Raumbespielung #5 - Bahnhofsviertel

19:30-20:00: 11 musicians will play at 11 venues and gather at 8:30 p.m. for a final improvisation with 2 dancers on Jürgen-Ponto-Platz.

• Ulrike Schwarz - Saxophon, Querflöte - Hauptbahnhof Eingangshalle
• Angelika Sheridan - Querflöten - Nizza Hotel
• Carl Ludwig Hübsch - Tuba - 25hours Hotel
• Jürgen Werner - Querflöte, Bansuri - Kaiserpassage
• Bülent Ates - Schlagzeug - Jürgen-Ponto-Platz
• Savas Bayrak - Saxophon - Karlsplatz
• Thomas Bachmann - Saxophon - Kaisersack
• Daniel Guggenheim - Saxophon - Wiesenhüttenplatz
• Fe Fritschi - Akkordeon - Basis Künstlerateliers (Gutleutstr. 8-12)
• Igor Grabez - Trompete - Francois-Mitterand-Platz
• Matthias Muche - Posaune - Weißfrauenkirche
• Katharina Wiedenhofer - Tanz - Jürgen-Ponto-Platz (20:30 Uhr)
• Emma Rasmussen - Tanz - Jürgen-Ponto-Platz (20:30 Uhr)

Our 5th "Raumbespielung" takes us to Frankfurt's Bahnhofsviertel. Not an easy environment, but that's why we don't want to leave out the district, which is fraught with many problems, as a place of action.

About the musicians in detail:

Ulrike Schwarz (sax/flute, Folkwang Hochschule Essen) learned to play the saxophone in a high school big band in Florida and later played in the Baden-Württemberg State Youth Jazz Orchestra. Studied flute and saxophone in Essen (Folkwang Hochschule), several years teaching at music schools (including Leverkusen). Today he plays in various bands. Ulrike Schwarz also works as a music teacher at a primary school.
Als improvisierende Musikerin spielt sie mit Silvia Sauer (voc) und Uli Schiffelholz (dr) im Trio USU und ist regelmäßig in unterschiedlichen Ad Hoc-Formationen zu hören. Sie lehrt an der HfMDK Frankfurt u.a. freie Improvisation und Jazz mit Kindern. (www.ulrikeschwarz.info)

Angelika Sheridan

After studying classical flute at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, for which she received the Folkwang Prize in 1990, she deepened her studies with Ran Blake and John Heiss at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Since 1991 she has focused her artistic focus on contemporary improvisation. She developed, especially on the bass flute, her own sound language by combining conventional sound production with contemporary and self-developed techniques. In addition to contemporary improvised and new music, her work focuses on interdisciplinary projects involving film, theatre, dance and visual arts. She lives in Cologne, where she teaches improvisation and didactics at the University of Music and Dance.
Angelika Sheridan has played with musicians such as Peter Kowald, John Butcher, Frank Gratkowski, Udo Moll, Le Quan Ninh, Isabell Duthoit, Sabu Toyozumi, Gunda Gottschalk, Michel Doneda, Eli Coudoux, Matthias Muche, Claudio Puntin, Sebastian Grams, Paul Lytton, Axel Dörner, Cyril Bondi, Carl Ludwig Hübsch, among others.

She is involved in interdisciplinary projects: such as film music for numerous silent films, the dance project "Sichtlaut" with Geraldo Si, I-Fen Lin (dancers of the Pina Bausch Company), the theater project "Stein auf Stein" with the theater group Monteure 2008, as well as sound art performance within the Monheim Triennale 2023.
Current formations are: Ensemble Hiatus, Duo Ute Völker / Angelika Sheridan, Multiple Joy(ce) Orchestra, Insub Meta Orchestra, Ensemble X.

Carl Ludwig Hübsch:
grew up musically as a clarinetist in the local brass band, later switching to the tuba. At the same time, drummer in punk and rock bands. Mostly self-taught study of music between all kinds of styles such as dance music, rock or New Orleans. Musical staples: Frank Zappa, King Sunny Ade, Dead Kennedys...
Despite all his studies, Hübsch is an incorrigible autodidact and enjoys a lifetime scholarship at his own university.
Carl Ludwig Hübsch composes for small and large ensembles of intuitive or new music and, as a tuba player, is a sought-after improviser or performer at home and abroad. He studied composition and composes for various ensembles such as the Multiple Joy[ce] Orchestra in Cologne, his own groups or for composition commissions.
Hübsch has published three books of interviews with improvising musicians.
He is known from numerous concerts, radio and CD productions as well as theatre music compositions, as an organizer of the concert series "Platform of Undocumented Events", from concert tours almost everywhere.

