Julia Hülsmann & Hildegunn Øiseth
Organizer: FESTIVAL DOLOMITES
The exquisite quartet led by pianist Julia Hülsmann opens the jazz weekend in Toblach with an exciting set. In a review of one of their latest albums, The Next Door, Sebastian Scotney of The Arts Desk praised the quartet’s perfect chemistry and noted: “You can feel how the band has evolved and is now finding all kinds of ways to create a convincing flow and a coherent narrative.”
The Guardian called the quartet’s debut “an outstanding album” due to its “unobtrusive reinvention of the familiar and cool virtuosity,” and described it as “clever, thoughtful, curious contemporary jazz music.”
The Norwegian jazz trumpeter Hildegunn Øiseth enjoys conducting musical research on her own terms. In the 1990s, after completing her music studies, she played as a trumpeter with the Bohuslän Big Band in Sweden, before moving to South Africa for two years. There, she immersed herself in township jazz and the traditional music of the Cape Town area, and began exploring the music of the Sámi people, the indigenous population of northern Scandinavia. During this exploration, she discovered remarkable similarities between Sámi music and traditional South African music.
On a journey through Pakistan, Øiseth looked for connections between ragas and the scales typical of Norwegian folk music. At a Sufi ceremony, she found what she was looking for: a surprising link between this South Asian country and her northern European homeland — the goat horn, which is played in Sufi rituals in Pakistan and used in Norway by shepherds as a signaling instrument.
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Director: Julia Hülsmann, piano
Musician: Julia Hülsmann Quartett & Hildegunn Øiseth Quartett
Works by: JAZZ JAZZ JAZZ
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