This is the fifth in a series of events - 'HIT & RUN' - curated by Israeli pianist Maya Dunietz for Café Oto throughout April and early May. 'Hit & Run' will feature musicians that she respects and admires covering a range of experimental and underground music.

This is the first in what we hope to be an ongoing series of events curated by international musicians.


FRITZ WELCH

Fritz Welch is a drummer, percussionist and vocalist determined to stretch the escalator of possibilities into the bloodshot eye of results. He currently plays with Brittle Hammer Trio, FvRTvR, Peeesseye and a duo with Neil Davidson. He has played with Tamio Shiraishi, Assaf Talmudi, Blood Stereo, Michael Vorfeld, Usurper and John Butcher among others. A longtime Brooklynite of Texas origins, he is now pleased to be based in Glasgow.

Fritz Welch website

Photo: David Lobato

KEREN ROSENBAUM

Choreographic composer/cellist Keren Rosenbaum, was born in Israel in April 1970 and started composing music at the age of 7 and taking the cello seriously at the age of 30.

Rosenbaum came to New York in 2004 and been living there since. She is founder of the Reflex Ensemble, a unique collective of classical musicians, jazz musicians and actors, as well as lighting, sound, photography and video artists. In her compositions, Rosenbaum employs pre-recorded soundtracks, live electronics, contemporary notation, and her signature conducting-via-earphones technique. While structured and choreographed, the music allows for a degree of freedom that both provides room for personal expression and demands a higher sense of aesthetical responsibility from each performer.

Two years ago her composition 'Inbetween' was named one of the leading forces in new notational concepts in a book named Notation21 by Ms. Theresa Sauer, her work was presented in an ongoing exhibition and concerts in the US and Europe. Her work is often described both by listeners and performers as passionate inventive, on the edge, would make you feel/think/experience & not forget.

Rosenbaum objects to being categorized as a composer. She believes music must become a new form of expression by triggering and reflecting movement and visual elements. In the last five years she has been improvising on cello together with Ink Boat - a San Francisco based theater and movement company, as well as performing with jazz musicians all over the world among them Aaron Dugan, Shahzad Ismaily, Ram Gabai and Cassie Terman.

Reflex Ensemble website
Notations 21 website

ANTON LUKOSZEVIEZE - cello

Cellist Anton Lukoszevieze is one of the most diverse performers of his generation and is notable for his performances of avant-garde, experimental and improvised music. Anton has given many performances at numerous international festivals throughout Europe and the USA. He is unique in the UK through his use of the curved bow (BACH-Bogen), which he is using to develop new repertoire for the cello. From 2005-7 he was New Music Fellow at King’s College, Cambridge and Kettle’s Yard Gallery. Anton is the subject of several films by the renowned artist-filmmaker Jayne Parker. He is also a member of Zeitkratzer and in 2008 made his contemporary dance debut with the Vincent Dance Company in Broken Chords, Dusseldorf.

Anton has premiered and commissioned new works for cello by a multitude of contemporary composers, including Christopher Fox, Gerhard Staebler, Amnon Wolman, Kunsu Shim, Laurence Crane, Richard Ayres, Sven Lyder Karhs, Jennifer Walshe, Claudia Molitor, Rytis Mazulis, Arturas Bumsteinas, Juste Janulyte, James Saunders, John Lely, Tim Parkinson, Alwynne Pritchard, Peter Eotvos, Bryn Harrison and Mathew Adkins.

Anton's work has been shown at the Sammlung Essl-Wien, Podewil-Berlin, Maerzmuzik-Berlin, EarPort-Duisburg, Kunsthaus-Dortmund, Bruckenmusik-Cologne, Kettle's Yard Gallery-Cambridge, Neon Gallery Brostrup-Sweden, Contemporary Art Centre-Vilnius, Slade School of Fine Art-London, Chelsea College of Art & Design-London, Donaufestival-Krems, Sound Waves Festival-Brighton and broadcast on BBC Radio Three's 'Hear and Now'. He has recently completed a new mixed-media commission for Apartment House from the Schumann-Fest, Dusseldorf and the Goethe Institute, premiered on June 10th, 2010. The UK premiere is on 23rd November, 2010 at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival

JOHNNY CHANG - violin

"violinist and composer based in Berlin, Germany, Chang studied at California Institute of the Arts (Los Angeles) with Michael Pisaro and James Tenney. His articulated performances have been featured in festivals and experimental music series around the world, from the Wandelweiser Summer Residency Series in Düsseldorf, Klang im Turm (Munich), Dog Star Orchestra (Los Angeles), LISTEN/SPACE (Brooklyn, New York) to experimental music series/venues in Berlin such as Miss Hecker, Exploratorium, Ausland, MaerzMusik and Labor Sonor.

Mr Chang's own music explore the relationship of noise, silence, tone and of connections between improvisation, composition, performance and listening."

Johnny Chang website

YEDO GIBSON - Saxophones

Yedo Gibson was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1981. At the age of 11 he started to play the tenor saxophone and on his 15ths was giving classes at the AquiJazz conservatoire in Sao Paulo and playing all over Brazil with various musicians such as Mario Margarido,"Panda" Gianfratti, Ricardo Zoio and others. In 1999 he joined the Armazen Abapuru, group of traditional Brazilian music in a contemporary context where he was in charge of the development of the improvisation aspect in the group. They recorded 2 albums with musicians of Hermeto Pascoal group (Nene, Carlos Malta and Jovino Santos Neto). Armazen has been traveling all over Brazil giving workshops and Concerts in the Vila Lobos Caravana Musical Project.

Parallel with this he was starting his own work with the drummer Panda Gianfratti, with had recorded 5 albums including with a sextet called Abaetetuba directed by Yedo.

In the beggining of 2004 he moved to London where was working with Veryan Weston, Sakoto Fukuda, Hanna Marshal and Nana Tisiboe, started the Quintet of Uncertainty, a group that performed at the BBC, The Vortex Jazz Club and other places in London. Also, Yedo joined the London Improvisers Orchestra together with improvisers from London like Evan Parker, Steve Beresford, Lol Coxhill, Marcio Mattos and others. In London Yedo started to play in the Free Samba Trio with Steve Noble and Dominic Lash. The main goal of the group was searching for the free context inside of traditional Brazilian and African music. After 2 years he moved to Amsterdam but at the same time started his quartet called “Caetitu” that later recorded a Cd to EMANEM with Marcio Mattos, Veryan Weston and Martin Blume.

In The Netherlands he founded The Royal Improvisers Orchestra (RIO) a group of 20 young musicians from all kind of backgrounds playing improvised music conducted by him and other musicians from the orchestra.

Also in Amsterdam he started a trio with Oscar Jan Hoogland and Gerri Jager “EKE” with is as he calls his Punk Improv project where Oscar uses his Electric Clavivhord and Yedo his Baritone Sax together with Gerri's Rock drums. As freelancer in Amsterdam he has been working with musicians like Han Bennink, Michael Vatcher, Cor Fuhler, Luc Ex and other free improvisers.

Yedo Gibson website