Tastentage 2025
March 21. to March 30. 2025
All musicians
Florian Favre- Trio
Friday, 21.3.2025 | Kulturschuppen
The Fribourg pianist Florian Favre presents his trio with a worldly, pop-laden, sensitive and eruptive jazz, a sometimes complex but extremely vital music. Surprising twists and turns and rhythmic sensitivity characterise the interplay with Geneva bassist Manu Hagmann and drummer Arthur Alard from Paris. A sound that knows space and calm, but also physical force, bizarre suddenness and dramatic interaction.
Einige filmische Einblicke ins Konzert des Favre-Trios.
Realisiert von Dominic Büttner, hammerfilm.ch
Seraphim von Werra - Solo
Friday, 21.3.2025 | Chesa Bar
As a young teenager, the multi-instrumentalist Seraphim von Werra from Winterthur found his way to the hand organ through a music shop sale. Growing up with piano and drums in a family of musicians, he completed a master's degree in percussion and became a self-taught accordion player, which he masterfully performs in various formations. In addition to his stylistic diversity, his love of Balkan folk music will be heard in his solo performance.
Einige filmische Einblicke ins Konzert von Seraphim von Werra.
Realisiert von Dominic Büttner, hammerfilm.ch
Trio Laret
Saturday, 22.3.2025 | Festivalzentrum
The compositions of the trio "Laret" combine world jazz and music from the Balkans and are inspired by Macedonian folk dances. The music sounds as if they have thrown odd metres, Middle Eastern timbres, melancholy melodies and daring improvisation into a large cauldron and stirred it up vigorously, inviting listeners to dream.
Einige filmische Einblicke ins Konzert des Trio Laret.
Realisiert von Dominic Büttner, hammerfilm.ch
Marialy Pacheco & Jorge Pacheco
Saturday, 22.3.2025 | Kulturschuppen
Fingers shimmer over keys, creating flying notes, competing phrases, entwining melodies - music that dances. The Pacheco siblings are among the stars of their generation on the piano. Both have won the prestigious Montreux Solo Piano Competition. Their music is inspired by Afro-Cuban heritage, classical music, traditional American jazz and even a little contemporary pop and soul.
Einige filmische Einblicke ins Konzert von Marialy und Jorge Pacheco.
Realisiert von Dominic Büttner, hammerfilm.ch
Kit Downes
Saturday, 22.3.2025 | Kirche St.Jakob
The music of British pianist and organist Kit Downes is full of sound and colour, brilliant and with a fine sensitivity. He is a master of the organ, praised by the international press as "world class". Downes pulls out all the stops and explores the special features and potential of the church organ - with improvisations that are as melodic as they are harmonious. Music like a flowing river, an emotional and spiritual journey!
Einige filmische Einblicke ins Solo-Konzert von Kit Downes.
Realisiert von Dominic Büttner, hammerfilm.ch
Duo Campanula
Sunday, 23.3.2025 | Miraina
Quiet and contemplative music, touching sounds through to racy dance music, that's the Duo Campanula. The musicians create inventive original compositions where the violin, the Schwyzerögeli and the yodel alternate with melody and rhythm at the centre. With their instruments, they set experiences and adventures to music and offer the opportunity to embark on a journey to oneself. Time for relaxation and enjoyment over brunch.
Duo Schaerer-Garcia
Sunday, 23.3.2025 | Atelier Bolt
The renowned Spanish pianist Daniel Garcia and the celebrated Swiss singer Andreas Schaerer create an unforgettable musical soundscape. With his deep roots in flamenco and classical music, Garcia's playing is characterised by both technical mastery and soulful expression. Andreas Schaerer is a vocal artist like no other. With a limitless range and the ability to use his voice as a versatile instrument, Schaerer moves seamlessly between genres.
Triosence
Wednesday, 26.3.2025 | Kulturschuppen
This piano trio, whose name, derived from "trio-essence", refers to the equal status of the instruments, has been around for 25 years in various formations. Pianist Bernhard Schüler creates shimmering soundscapes with his music, which he sometimes refers to as "song
Rosenwinkel-Brodbeck Quartett
Thursday, 27.3.2025 | Kulturschuppen
Kurt Rosenwinkel, jazz guitarist and composer who fascinates audiences worldwide, is one of the most distinctive and prominent voices in modern jazz. With arrangements by Swiss pianist Jean-Paul Brodbeck, he takes up the yearning melodies and romantic harmonies of Johannes Brahms and, together with the rhythm team Traxel-Rossy, transforms them into earthy, groove-emphasised music.
Einige filmische Einblicke ins Konzert des Rosenwinkel-Brodbeck-Quartetts.
Realisiert von Dominic Büttner, hammerfilm.ch
Bernhard Schüler, solo
Thursday, 27.3.2025 | Chesa Bar
The pianist Bernhard Schüler studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, won numerous international competitions and was nominated for the German Record Critics' Award, among others. He has been playing the piano since the age of 7, and later also the clarinet and saxophone. His compositions are characterised by harmony, warmth and confidence. He creates shimmering sound paintings with his music, which he also describes as "song jazz".
