New Exhibition
Thursday 29.04 at 20:00 New Exhibition Opening:
Baeume pflanzen, Baeume abhauen
Du wirst viele Dinge sehen, die ich heute schon kenne
by Hans Stuetzer (Hamburg)
Wire-tapping #4: Albert Beger
Thursday 22.04
at 20:30
Wire-tapping #4
New music at Barbur
The fourth meeting in the ‘Wiretapping’ series is proud to host Albert Beger - Musician, Composer, Saxophonist and Teacher - a truly innovative Israeli jazz and improvised music artist who makes music without compromises, for music’s sake with great passion and stamina that over the years have awarded him international achievements.
Albert will open the evening with an improvised solo saxophone piece, after which he’ll join forces with J.C Jones - who has produced the wonderful sounds of the first meeting of the series. To end the evening Albert will join Trek Duo players Nitai Levi (clarinets) and Tom Soloveitzik (Saxophones) in a reeds trio.
Series editor: Tom Soloveitzik
Free entrance
Albert Beger: - Albert plays energetic, soulful pieces conveying a confluence of styles: bebop, hard bop and free jazz, contemporary classical and ethnic music, progressive rock and electronica. He has spent years wood-shedding his instrument, a reflection of his penchant for self-discipline and auto-didactic study and an uncanny love for the saxophone and its seemingly endless aural possibilities. He studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem. He currently holds teaching positions at the Rubin Academy, Haifa University and Muzik - School of Creation and Production. Albert has recorded eight albums of original compositions. He has also collaborated on numerous projects with both local and internationally acclaimed musicians, among which are William Parker, Hammid Drake and James Newton. Albert is the recipient of the Landau Award for Performing Arts (2005) and the prestigious Prime Minister’s Award for Composers (2009).
Jean Claude Jones: - By the time he emigrated to Israel, Jean Claude Jones had developed a jazz career in France and the US, having played in jazz bands since a young age and having studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and the Music Institute of Technology in LA. As a double bass player he became involved in free improvised music since the 1980’s. Over time he added electronics and computer-manipulated sounds to his musical arsenal. JC Jones served as chair of the Jazz Department at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. He has performed and recorded with many leading international and Israeli musicians, dancers, poets and vocal artists, including Stan Getz, Joelle Leandre and Avishai Cohen. JC Jones’s current projects include the Excited Strings duo with cellist Yuval Mesner, Between the Strings trio with viola player Nori Jacoby and violinist Daniel Hoffman, DoubleTake duo with pianist Ariel, Deep Tones for Peace international telematic internet all basses project, and the Myelin project. The driving force behind JC’s work is “finding one’s space.”
Nitai Levi: - Began playing the clarinet at age 7. Attended the Conservatory and the Music Academy school in Jerusalem, and continued his studies at the Jerusalem Academy of Music. Played at the Jazz Festival in Eilat, Israel Festival, Shuni Jazz Festival, White Night in Tel Aviv, Vilnius Jazz Festival, and others. Recorded CDs with several groups, among them the Yellow Submarine Ensemble, Ensemble 105, Chameleon Trio, Yonatan Kretchmer Quartet. Playing both original written music (in concerts, theaters, soundtracks), and improvised music and jazz. Currently playing in several groups, including Rona Kenan, Yonatan Kretchmer Quartet, Trek Duo.
Tom Soloveitzik: - Tom’s music walks the line between improvisation and composition, places the element of sound at center-stage, and is based on the interaction between musicians in real-time. He studied at the University of Haifa and at the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem. Tom has played in Israel, New York and Istanbul and performed with John Butcher, Barre Phillips and J.C Jones, among others. He works with dancers, plays in Trek Duo with Nitay Levi and curates the ‘Wiretapping’ series in Barbur gallery in Jerusalem.
