JAZZ SOMMER: SIRIUS QUARTET FEAT. JOO KRAUS

JAZZ SOMMER: SIRIUS QUARTET FEAT. JOO KRAUS

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Joo Kraus - trumpet
Fung Chern Hwei - violin
Gregor Huebner - violin
Sunjay Jayaram - viola
Jeremy Harman – cello

The Sirius Quartet from New York and trumpeter Joo Kraus met for the first time at his “Herzstücke” series, for which Kraus regularly hosts events at Café Animo in Ulm. The Südwest Presse described what followed as “stellar sounds from New York”: an evening whose echoes linger to this day. The idea of a classical string quartet meeting a jazz trumpeter is not something conventional musical harmony would suggest. But the Sirius Quartet is no ordinary string quartet. Gregor Huebner, Fung Chern Hwei, Ron Lawrence, and Jeremy Harman are all classically trained and, at the same time, outstanding improvisers and composers. Therefore, since its debut concert at New York’s “Knitting Factory,” the Sirius Quartet has been perhaps the only string quartet to perform primarily original compositions or world premieres by living composers, while also not shying away from free improvisation. Joo Kraus is equally at home in many styles. He played in the „Krautrock“ band Kraan as well as with bassist Hellmuth Hattler in the internationally successful acid jazz duo Tab Two, at the Jazzkantine, with DePhazz, with Soullounge, and Klaus Doldinger’s Passport. Together, Kraus and the Sirius Quartet break the conventional boundaries of their instruments and create a new, gripping sound.

DOORS: 07.00 p.m. / SHOW: 08.00 p.m.
TICKETS: presale € 35,00 plus presale fees / evening sale at the door € 45,00 (schools pupils/students half price)
Tickets available at the known ticket agencies EVENTIM und MÜNCHEN TICKET.
With the Abdullah Ibrahim concert hall ticket, you’ll receive a 50% discount on admission (at the door only) to the Sirius Quartet feat. Joo Kraus concert

Festival ticket: €160.00, available from the concierge at the Bayerischer Hof
(Half price for high school and college students)