This evening brings together four musicians who have developed their own unique approach to improvised music in different scenes and contexts. Together, they will present a new program for the first time, which mediates between composed structures and open spaces for improvisation and repeatedly calls for those moments in which musical decisions are made in the moment. For the audience, this evening offers the opportunity to witness a process that is both focused and daring.
Trumpeter Lorenz Widauer combines an early classical education—he has already performed as a pianist at the Großes Festspielhaus Salzburg and MuTh Vienna—with a later development toward jazz and improvised music. Tours as a bandleader and sideman have taken him throughout Europe; with projects such as Orjazztra and his ensemble Chez Fría, he moves between contemporary composition and improvised formats. He has received the Hubert von Goisern Culture Prize, among others, and was accepted into the Focusyear Band of the Basel Music Academy in 2024/25. Critics describe him as a musician whose works “balance precisely between openness and structure.”

In recent years, Norwegian trombonist Guro Kvåle has increasingly appeared in experimental and improvised contexts—for example, with Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra, the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, and her trio Private Property!. Her playing combines physical presence with a search for expanded sound possibilities, often in interplay between voice, trombone, and percussion. The Norwegian trade press wrote about her: “A musician with such a distinctive voice that it's hard to imagine a scene without her.”
Vienna-based bassist and composer Tobias Vedovelli has been working for many years in a variety of ensembles and across different aesthetic fields. He is co-founder of HAEZZ and Waschsalon Records and has played with the Jazzorchester Vorarlberg, Ralph Mothwurf Orchestra, Yasmo & die Klangkantine, and Dhafer Youssef, among others. Ö1 characterized his work as “rhythmically varied soundscapes in which openness prevails in many directions, from dubstep to free improvisation.” Vedovelli has received several grants and was nominated for the Amadeus Award in 2023.

Drummer and composer Max Plattner's projects explore the connection between improvised music, electronic elements, and contemporary rhythmic concepts. He studied jazz percussion and media composition, has released several recordings with his trio, and the concept album Ploy. In recent years, he has worked on the “Melting Pot” project at the Saalfelden Jazz Festival and was invited to be a musician in residence at the “Hin & Weg” festival. Ö1 described his approach as an “open view that combines rhythmic precision with tonal sensitivity.”

When these four musicians perform together for the first time this evening, the result is an interplay that relies neither on pure form nor pure chance, but on the tension between the two. The music remains in flux without losing its orientation. The audience is treated to an evening that relies not on spectacular effects, but on the quality of the moment, on precise connections, and on the special attention that characterizes improvised music at its best.