Rieko Okuda (Japonia)
Antti Virtaranta (Finlandia)
Mateusz Rybicki
Start: 19.30

Wstęp: 40 PLN

Rieko Okuda
Rieko Okuda is a pianist and a composer from Japan. She began to play Classical music at the age of 3. In her young age, she attended to Kaizuka city Piano Competition in Osaka, and got the first prize. She also studied Music Therapy at Doshisha Women’s College. Music Therapy led her into Contemporary music, Improvised music, and Jazz. After her study in the college, she moved to USA to study Jazz music. She fell right into the Jazz scene in USA, performing with some of the great American Jazz musicians (Bob Mintzer, Jon Faddis, John Fedchock etc) at several jazz festivals such as North Texas Jazz Festival, Nortredam Jazz Festival to name a few. A couple of years later, she got interested in Free Jazz and Improvised music while she was in Phliladelphia. She performed with the great improvisers includes Marshall Allen (from San Ra Orchestra), Elliott Levine (recorded with Cecil Taylor), and Calvin Weston (recorded with Ornette Coleman). Her interests in Improvised music led her to move to Berlin. She performs with various musicians in Berlin ex. Tobias Delius, Ignaz Schick, Axel Dörner, Els Vendaweyer, and Linda Frederickson, ect. Also, she collaborates with contemporary dancers such as Akemi Nagao, Jenny Ocampo, and Annapaola Leso (from Sasha Waltz.) She performs at several experimental festivals: A’Larme Festival, JOE Festival Essen, Brda Contemporary Music Festival, Sound Disobiedience, XChange Festival, Experymental Festival, Flux Festival, and Soundance Festival to name a few. In 2017 and 2018, she got the residency in Elektronik Music Studio (EMS) in Stockholm, Sweden. This residency experiences inspired her to Electro-Acoustic field, and she started to invite the electronics to her piano solo pieces. Her first Electro-Acoustic solo album „Paranorm” was released from Japanese record lable, Athor Harmonics, on Feburary 2018. „Paranorm” was performed at Koncertkirken Blagards Plads (DK), Ausland (DE), FLUX Festival (DE), and Vardklockans Församling (SE). In 2020, she has gotten the residency in Visby International Centere for Composers (VICC) to extend her experience, and find more possibilities to create various sounds and composition techniques.
http://www.riekookuda.com

Antti Virtaranta
Antti Virtaranta is a Finnish bassist. Born in Stockholm, Sweden, he has moved from place to place throughout his life. As a teenager he started playing bass in math rock bands. He went to Philadelphia, University of the Arts, to study jazz. There he was introduced to free jazz and improvised music which led to his relocation to Berlin in 2011. Since then he has been performing throughout Europe and Japan in different groups.
His musical influences lie in mathcore, electronic music, jazz, and contemporary classical music. He takes various elements from each and weaves them together to create his sound. He has performed with many artists including Tristan Honsinger, Elliot Levin, Axel Dorner, Silke Eberhardt, Ignasz Schick and many more. He also collaborates with visual artists and dancers.
https://avirtmusic.weebly.com
https://anttivirtaranta.bandcamp.com

Mateusz Rybicki is an improviser who plays the clarinet and tenor saxophone. He currently lives and works in Wrocław. Constantly, in different configurations, he cooperates with double bassist Zbigniew Kozera. He cocreates trio Sundogs and leads quartet Ascetic. His inspirations include both Afro-American free jazz, European improvised music, as well as contemporary music, baroque music, minimalism, ethnic and traditional music. In addition to concerts, he has also cooperated with dancers and theater. He had the opportunity to play and collaborate with such artists as: Axel Doerner, Tristan Honsinger, Antonio Borghini, Peter Brotzmann, Steve Noble, Adam Pultz Melbye, Harri Sjorstrom, Noid, Matija Schelander, Mark Tokar, Emilio Gordoa, Piotr Damasiewicz, Gerard Lebik, Nicholas Trzaska, Wacław Zimpel, Paweł Szpura, Dominik Wania, Maciej Obara, Irad Mezliah etc.
https://multikultiproject.bandcamp.com/album/xu