Jürgen Werner: After classical training on the flute, learning various saxophones, dealing with traditional playing styles (jazz standards, bossa nova), free improvisation became a focus of his musical interest. As a member of the F.I.M. in the 90s, he played freely improvised music in various ensembles (including the Katharsis Ensemble) even after its dissolution.
Travels to Cuba and India brought world music influences and expansions of the instruments (ind. Bansuri, Kalimba).
His musical conception is, apart from dogmatism, purism and stylistic conventions, to incorporate influences from a wide variety of playing styles - from new music, world music to free jazz - into free improvisation.

Bülent Ates, who can be described as a "veteran" of the Frankfurt jazz scene, came to Frankfurt from Istanbul many years ago at the invitation of Albert Mangelsdorff and stayed. He has played with Heinz Sauer, Bob Degen, Harry Petersen and Alfred 23 Harth, among others, and will be well known to F.I.M. guests.

Savas Bayrak moved to Frankfurt in 2001. Since then, the saxophonist and composer has been at home in the world of improvised music in his adopted home of jazz. His current band Savas Bayrak-INFUNKTION shows the energetics and lyricism of his own compositions in the format of the quartet with Bülent Ates on drums, Chris Rücker on bass and Uli Partheil on Fender-Rhodes.
The compositions, inevitably influenced by classical jazz from the forties to the mid-sixties, offer plenty of room for today's free zeitgeist. Furthermore, the duo Château-LaBay with drummer Jean-Philip Lacoure is another field of freedom, in which the sound world of the mouthpiece of improvised music is brought to light by reduction to rhythm and melody. He has been part of the BigBand RheinMainJazzOrchestra (RMJO) since its founding in 2012. Various trio combos (ts, g, dr / ts, bs, dr) provide Savas Bayrak with a platform in which music flourishes in aesthetics; the art of the moment.

Thomas Bachmann studied saxophone with Wilson de Oliveira (graduation with a degree in music education) and with Dave Liebman (Stroudsburg, USA). In 1993 he received the "Förderpreis Musik" from the University of Mainz.
Since 1996 he has been a lecturer for saxophone, improvisation and ensemble in the jazz department of the Mainz University of Music. Since 1997 he has also led big bands and other ensembles at various state high schools, and from 2004 to 2009 he taught jazz saxophone at the Musikwerkstatt Frankfurt (FMW). Since 2018 he has held the office of the state. Since 2012 he has been giving workshops as an "endorser" for the saxophone company "Keilwerth" (Buffet-Crampon, Paris). He is active as a juror for various instrumental and ensemble competitions, e.g. for the State Music Council of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate.

Thomas Bachmann performs with his own formation "Thomas Bachmann Group" (current CD "Hier und Jetzt" released in 2019 by "Unitrecords", Switzerland). He also plays in the Frankfurt Jazz Big Band and the Bob Degen Quartet, among others.

Daniel Guggenheim's path led from Switzerland via Paris, Rio de Janeiro and New York to success. From the very beginning, he has been influenced by strong personalities, such as Jimmy Hendrix, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. Daniel Guggenheim asks himself every time: what does her music tell me and how can it help me move forward?
In 1983 he met Hermeto Pascoal in Brazil. A real stroke of luck. Through the music anarchist Pascoal, Guggenheim learns to live his own music and to explore boundaries again and again.
Whether Paris, New York or Frankfurt, where he has now settled: Daniel Guggenheim's music always creates new images that become an extraordinary experience for everyone involved. He has played with jazz legends such as Elvin Jones, Cecil McBee, Richie Beriech, Billy Hart and David Liebman.

