Stadtgarten Experimental Band | First Edition

In the organizer's words:

20:00 I Concert I 🎤 Concert hall

Diverse, creative and cooperative: the players in Cologne's improvised and contemporary music scene have the potential to develop and establish their own special voice - playfully and/or compositionally. The newly founded Stadtgarten Experimental Band builds on this strong foundation.

The artistically equal ensemble varies its line-up in every phase of its work, transcends musical and spatial boundaries and offers individually strong voices an outstanding ensemble for working on new compositions and working methods for the same with the aim of stimulating and depicting the creation of contemporary music.

National and international networking is an essential aspect of the project, with a focus on Cologne, the first edition realizes two concerts:

11.04. Stadtgarten Cologne
15.04 schwere reiter, Munich (+ BR recording)

The compositions of the first edition of the project were written by Julia Sanjurjo, Jorik Bergman, Pascal Klewer, Fabian Dudek, Olga Reznichenko and Alexander Parzhuber.

The dates for the second edition with a different line-up and a focus on the Netherlands have also been confirmed for this November at Stadtgarten and BIMHUIS, Amsterdam.

The Stadtgarten Experimental Band is supported by the Musikfonds. The anchor point of the project is the European Center for Jazz and Contemporary Music Stadtgarten Cologne. The project receives additional support from NICA artist development, a funding program of the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia.