Gabriele Mitelli’s trio has a clear mission: to break away from clichés and explore less conventional paths. The music is a journey to the heart of improvisation, where jazz becomes a gamble once again—a daring practice in which taking risks is fundamental to progress. Mitelli’s bandmates are two great English musicians for whom noise and rebellion are a way of life: bassist John Edwards and drummer Mark Sanders. The three are tireless experimenters who have played in various ensembles with names such as Evan Parker, Roscoe Mitchell, Sunny Murray, Peter Brötzmann, Louis Moholo-Moholo, and Wadada Leo Smith: collaborations that speak of courage and freedom, integrity and commitment. For this concert, the trio invites Rodrigo Amado for what will be an absolute premiere. It will be the first time Amado plays with any of these musicians. Get ready: there’s a whole world to discover here.

Gabriel Valtchev, percussionist, drummer and improviser, develops his artistic identity in the fields of contemporary music, traditional Balkan music and improvised/alternative music. His approach detaches him from aesthetic restrictions to immerse himself in the accidental, the sensory and confusion, whether physical or emotional.

Serbian born, New York City based violinist Marija Kovačević works in classical, experimental and improvised music. Her project “Music for Broken Violins” is an exploration of sonic textures with broken violins, bows and their fragments. Marija has developed an idiosyncratic vocabulary of dragging strings, playing cracks, bowing broken bodies, wrapping loose hair, and creaking pegs. In performance, there is a minimalist, ritualistic structure to her unembellished studies, as each instrument is approached in procession, with silence in between each visceral deviance from the accepted technical norms.

Situated in the intersections of experimental music, free improvisation and performance art, the work of Paula Sánchez work focuses on the composition/decomposition of a mutable sound space. With a markedly interdisciplinary profile, she found her first voice as a performer and composer in the fields of theater and performance art. She stands out for her use of extended techniques and unconventional ways of playing, working with materials like plastic, glass and elements from nature combined with voice and electronics. Hers is the pure presence of an embodied sound which invents its relationships as it makes its way into nothingness.