Masterkonzerte Jazz & Contemporary Music

Master Music Performance – Jazz and Contemporary Music

Konzerte: 1.–3. September 2025

Mo, 1. September

19.30 Uhr
Lasse Ammann
NamNam

Nordic melancholy and modern jazz influences meet in a set of original compositions. Marco di Bari (guit), Maxence Nappez (dr), tba (b), tba (tp)

Di, 2. September

19.30 Uhr
Maxence Nappez
À l’écoute du vide

Filtrage fréquentiel du spectre sonore : du point de vue d’un neutrino.
Au seuil de l’insouciance et de la raison, les fréquences furtives nous offrent un périple mêlant légèreté et vibrations. Ainsi, le lepton reste de marbre face aux harmoniques invisibles. Murmures d’un voyageur intangible. L’écho d’un rien à travers l’invisible.
Lucien Palak (sax), Lennart Schandl (el b), Loïc Baillod (b), Maxence Nappez (dr)

21.15 Uhr

Thomas Canna

NOŌSPHERE

NOŌSPHERE is a term derived from the Greek words nous (= mind) and sphaira (= sphere).
It refers to the organization of complex social networks through human thought, promoting greater self-awareness. Following this idea, the trio undertakes a series of studies focusing on the possibilities of extending/compressing a rhythmic event through improvisation and compositional processes. The work is based on the acoustic concept of beating and superimposition’s technique where rhythms, sounds and silence become intertwined to create new sonic structures.
Loïc Baillod (b), Thomas Canna (perc & objects), Benjamin Jaton (b)

Mi, 3. September

19.30 Uhr

Buchuan Zheng

Musicians hailing from Beijing, Strasbourg , and Jura have converged in Bern to form this idiosyncratic ensemble.
Seamlessly blending genres from jazz to power rock and ballads, they naturally dissolve musical boundaries in their performances. Listening to their shredding, one can easily envision standing atop a castle surrounded by lemon trees.
“Radioactive horşe”: Damien Kuntz (dr), Maxence Nappez (trb), Buchuan Zheng (el guit)

21.15 Uhr

Marco di Bari

Liminal

Liminal to borders, to perception, from the abstract breeze to the magnificent shell of chords. Sensations, redundant feelings coping with scrapes of bare necessities.
Marco Di Bari (el guit & ac guit), Benjamin Jaton (b), Joshua Le Blanc-Demers (dr & objects)

Master Music Pedagogy – Jazz and Contemporary Music

Konzerte: 4./5. und 8./9. September 2025

Do, 4. September

19.30 Uhr

Conor Buckley

Jack’s Kettle wants to share the cathartic joy of sponta- neous energy with the audience. Their music is in dialogue with everchanging circumstances, blending traditional Irish melodies with aspects of rock, fusion and improvisation.
Conor Buckley (el guit), Joshua LeBlanc-Demers (dr), Lennart Schandl (b), Robin Rindlisbacher (keys)

21.15 Uhr

Joel Müller

SureFaces

Through your story you will see the faces that only you can see. Let us take you into our world.
N. N.

Fr, 5. September

19.30 Uhr

Valentin Descloux

TAQL

Genre : Math Rock Progressif
TAQL, c’est quatre humains qui partagent une passion pour la musique trop forte, les riffs compliqués, les mau- vaises blagues, les tartes aux pommes et la cannelle.
Valentin Descloux (dr), Nil Flückiger (b), Sébastien Minguely (guit), Elori Baume (sax)

21.15 Uhr

Athina Dill

COCON JAVEL

COCON JAVEL spielt hier laut und wild, aus der Dringlich- keit nach einer starken Existenz. Gegen die Angst, für den Mut. Eine Suche nach Umbruch – beginnend bei sich selbst. In ihrer Musik thematisiert die Band drängende gesellschaftliche Fragen wie das Verhältnis zum eigenen Körper, psychische Gesundheit sowie die Herausforde- rungen der Selbstoptimierung.
Julie B. (voc, synth, field recordings), Mélusine Chappuis (keys, voc), Athina Dill (dr)

Mo, 8. September

19.30 Uhr

Sandra Brander

Security is more than a state – it is a feeling, a connection, a presence. We find it in the warmth of a familiar voice, in the deep grounding of a bass note, but also in the spaces between, in trust, in togetherness. The warmth of a voice before it fades, the weight of a note that lingers in the air, the hush between sound and silence.
This concert is a conversation between voices and bass, between movement and stillness. A search for the kind of safety that does not confine but opens. A safety that lets us breathe, resonate, and be.
Sandra Brander (voc), Sibylle Erb (voc), Emile Schaffener (voc), Nicolas Winter (el b), Senna Manders (voc)

