Anaïs Drago

In the organizer's words:

Between jazzahead! and Cape Town at the Hafenbahnhof at Jazz Hoch Drei

MINOTAURI - Anaïs Drago - violins, vocals, compositions

Minotauri is the title of the solo concert program by violinist Anaïs Drago, who continues the solo research undertaken with the album Solitudo, published by CAM Jazz in 2021: a solo album that surprises for the plurality of voices, a praise to solitude nourished by beauty.
Minotauri maintains the alternation between violins (acoustic and electric, both electronically manipulated), the search for a completely personal tonal expressiveness through a careful utility of musical material, sometimes essential and minimalist, sometimes rich and colorful in substance and development, entirely fruit of Drago's pen and improvisation.
Anaïs Drago draws immersive soundscapes, taking the listeners to the abysses and to ethereal and imaginative worlds.
Also using vocals and whistle to enrich the palette of sounds and timbers, Anaïs Drago's Minotauri represent our inner loneliness and guide us towards a possible way out from the maze.

"The violinist embodies a vast soundscape without entering the ambit of any specific style, keeping well away from any ostentation. Only the music remains, fresh and mysterious as an enigma."
M. G. Bianchi - Musica Jazz

"Strange and inspiring mix of electronics, improvisation and pop culture. [...] Sign of an open-mindedness that runs through contemporary research."
C. Sessa - Corriere della Sera

Anaïs Drago is an Italian violinist and performer, born in Biella in 1993.
Winner of Top jazz 2022 (referendum organized by Musica Jazz magazine) in the new proposals section, she moves between the sounds of free improvisation, electroacoustic music, jazz, pop.
Awarded with first prize in Seifert Competition 2024, international contest dedicated to jazz string players, her name was included in 2023 and 2024 annual poll by New York-based magazine Downbeat as rising star in violin section.
As a leader, she has performed on some of the most important jazz festivals' stages in Italy and abroad, also cooperating with Italian Institutes of Culture in Asia and Americas.
Since 2021 she has dedicated an important part of her research and concert activity to the solo.

Admission: 6 pm - Start: 7 pm - Advance booking: €13.60 - B.O.: €15

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Supported by: Initiative Musik and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media