Carte Blanche Tamriko Kordzaia

Zurich-based pianist Tamriko Kordzaia had already made a name for herself in her native country Georgia as an interpreter of Haydn and Mozart. After moving to Switzerland at the end of the 1990s, she continued this occupation, but increasingly turned her attention to new and experimental music. As a result, she can now be found on a wide variety of stages and festivals throughout Europe: at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, at Wien Modern, the Jazz Festival Willisau, at Ambient Cologne and Musik Protokoll Graz, at Sonic Matter, at Le Singe in Biel or at Café OTO in London... and it is precisely in this spirit that she also designs her Carte Blanche.

The idea behind the program of her Carte Blanche is to open up spaces by crossing the most diverse music scenes and juxtaposing experimental, new, freely improvised, old, folk and electronic music or genres oriented in completely different directions - creating collisions, abrupt, unsubtle transitions, in order to ultimately hear how close all this exists next to each other and how much common ground there is despite all the differences.

On the first evening Felix Profos and Peter Conradin Zumthor will christen their new CD with the title "GRUND". The composition GRUND is a single large form of about 50 minutes duration, kept at a continuous tempo of 15 bpm: figures spinning and wandering in wide and quiet orbits, elemental and persistent. "GRUND" sounds deep and monstrous, the compositions are moody and arrogant and in the best sense: obstinate!

Closing the evening will be Australian guitarist, composer and improviser Oren Ambarchi together with Cologne techno king Thomas Brinkmann. Together they will present a duo set specially devised for this evening. Who knows where these two great musicians will take us - into worlds of minimal techno? Into free improvisations? Towards strictly conceptual musical structures? Let's be surprised!