2023-10-30 22:07:25
Berlin-The Berlin Jazz Festival is approaching its 60th edition. From Thursday to Sunday (November 2nd to 5th), the organizers have planned almost 40 projects in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. Playful and intuitive elements of music are intended to bring different generations together. From the perspective of artistic director Nadin Deventer, this means looking forward “in the spirit of musical tradition”.
To kick things off, children’s choirs will be on stage at the Jazz Festival for the first time this Thursday. The French quartet Novembre is working on the “Apparitions” project with singing voices between the ages of nine and twelve. The girls’ choir from the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin and the band boys from the Berlin State and Cathedral Choir will be there. They enter into a musical relationship with three avant-garde ensembles from Paris.
We also work with children at the Jazzfest ImproCamp. The aim is to give young musicians interdisciplinary access to improvisation.
The program includes, among others, the US composer, saxophonist and flautist Henry Threadgill with a commissioned composition for his ensemble Zooid and the Berlin formation Potsa Lotsa XL by saxophonist Silke Eberhard. The Brit Fred Frith forms a cross-generational trio with the trumpeter Susana Santos Silva and the drummer Mariá Portugal.
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Founded as the Berlin Jazz Days in 1964, the Jazzfest Berlin is one of Europe’s oldest and most renowned festivals of its kind.
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