Award-winning German pianist Georg Graewe works on the borders of jazz, free improvisation, and contemporary avant-garde. Balancing spontaneous creation with a poetic sense of restraint, Graewe is a “true explorer of sound and thematic development”
Date/Time: Jul 2 2016, 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Vancouver, Roundhouse - Performance CentreAge: All
Cost: $10.00
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Active since the early 70’s, Graewe has worked with John Butcher, Ken Vandermark, and Hamid Drake, while maintaining a his trio with Gerry Hemingway and Ernst Reijseger since 1989. In his deeply moving solo work, “virtually every piece is steeped in the kind of immediacy that can only be expressed when one's discipline is equal to that of his inspiration and technique” (AllMusic).
Part of the RHPC Weekend Pass, available for $32. The events included on this pass are:
Saturday July 2
1:30pm-2:30pm Mattias Risberg and Françios Houle
3:15pm-4:15pm Ron Samworth's Dogs Do Dream
5:00pm-6:00pm Georg Graewe
Sunday July 3
1:30pm-2:30pm Anat Fort / Gianluigi Trovesi
3:15pm-4:15pm Mammal Hands
5:00pm-6:00pm Matthew Halsall & the Gondwana Orchestra
($10 Single-show tickets available at door ONLY.)
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