Improtest presents : ROBERT DICK-NIELS PRAESTHOLM-CHRISTIAN WINDFELD 8.11. 2024 @ 21.00 ECCM,Pühavaimu 9,Tallinn
Robert Dick Scandinavian Trio featuring Niels Præstholm and Christian Windfeld
This trio is the meeting between one of this worlds most prolific flute players Robert Dick and two of Denmarks best known players in the field of improvised music. This trio features a unique design of sounds and rhythm, creating highly interesting musical worlds.
World renowned as the leader in contemporary music for flute, Robert Dick embodies the ideal of the Renaissance artist. With equally deep roots in classical music old and new and in free improvisation and new jazz, he has established himself as an artist who has not only mastered, but redefined the instrument. Robert’s music carries this vision of continuous transformation into his approach to aesthetics and style. He draws from the jazz tradition, world musics (especially Indian and African), electric and electronic music and natural sounds. Hallmarks of his work are clarity of structure and vivid timbre.
Bassist Niels Præstholm is a veteran in Danish and international jazz and improvised music. Graduate from the Rhytmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen in 1990. Præstholm has received multiple honors, both as a composer and a leader of his own ensembles and as a sideman for numerous artists.
As a improviser and composer Præstholm has a reputation as a forerunner in Scandinavian jazz with his ensembles Embla and Gyroscope String Trio.
.Præstholm has toured internationally and recorded with artists like Michael Gregory Jackson, Django Bates, Kresten Osgood, Mart Soo, John Tchicai, Butch Lacy, and many, many more. Read more on www.nielspraestholm.dkChristian Windfeld is a Danish Improviser, Composer, Percussionist and educated soloist from The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark.
Since the age of 19 he has build an international career touring all over Europe, North America and Australia and lived in Stockholm, New York and Berlin.Windfeld has a minimalist but highly expressive approach to the percussive instruments often reducing his set-up to focus on just one instrument e.g. the snare drum to explore its full potential aiming to transcend the general perception of its capabilities.
www.christianwindfeld.com