SIMONE WEISSENFELS
appearances in New York
June 2017
THURSDAY, JUNE 1
IBEAM
168 7th Street (Brooklyn, NY)
1st set (8 pm)
Keir Neuringer / Simone Weissenfels
Keir Neuringer . saxophone
Simone Weissenfels . piano
2nd set (9 pm)
Simone Weissenfels . piano
Jonathon Haffner . saxophone
Ben Stapp . tuba
Dalius Naujokaitis . drums
SATURDAY, JUNE 3
LOVE AND MUSIC: THE PIANO
A celebration of the life and art of Connie Crothers
Greenwich House Music School
Renee Weiler Concert Hall
46 Barrow Street • New York City
7:15pm
(doors open at 7pm)
this concert is free to the public
Simone Weissenfels will appear on this program playing a solo set
David Arner (solo piano)
Ursel Schlicht (piano), Andrea Wolper (voice), Ken Filiano (bass)
Mark Gabriele (solo piano)
Tom Thorndike (piano) with Nick Lyons (alto sax), Joanna Sternberg (bass), Roger Mancuso (drums)
Simone Weissenfels (solo piano)
Carol Liebowitz (piano), Bill Payne (clarinet), plus special guests
Aaron Johnson (solo alto saxophone)
Paula Hackett (poetry)
Kazzrie Jaxen & Virg Dzurinko (two pianos)
reception to follow concert
Simone
Weissenfels is one of Germany’s most versatile artists in contemporary
music and improvisation. Since the 1980s she has been active in
experimental, jazz, and classical music circles as an improviser,
composer, organizer, and educator, working throughout Europe, North
America, and Asia. In addition to her collaborations with visual artists
and actors, she has performed with Gilsela May, Willi Kellers, Connie
Crothers, Juini Booth, Marco Eneidi, Elliott Levin, Lol Coxhill, John
Sinclair, Ian Smith, Daniel Carter and many other influential musicians.
Simone has played jazz festivals in Nickelsdorf, Berlin, Leipzig,
Bochum, Nanjin, Columbus (Ohio), and has toured the US, UK, Taiwan,
Switzerland, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, China, Ukraine and throughout
Germany. Her ensemble multiboxx perfomed at the International
Festival in Nanjin, China in 2004 and she also led one of the first
youth exchange projects of young Chinese and German musicians in Nanjing
and Shanghai from 2006 through 2008. This international ensemble
performed the premiere of her composition “lullaby for K.” in Nanjing,
and also in Leipzig at the International Bach-Fest in 2008. She teaches
piano at the world-famous Thomanerchor (The St. Thomas Boys Choir) in
Leipzig.
“This
music is the best improvised piano I’ve heard (yet) this year . . .
totally engaging and full of the muse . . . I give it a MOST HIGHLY
RECOMMENDED, as well as making it the “PICK” of this issue for “best
improvised piano work.”
—Dick Metcalf/Improvijazzation Nation
—Dick Metcalf/Improvijazzation Nation
