Elia Moretti – vibraphone
Mikuláš Mrva – bass guitar, electronic
Jan Nepodal - vibraphone
Anežka Nováková – drums, percussion, vibraphone
Lucie Páchová – vocal, electronic
Vojtěch Procházka – harmonium
Jan Přibil – trumpet
Jan Pudlák - piano
Klára Pudláková - double bass
Anna Romanovská - violin
Štefan Szabó – guitar
Jakub Švejnar – drums
Pavel Šabacký – saxophone
Patrik Švec – saxophone
Filip Tománek – drums, percussion
Vojtěch Vaida – drums
Žaneta Vítová – accordion
Jana Vondrů – vocal, harmonium
Michal Wroblewski – saxophone, clarinet
Pavel Zlámal – saxophone, clarinet