This essay was written as part of my course work at University of Sydney in October/November 2024. Thanks to Rachel Campbell for the helpful reviews. Introduction In this essay I seek to investigate how discourses around coloniality and decolonization in jazz and in music institutions relate to Third-Stream Music. Third-Stream Music is presented as a case example to high-light the

I’m very grateful to have been admitted as a doctoral research student at the University of Sydney, Australia. My deep appreciation goes to everybody who made this step possible and supported me throughout these last years. After three years of planning I look forward to reconnecting with my place of birth through this way and forming new relationships. I will

Danke an Susanne Kübler vom Tagesanzeiger für das Interview und den Artikel! Musiker in der Corona-Krise: Wenn 4000 Franken Lohn als Luxus gelten Das Geld ist knapp, der Alltag kompliziert, doch die selbstständigen Musikerinnen und Musiker kamen bislang einigermassen gut durch die Pandemie. Das könnte sich bald ändern. Susanne Kübler «Viele werden aussteigen müssen»: Wenn von Kultur die Rede ist,

I answered fiveteen questions by Tobias Fischer, from 15questions.net. Here’s a couple of answers. Find the full interview here! What do improvisation and composition mean to you and what, to you, are their respective merits? It’s interesting to me how, today, we tend to separate those two words in a dualistic way. I think that has to do with our

“I play the piano like a man (…) I get the respect that lady divas don‘t get, because I’m one of the guys.” Shirley Horn I’ve been struggling lately with questions about gender conformity and queerness. There’s been a lot of talk about the gender bias in jazz these days. A lot of performative activism, but few ideas for structural

Im folgenden einige Wort über das Trio Nr.2 (op.67) in E-Moll Dmitri Schostakowitschs, welches ich zusammen mit der Violinistin Cosima Bodien und der Cellistin Isabel Gehweiler im April 2020 aufnahm. Der Text stammt aus einer Arbeit, den ich im Rahmen meines Studiums zum diesem Trio verfasste. Shostakovich: piano trio no. 2 in e-minor, op. 67 by Dmitri Shostakovich Entstehungsgeschichte Das

Recently I have been helping and visiting some friends, who are forming a community and space for artists and creatively working people in Crémines, a village in the french speaking part of Switzerland. I wrote the following text to give you and idea of the project… Read more about this here. Are you lost? Is what you ask yourself, when

Interview with German Pianist Pablo Held, January 2019 http://www.pabloheld.com/ Ascent by Pablo Held Also check out Pablo’s interview series with fantastic musicians, including Norma Winstone, Bill Stewart, Kevin Hays and many others: https://pabloheldinvestigates.com/ Press here for #English Max: Dein Trio gehört für mich zu den spannendsten, Bands in Europa im Moment. Wie habt ihr euch eigentlich kennen gelernt? Pablo: Als

It’s the calm before the storm in Europe. As numbers of cases and deaths will surge in the next week, I find myself sticking to my phone reading news, trying to inform myself and understand what so many experts understand so much better than I ever will. I think, a lot of artists find themselves in a similar place like