Kammer Klang - Aug 3rd, the VORTEX

From Paris:
BENOIT DELBECQ

Delbecq figures today among the most creative musicians is the European scene ... Enlightened experiment of a music decidedly personal in the way it links apparently contradictory influences from the freest improvisation and the ultra-sophisticated constructions of contemporary composers as such as Ligeti and Conlon Nancarrow.
"Plenty of forward-thinking jazz pianists have been painted with a modern-classical brush, but few have approached improvisation armed with the vocabulary demanded by Cage, Ligeti and the like with the diligence and flair as Delbecq".
http://www.delbecq.net

From New York:
TANYA KALMANOVITCH

Violist and violinist Tanya Kalmanovitch performs contemporary jazz, classical music, and many things in between. Based in New York City since 2004, she has been named "Best New Talent" by All About Jazz, while Time Out New York identified her as “the Juilliard-trained violist who’s been tearing up the scene”. Tanya has performed with a diverse range of artists including Mark Turner, Benoît Delbecq, Mark Helias, Dominique Pifarély, Andy Laster, Tom Rainey, Ernst Reijseger, Mat Maneri, and the Turtle Island String Quartet, Martin Hayes, John Cage and Shujaat Husain Khan.
Kalmanovitch is an exceptional musician. " In soloing she thinks compositionally, with an expressive contrast between the astringent chromaticism of her lines and compositions and her warmly malleable tone". The Irish Times.
http://www.tanyakalmanovitch.com

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