Filippa Gojo – Stephan Mattner „Nucleus“

In the organizer's words:

The search for the essence, the core of things: both singer Filippa Gojo and saxophonist Stephan Mattner set themselves this task early on in their respective musical development. So it was only a matter of time before the two Cologne-based musicians continued this exploration together.
On the one hand reduced to voice and soprano saxophone, on the other enhanced by the targeted use of effects and computer sounds, the Nucleus duo unites precisely this: reduction to the essential in combination with the abstract, the not quite tangible. The relationships between the levels are also in constant flux: sometimes the elements stand out clearly from one another, separate unmistakably into accompaniment and melody, electronics and acoustics, sometimes they merge together without any audible separation.

Filippa Gojo - vocals, kaoss pad, keys

When her jazz singing studies took her to the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne, she was soon in the thick of the action with German jazz greats and renowned ensembles such as the WDR Bigband, as well as her own quartet.
She gained further inspiration and experience during a semester abroad at the "Conservatorium van Amsterdam" in the winter semester 2010/2011.
After completing her diploma in jazz singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne, Filippa also completed her master's degree in her adopted home. In 2014, she was the first singer to be awarded the Horst and Gretl Will Scholarship from the City of Cologne for jazz and improvised music, and in 2015 she and her "Filippa Gojo Quartet" received both the band prize of the NEW GERMAN JAZZ AWARD and the SOLIST AWARD.
Filippa Gojo has been a professor of jazz and pop singing at the Nuremberg University of Music since 2016.
"This music touched my soul" (Kenny Garrett)
"(...) And only very few singers can do that: entrust the unspeakable to the sound and an extremely differentiated rhythm" (Hans-Jürgen Linke, FAZ)
"Filippa Gojo's strength is that she has retained the intuitive, the original while still moving her voice in a trained, stylistically confident manner." (Anja Buchmann, DLF)

Stephan Mattner - soprano sax, computer, keys

studied classical saxophone and instrumental pedagogy at the Musikhochschule Detmold/Dortmund department and jazz saxophone at the Folkwanghochschule Essen with Prof. Hugo Read and Matthias Nadolny.
During his studies he attended courses such as "Tage für neue Musik Darmstadt", was a member of the LandesJugendJazzOrchester NRW and taught as an assistant lecturer at the Dortmund University of Music.
Concerts with a wide variety of formations and musicians have taken him to almost all clubs and festivals in Germany as well as various European countries and Australia.
He was a semi-finalist in the International Saxophone Competition at the Montreux International Jazz Festival. Radio and television recordings and broadcasts from WDR, MDR, BR, Deutschlandfunk.
In addition to various jury activities, such as at the national Jugend Jazzt competition and the NRW state orchestra competition, he holds a teaching position for saxophone at the University of Siegen.
He has been a guest in the WDR Big Band, the Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra with Nils Wogram, Gwilym Simcock, Mark Wingfield, Joachim Ulrich, Darcy James Argue, Jürgen Friedrich, Florian Ross, Frank Rheinshagen, Marko Lackner, Christoph Eidens, Niels Klein, Nicolas Simion, Sherisse Rogers, Martin Sasse, Sabine Kühlich, Frank Wunsch, Claudius Valk, Christina Fuchs Big Band, Christian Thomé, Caroline Thon's Thoneline Orchestra, Big Band Convention Köln, etc.
Roland Spiegel: Bayerischer Rundfunk in the program Jazztime BR-Klassik from 27.6.2014
Filippa Gojo - Stephan Mattner

Nucleus"... is one of the outstanding soloists on the German jazz scene ..."

Admission: 20/15€