Guitar
Percussion
Violoncello
Percussion
Trumpet, Electronics, Voice
Set 1
Jakob Bro & Midori Takada
Set 2
Jakob Bro, Arve Henriksen, Anja Lechner & Marilyn Mazur
“Trying to put your finger on Jakob Bro’s guitar style can be like trying to describe the essence of air,” a critic once said about the Danish guitarist. Praised for his minimalist yet emotionally charged playing, he is a former member of Paul Motian’s Electric Bebop Band and of the Tomasz Stańko Quintet. In the first part of his Pierre Boulez Saal debut, Bro is joined by Japanese multi-percussionist and composer Midori Takada for a fully improvised set. He then leads a quartet, performing new music as well as compositions from his 2018 album Returnings together with trumpeter Arve Henriksen, cellist Anja Lechner, and percussionist Marilyn Mazur.
Both parts of the program are world premieres commissioned by the Pierre Boulez Saal.
Palle Mikkelborg has undergone surgery this past month. He is fine but still recovering and therefore unable to perform in this concert as originally announced. We are grateful to Arne Henriksen for stepping in at short notice.
I try to express myself with sound and have no ambition with my instrument other than to create unexplainable moments of beauty together with my collaborators. I see Midori Takada as someone who can do exactly that—turn a moment of nothing into something. Jakob Bro
This quartet consists of four individual sound worlds that can stand alone, be together, and stand alone, together. We can all enter and leave the musical space whenever we want. There are no specific expectations of one another. I have been working on different tone rows, providing each individual instrument in the group with a compositional frame that can be both chordal and singular, fast, slow, loud, quiet, and silent. Jakob Bro
AUDIO LIVESTREAM
The concert will be audio-livestreamed on Pierre Boulez Saal Online, where it will also be available for on-demand listening at a later date.
