On 7 and 8 June, the festival Jazz te Gast will take place, a biennial music festival which transforms the tiny village of Zuidhorn into the absolute center of European jazz. The iconic trumpeter Avishai Cohen is Jazz te Gast’s Artist in Residence and, together with composer Tijn Wybenga, is curating part of the program, in which 75 top musicians will give 25 concerts spread over two days.

On Sunday, when also the Red Light Jazz festival in Amsterdam takes place, Wybenga will bring a selected group of musicians (including Cohen) to our venue, consisting of Vernon Chatlein, Suzan Veneman, Anton Eger and Joachim Badenhorst, among others. It promises to be an exciting melting pot of new compositions, improvisations and spontaneous musical ideas from a total of 12 top musicians in different line-ups.

Leila Martial voice, Avishai Cohen trumpet, Suzan Veneman trumpet, Marc Alberto saxophone, Joachim Badenhorst clarinet, Tijn Wybenga keys/compositions, Elias Stemeseder piano, Teis Semey guitar, Alessandro Fongaro double bass, Anton Eger drums, Vernon Chatlein percussion, Momi Maiga kora, Aleksander Sever vibraphone

Noordpool Strijkkwartet
Hieke Dam violin, Tessel Hersbach violin, Luca Altdorfer viola, Teodora Nedyalkova cello