Klangformator FEAT FABIANA STRIFFLER

In the organizer's words:

For the mountain festival of this year's JAZZFESTIVAL FREIBURG, there will be a new edition of the feature concert series KLANGFORMATOR at E-WERK. Excerpts from her solo program and new interpretations of her music will be heard, together with the Freiburg musicians Nico Hutter (bass clarinet, clarinet), Winfried Holzenkamp (bass) and Konrad Wiemann (percussion).

In her current program, Fabiana presents herself as a musical storyteller. She sings while she plays her violin. In her songs, she lovingly picks apart small but mystical moments of everyday life. These performances create an intimate connection between stage and audience - a direct, heartfelt experience that lingers long after the last note has been played.

Fabiana is a musician (violin, vocals, composition) who moves between jazz and avant-folk. She spent the first years of her life with her family in Italy, later at Lake Constance, and discovered her great interest in art and music at an early age. She moved to Spain as a young adult, returned to Germany in 2009 and studied jazz and classical violin at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music. She was nominated for the German Jazz Award in 2025 and 2022 for her music.

In 2024, she released her fourth album with Paris-based cellist Karsten Hochapfel, La Plume Du Dimanche (Wopela), as well as the single Konferenzverschaltung for synthesizer and strings (Traumton). In 2023 and 2024, she released six further albums in collaboration with other artists, on which she increasingly contributed her voice alongside her violin.

Residencies and scholarships have taken her to New York, Paris, Glasgow and Tallahassee. She received the Elsa Neumann Scholarship for her modern and improvising string quartet. She was sponsored by the Yehudi Menuhin Association for six years. She is considered both a brilliant violinist and a robust fiddler.

Fabiana Striffler is a very talented violinist who plays straight from the heart. Her beautiful sound is a reflection of herself. Fabiana has a unique balance of keen intuition and intellect that allows her to make pure music no matter what creative situation she finds herself in. - New York, Garry Dial, Grammy "live at the Village Vanguard"

Gustav Mahler might have composed such songs if a time machine had catapulted him into the early 21st century: mysteriously radiant, touching and full of unheard-of sounds... - Concerto Magazine

With

Fabiana Striffler - violin
Nico Hutter - bass clarinet, clarinet
Winfried Holzenkamp - bass
Konrad Wiemann - percussion

Price information:

Admission free