Festival project of the 40th Leipziger Jazztage

The award-winning pianist Julia Hülsmann, together with her quartet and singer Theo Bleckmann, presents the new program "The Root" for the first time - with poetry set to music from Shakespeare to Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Julia Hülsmann, described by the ZEIT as a "lyricist of German jazz," selected poems from a wide variety of epochs and countries for this program: Shakespeare's sonnets, which appeared in the first edition in 1609, tell of beauty but also of the abysses of love. The poems of the 19th-century American Emily Dickinson trace the roots of the wind, and the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood finds the limits of today's fast pace. This year's SWR Jazz Prize winner will also perform pieces from Julia Hülsmann's highly acclaimed Kurt Weill program with her ECM band and Grammy nominee and Echo winner Theo Bleckmann.
Julia Hülsmann - piano
Martin Klingeberg - trumpet, flugelhorn
Marc Muellbauer - double bass
Heinrich Köbberling - drums
Theo Bleckmann - vocals
Also on this first major concert evening at the Opera House: the two premieres of Beats Freisen's "The Jungle Book" and Ketil Bjørnstad's "Images/Edvard Munch".
Tickets between 19 and 50 euros since July 1, 2016 at all known VVK points.