Einige filmische Einblicke ins Konzert von Bernhard Schüler. Realisiert von Dominic Büttner, hammerfilm.ch
Raphael Jost Quintett
Friday, 28.3.2025 | Festivalzentrum
Singer and pianist Raphael Jost surprises with his powerful, warm voice and moves easily between jazz and pop with snapshots from his life - catchy and always cleverly packaged. He loves to sing standards from the swing tradition and brings his idols to life on the piano. The five outstanding soloists in the newly formed quintet are united by an irrepressible joy of playing and a love of the jazz tradition.
Einige filmische Einblicke ins Konzert des Raphael Jost-Quintetts.
Realisiert von Dominic Büttner, hammerfilm.ch
Ana Carla Maza Quartett
Friday, 28.3.2025 | Arena
The Cuban cellist, singer and composer Ana Carla Maza, who feels equally at home with samba, bossa nova, tango, jazz and chanson, is conquering the concert stages of the world. As a girl still taking piano lessons, she soon discovered her great love - the cello. Maza's performances with her Latin jazz formation are a concentrated charge of joie de vivre, musical flights of fancy and a declaration of love to Caribbean-Latin American music.
Einige filmische Einblicke ins Konzert des Ana Carla Maza-Quartetts.
Realisiert von Dominic Büttner, hammerfilm.ch
Manon Muellener solo
Saturday, 28.3.2025 | Bar Hotel Chesa Grischuna
The music of the versatile pianist Manon Muellener epitomises all the diversity that jazz has to offer. Muellener's musical explorations, who spent some time in Cuba and absorbed the musical tradition there, oscillate between tradition, modernity and Latin American influences. The journey through her musical universe that the pianist takes you on is characterised by irrepressible energy and captivating groove.
Einige filmische Einblicke ins Solo Konzert von Manon Muellener.
Realisiert von Dominic Büttner, hammerfilm.ch
Nicole Johänntgens «Robin»
Saturday, 29.3.2025 | Kulturschuppen
The sound of "Robin" is characterised by Cuban rhythms and the flair of this Caribbean music, which goes straight to the legs and into the mind, flows through the concert hall and makes everything vibrate with tender and emotional melodies.
Einige filmische Einblicke ins Konzert von Nicole Johänntgens «Robin».
Realisiert von Dominic Büttner, hammerfilm.ch
Maxjoseph
Saturday, 29.3.2025 | Festivalzentrum
The four young musicians of "MaxJoseph" realise their very own idea of folk music. They combine elements of folk music with jazz harmonies, classical music with pulsating rhythms and the familiar with the unfamiliar. Traditions are thus softened in order to create progressive folk music through a symbiosis of this diverse music and the unique sound of the instrumentation with tuba, guitar, violin and Styrian harmonica.
Einige filmische Einblicke ins Konzert von «Maxjoseph».
Realisiert von Dominic Büttner, hammerfilm.ch
Hattori Hanzi
Saturday, 29.3.2025 | Werkstatt Schlosserei Roffler
This trio refutes the notion that samba & punk, electro & free jazz, psychedelic & pop have nothing to do with each other with synthesizers and analogue sound generators such as a Hammond B3 from grandma's time - unconventionally wired and sometimes played in a way that is alienated from its intended purpose. The trio creates a sound with strong grooves, bluesy inserts and jazzy lines that provide danceable surprises and casual catchy tunes beyond the genre pigeonholes.
Einige filmische Einblicke ins Konzert von «Hattori Hanzi».
Realisiert von Dominic Büttner, hammerfilm.ch
Raphael Jost Solo
Saturday, 29.3.2025 | Chesa Bar
Singer and pianist Raphael Jost moves easily between jazz and pop with his powerful, warm voice. His songs are snapshots from his life - catchy and always cleverly packaged. At the same time, he loves to sing swinging standards and revives his idols from the swing tradition such as Oscar Peterson and Monty Alexander on the piano. He has already won the Swiss Jazz Award for his debut album.
Einige filmische Einblicke ins Solo-Konzert von Raphael Jost.
Realisiert von Dominic Büttner, hammerfilm.ch
Gläuffig
Sunday, 30.3.2025 | Kesslerhof
The four musicians have their roots in traditional folk music, which is given a new guise in their compositions with innovative and lively elements from various musical genres, but to which they always pay due respect. The quartet opens up new dimensions for lovers of traditional folk culture as well as those interested in contemporary sounds, always paired with a high degree of musicality and joy in playing.
Abschlusskonzert mit «Kanti-s-wings»
Sunday, 30.3.2025 | Arena
Traditionally, a group of young musicians rehearse a concert programme in a workshop during the festival, this time under the direction of pianist Florian Favre. The "Kanti-s-wings", students from Kanti Chur, which is formed as a new group every year, currently comprises twelve members. They will perform pieces by Florian Favre and their own Lenny Kravitz programme at the closing concert of the festival.
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