Saturday 29.05
at 21:00

Berlin - Jerusalem

Music at Barbur: Alexander Frangenheim, Harold Rubin, Jean Claude Jones

Alexander Frangenheim: Born in Wuppertal, he studied sculpture at the academy of fine arts in Stuttgart and at the same time classical doublebass with Reinald Schwarz.
CDs: duo with Phil Durrant; duo with Günter Christmann; Vario 34 with Lehn, Munthe, Gustafsson, Lovens, Christmann; Christmann’s „con moto“ (music, dance, sound poetry, film) with David Zambrano, Urs Leimgruber, Fine Kwiatkofski, Elke Schipper (dvd); „screen - festival concepts of doing 1999“ mit Yoshihide, Turner, Leimgruber, Schürch, Parkins, Newton, Frangenheim. several cds with Ensemble Zeitkratzer (Lou Reed Metal Machine Music, Merzbow, Alva Noto, ..). coming up: trio Christmann Schipper Frangenheim
He created the music for the experimental film „Lupinen löschen“ by Sabine Schöbel, which was shown at the Berlinale 2007.
Solo cd „the knife again“ on creative sources, 2010.
Groups: trio with Chris Burn and Axel Dörner, duo with percussionist Michael Griener, quartett with Thomas Lehn, LeQuan Ninh, Frederic Blondy.
Intense work with dancers in diverse performing and rehearsing situations.
Collaborations with Julyen Hamilton, Vera Mantero, Benoit Lachambre, Josè Luis Sultàn. Single spots with Sasha Waltz, Katie Duck, Joachim Schlömer, Nigel Charnock, Anna Huber.
From 1992 to 2003 he organized the festival „concepts of doing – Interaktion Tanz Musik“ which became an important european plattform for the exchange of the arts inviting many notable artists for free collaborations during 4 days. (Please see: www.concepts-of-doing.de).
Lives in Berlin since 2005. Created a space in 2009, which will allow him to continue his work with dance and other media.

Harold Rubin: Jazz musician, artist, teacher, and architect, was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1932. Studied classical clarinet. Formed jazz quartet in South Africa and was responsible for organizing communication between black and white musicians for some years before he immigrated to Israel in 1963. In 1986 formed Zaviot quartette with Mark Smulian, playing original music, which received the prize at Eilat Festival 1987. The group performed in festivals and jazz clubs in Europe in 1988/9. He has developed various groups performing in all major festivals in Israel. He has started working with Mark Smulian again on their own new music. 6 albums of his music have been released and he has taken part in others as a guest. He performs in Europe, U.S.A and South Africa and is one of the founders of the Tel Aviv Art Ensemble and still works with the group. Harold was awarded the Landau prize for the performing arts in 2007.

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.”