Konzert: Li, Schörken, Neubauer

In the organizer's words:

Improvisation concert with:

Li-Chin Li - Sheng
Hanna Schörken - Voice
Fabian Neubauer - Electronics, Drums

Li-Chin Li is a Sheng soloist, composer and performer. She has been working between Taiwan and Europe for the past few years. After studying Chinese music at the Tainan National University of the Arts, Li-Chin Li received a solid education in traditional music. After graduation, she worked for the most selective and prestigious orchestra, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, as a sheng performer. Li-Chin is known for her ability to apply sheng to various art forms and music genres. Through her work, she is committed to exploring the subjectivity of musicians and the diversity of roles in the performing arts. She regularly explores her instrument with young composers of contemporary music in France, the United States and Taiwan, etc. She also plays with European ensembles and orchestras: Cairn in Paris, LINEA in Strasbourg, Lapland Chamber Orchestra in Finland, National Chinese Orchestra in Taiwan, etc. She has been selected for dozens of artistic residencies in her field of experimentation, including Royaumont, Ircam, Cité des Arts - Paris, Centre National de la Danse in Pantin, La Symphonie De Ségries, Asian Cultural Council in New York, Avaloch, Farm Music Institute in the United States.

To the website of Li-Chin Li

Hanna Schörken is a singer in the field of free improvised music, jazz and electronic music. Schörken initially studied English and French literature at the University of Bonn. From 2008 to 2011, she studied jazz singing at the ArtEZ Conservatorium in Enschede and continued her studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Osnabrück and the Conservatoire de Lyon. She also studied at the Cologne University of Music and Dance. With the band 'Ampair:e', a trio with pianist Constantin Krahmer and drummer Bernd Oezsevim, she recorded an album at Maschinenhaus Essen in April 2021, which was released on the Yew Records label in November 2021. The album was nominated for the longlist of the German Record Critics' Award in early 2022. In October 2016, she released her debut album Filán on the Swiss jazz label Unit Records, which she recorded in March 2016 with Constantin Krahmer, Stefan Rey and Thomas Esch at the Loft in Cologne. In 2020, her solo album Luma was released on Leo Records, also recorded at the Loft in Cologne. She worked in Scott Fields' ensemble (Sand, 2023), among others. Tours have taken her to Lebanon, the USA, France and Greece, among other places. Collaboration with many national and international artists. Releases on Relative Pitch Records, Creative Sources Recordings, Umland Records, Unit Records, Yew Records and others. In addition, appearances at lit.cologne in collaboration with WDR.

Fabian Neubauer is a musician and multi-instrumentalist in the field of improvised and experimental music. He explores a variety of instruments, including piano, drums and guitar, as well as various forms of electronic sound generation, such as effects processing and feedback-based analog sound generation. Fabian Neubauer has participated in numerous album productions and has toured in countries such as Estonia, Poland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Italy and Austria. He has worked with artists such as Irena Tomažin, Michael Zerang, Leila Bordeuil, Ryan Carniaux, Patrick Hengst, Hartmut Kracht, Taka Kagitomi, Edis Ludwig, Simon Below, Karl F. Degenhardt, Caroline Kraabel, Mik Quantius, Bastian Buddenbrock, Gunda Gottschalk, Christoph Irmer, Israel Flores Bravo, Duy Luong, Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Beat Keller, Hanna Schörken, Li-Chin Li, Pablo Liebhaber, Sebastian Gramss and Jan Klare and has worked intensively with the New York avant-garde musicians Talibam! and the Moers Festival residents Kevin Shea and Matt Mottel. He has played with various formations at the renowned festival for improvised music, the Moers Festival, and has developed music for several dance companies such as SZENE2WEI and IMA KOKO WATASHI.