GREGOR HÜBNER - PATRICK FARRANT QUARTETT

In the organizer's words:

SA 13.09.25 | Admission: 19:00 | Start: 20:30

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE JAZZ (STRAIGHT AHEAD - CONTEMPORARY JAZZ)

GREGOR HÜBNER - PATRICK FARRANT QUARTETT

New York-based violinist Gregor Hübner and jazz guitarist Patrick Farrant share a deep connection to the music of Zbigniew Seifert and Richie Bairach, with whom G.Hübner has been working since 1996. The influences can be heard in his own pieces, "Post Coltrane Jazz" and contemporary jazz.

Gregor Hübner is an award-winning composer and violinist, acclaimed by audiences and critics alike for his visionary work in combining different genres. He is active as a jazz musician in New York. (several recordings with R. Bairach, R. Reid, B.Hart, Tim Hagans, among others. In 2017 G.Hübner was honored with the Grand Prize of the New World Composers Competition of the New York Philharmonic. As a composer, he has been commissioned by the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Grand Theatre de Luxembourg and the Tribeka New Music Festival in New York.

P. Farrant has been active as a freelance musician since completing his studies at the Berklee School of Music in the mid-1980s. His virtuoso musicality has seen him appear in a wide variety of formations and cities: Berlin S.F.B. Nachwuchs Preis,S.H. Jazz Preis, Eartha Kitt Band, festivals including Jazz Baltica, "Standard Jazz Festival Poland", "Guitar Summit" Hamburg and Berlin, sideman with Herb Geller, Benny Baily, G.Garzone, N. Landgren, band leader -The Organics, Lutz Büchner - Patrick Farrant Quartett, lecturer at the M.H.L Lübeck, Hamburg.

With:

Patrick Farrant (g, comp.)

Gregor Hübner (vl, comp.)

Gerold Donker (b)

Christian Schönefeld (dr)