Live!Jazz | Clara Haberkamp Trio

In the organizer's words:

Clara Haberkamp Trio

Over the last few years, Clara Haberkamp has acquired an extraordinarily distinctive signature as a composer. Expressiveness, depth of soul and the unique ability to translate productive doubt into sensual sound are part of her trademark core, which she approaches from a different perspective on each of her albums.

"Clara Haberkamp creates her very own sound. Recognizable, her playing is both serious and light-hearted, thoughtful and free, profound and light. With Clara Haberkamp, we are honoring a musician who, with passion, meticulousness and a great desire to invent herself, has rightly conquered a prominent place in the German jazz scene," says the jury statement for the Westfalen Jazz Prize 2025, which Haberkamp was recently awarded at the Münster International Jazz Festival.

Clara released her latest trio album PLATEAUX in May 2024. It is the first release on JAZZart, the new label from TYXart, which has previously focused exclusively on classical music and has received several awards for its work. The album also made it onto the longlist for the German Record Critics' Award at the beginning of July 2024.

Her two co-conspirators are very subtle, refined musicians: bassist Oliver Potratz is one of the most sought-after exponents of his instrument in Germany. Jarle Vespestad can look back on extensive experience, including several years with Farmers Market and in Tord Gustavsen's trio. Each of them has played on over a hundred albums. Nevertheless, it is the enormously accomplished pianist who shows the directions that give the music its shapes and her colleagues their rhythmic and harmonic challenges.

"This is a hugely impressive recording from German pianist Clara Haberkamp, and also marks a big step forward from her last album, Reframing the Moon released in 2021. Not that there was anything wrong with a set that contained much fine music, it is just that Plateaux finds Haberkamp that little bit older and with a clearer indication of where she
wants to take her music."

Nick Lea, Jazzviews, Jun 20, 2024 At the end of April 2025 she gets a carte blanche at the Festival da Jazz in St. Moritz!
In June 2025, Clara Haberkamp goes back into the studio for her next solo album. There is no title yet. However, it is already certain that she will be recording again on the TYXart label, which is already responsible for the trio album PLATEAUX.

Price information:

20 EUR + advance booking fee. Pupils/students: 10 EUR + booking fee