Photo: © Markus Stockhausen

Markus Stockhausen Group [D]

MARKUS STOCKHAUSEN TRUMPET | JEROEN VAN VLIET PIANO | JÖRG BRINKMANN CELLO/ ELECTRONICS | CHRISTIAN THOMÉ DRUMS

A burden called history. Markus Stockhausen is the son of Karlheinz Stockhausen—a legacy that feels like both an inheritance and a burden. The fact that Stockhausen Jr. never let this deter him, instead forging his own path between jazz, classical trumpet, and contemporary music, makes for one of the most impressive artistic biographies in German jazz. He has worked with Rabih Abou-Khalil and the Arditti Quartet, and composed for the WDR Symphony Orchestra. And yet he has remained a trumpeter. One with a bright, clear, almost vocal tone that fills a hall without ever overwhelming it.

His group is his very own constellation. Jeroen van Vliet plays piano, Jörg Brinkmann cello, Christian Thomé drums. Four instruments and four languages form an open structure that gives each performance a different shape. Add to that the venue: the Kunstraum Norten, a private space that ranks among the region’s most unique concert venues. A Sunday morning, a trumpeter with a biography spanning an entire musical century, and a quartet that defies categorization come together for a musical encounter of a kind rarely found. It is not to be missed.

In cooperation with and supported by the Norten Foundation, for the promotion of the visual arts in the Ruhr region.