Fe Fritschi
Born in 1994, after completing his accordion studies with distinction, he began studying jazz piano in Mainz with Pablo Held and Sebastian Sternal and has already shared the stage as a pianist and accordionist with greats such as Colin Vallon and Norma Winstone. Active both as a leader and as a sideperson in a wide variety of formations, he is appreciated for his melodic original compositions, but also for his improvisational flexibility and willingness to take risks on both instruments. Particular interest is given to chamber music jazz formats such as the duo with saxophonist Francois Heun or the trio with bassist Grégoire Pignède and drummer Eddy Sonnenschein, but also unusual line-ups such as the Electroacoustic Project (FKA Fenomen 4), which will present its first album in 2023. Fe Fritschi received the Steinway Prize for Jazz Piano in 2023 and was a scholarship holder of the Future Initiative Rhineland-Palatinate and Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Frankfurt e.V.

Matthias Muche
The much-cited "border areas" run like a red thread through the activities of the trombonist and composer Matthias Muche, who lives in Cologne, who uses all forms of sound extension of the instrument in his music, which at times sounds like electronic music, then again takes up rhythmic and melodic idioms from jazz and spins them further.
He studied trombone in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Cologne and completed postgraduate studies in audiovisual media at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.
In addition to improvised music, the focus of his work is on interdisciplinary projects in which he uses very different game structures; with players of speech and soundscapes via external bells, interactive computer graphics or just the trombone.
Muche has performed in over 50 countries and will receive the WDR Jazz Prize in the Improvisation category in 2021. In 2022, the CD productions of his ensembles BONECRUSHER & T.ON will be nominated for the German Record Critics' Award.
Emily Pothast writes in THE WIRE: "Like Vinko Globokar and Stuart Dempster before him, German composer-trombonist Matthias Muche explores this often-overlooked instrument's potential to extend the sonic possibilities of the human body."

Igor Grabez
moved to Frankfurt in 2022. A multi-instrumentalist and composer who played piano and trumpet in the Mimikoto Project and currently plays in the neo-soul band NI-KA. His formative influences range from Kenny Wheeler, Chick Corea, Miles Davis to Alfa Mist, Bokani Dyer and Erik Truffaz. He has discovered a preference for free jazz in the last few years.
Musicians such as Don Cherry, Peter Brötzman and Cecil Taylor have shown that music can also be celebrated and conveyed in a different way. Piano lessons with Danny Grissett and Harry Gansberger in Vienna. Trumpet lessons with Dusko Goykovich. He can be heard on the trumpet every day in the late afternoon in Rödelheim at a bridge.

Emma Rasmussen
grew up dancing at Tivoli Balletschool of Copenhagen, Denmark. There, she received a classical dance education, as well as starting her contemporary dance journey. In 2019, she moved to Frankfurt, to complete her Bachelor of Arts in Dance at the Hochschule für darstellende Künste und Musik. During her education, she refined her ballet technique and has grown interest and skills in the contemporary techniques, working with a variety of choreographers such as Robyn Orlin, Tim Rushton, and Marguerite Donlon, among others. Most recently, she performed Come On, Honey Fly With Me, choreographed by Renan Martins.
Emma enjoys finding new possibilities, through dancing, any time possible. After an injury in June 2022 forced her to step away from her usual dance patterns, she now opens her eyes to new opportunities and a broader view on what it means to be a dancer.

Katharina Wiedenhofer received her diploma in 2006 at the HfmDK in Frankfurt. She has worked with choreographers such as Heitkamp, Santi, Golonka, Limnaios, Spradling, Renshaw, Hennermann, Thiele, Trottier and Forsythe. At Schauspiel Frankfurt and Volksbühne Berlin she danced in productions by Wanda Golonka. At the Stadttheater Fürth she works as a choreographer and dancer in opera and dance productions. She is on the road internationally with the dance pieces for young audiences "elephant walk", "miniMAX", "Rock wie Hose" and "WONDERLAND" by Hennermann. She is responsible for choreographies for musicals, the Fliegende Volksbühne, Landungsbrücken, Kortmann&Konsorten, Theater Grüne Sosse and the Titania Theater, among others. Since 2013 she has been dancing for the company "La Trottier Dance Collective" in Mannheim. At the Frankfurt Opera, she most recently danced in the productions "Capriccio" and "Rinaldo". She teaches at various dance schools for people of all ages in ballet, modern and contact improv, as well as aspiring opera singers in dynamic training and movement.

In 2010 she won the Stuttgart Theatre Prize for "Best Dance Performance 2010", in 2015 the Karfunkel for the production "miniMAX" and in 2018 the Karfunkel for the production "Zertrennt".