21.15 Uhr

Jessica Manga

Fengári

Eine klangliche Tasse Tee, eine sinnliche Reise durch Geschmäcker, Düfte und Stimmungen. Zwischen träume- rischen Melodien und energetischen Klangwelten, die vom Quintett stimmungsvoll und malerisch umgesetzt werden.
Jessica Manga (voc, composition), Nayan Stalder (hackbrett), Florian Pfister (tp), Valentin Bezzola (b), Pascal Lorenzetti (dr)

Di, 9. September

19.30 Uhr

Benoît Bricafiori

Floating Words

L’univers sonore de ce quartet explore les émotions qui ne peuvent être dites avec des mots. Une musique naïve qui n’a qu’une seule vocation : l’authenticité.
Benoît Bricafiori (p, comp), Paul Butscher (tp/flh), tba (b), Pascal Lorenzetti (dr)

21.15 Uhr

Benjamin Jaton

Trêve

Un jeu implique l’accord et donc le non-accord. On peut suivre, diriger, intégrer, exclure ; entendre, être entendu ou se faire entendre. Dans un espace sonore pensé comme lieu de conflit, la pratique musicienne engage un travail sur les contradictions inhérentes aux structures et aux objets musicaux qu’elle met en jeu.
Robin Rindlisbacher (p), Michael Cina (dr), Benjamin Jaton (b)

Master Music Composition – Contemporary Jazz

Konzerte: 10.–12. September 2025

Mi, 10. September

19.30 Uhr

Flurina Zehnder

Mermaids, barbies, serious music? Who knows what is going to happen? Maybe everything all at once?
N. N.

21.15 Uhr

Ruiqi Wang

Sometimes Rachael

Grass is too green. TV is bad. My cat-shaped dolphinfox is an anthropologichoreographer. Grey is green; green is –. I changed unicorn. I like spicy noodles.
Ruiqi Wang (voc, synth, electronics, stage events)

Do, 11. September

19.30 Uhr

Damien Kuntz

RAMIFICATIONS

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$ cat ~/quotes/mduras
« Le mot ‹ écrit › ne conviendrait pas. Je me suis trouvée devant des pages régulièrement pleines d’une petite écriture extraordinairement régulière et calme. Je me suis trouvée devant un désordre phénoménal de la pensée et du sentiment auquel je n’ai pas osé toucher et au regard de quoi la littérature m’a fait honte. »
$ cat ~/.thoughts/oqerkngqo
>>Rejeter la catégorisation et l’étiquette.
>>Myriades de points blancs, noires sont les silhouettes.
>>Toucher l’inconnu, admirer l’entre, ne pas consentir,
>>Rêver du passage, plutôt que d’attiser l’ire.
tba

21.15 Uhr

Joshua LeBlanc-Demers

ICSC-X

A seven-movement suite that explores the combinational properties of three-note groups. Each movement uses one of the 12 categories of three-note interval class sets, re- vealing the innate beauty within their logic and structure and allowing the music to emerge from them.
Ruiqi Wang (voc, synth), Ludmilla Mercier (fl), Yuki Kataoka (cl), Judith Knöchelmann (cl), Mattia Facchini (alto, fl, cl, bass cl), Lucien Palak (t sax), Mireia Pellisa Martín (bari sax), Artem Matviichuk (tp, flh), Carlo Bechtel (tp, flh), Florian Weiss (trb), Pere Molines Tur (trb), Buchuan Zheng (guit), Cole Frieman (guit), João Arrobas (p), Ulysse Loup (el b), Benja- min Jaton (b), Damien Kuntz (vib, perc), Thomas Canna (dr, perc), Joshua LeBlanc-Demers (comp, dir)

Fr, 12. September

19.30 Uhr

Adham Zidan

How It Ends

A Composition by Adham Zidan For the Eschaton Ensemble
Get Out of The Sewer / Becoming Awake / Situation Normal / Becoming Progress / Quandary / Moderation / Becoming Decay / Under the Sun
Broken circles don’t go round until the schism is found and drowned in the river, baptized by the sound: once in a hurry, twice then bound by the laws of Earth (the ground) shifting beneath it, shifting around the clock that waits for no town – the streets might be empty but the spirit surrounds.
tba