Winterjazz 2026 is just around the corner, and we are once again thrilled to announce a strong program with 6 outstanding acts! 3 days of free improv and experimental jazz at Sydhavnen, Aarhus.
PROGRAM:
26TH OF FEBRUARY
20:00 North Project
21:00 Stackenäs/Gammelgaard
22:00 Joint set
27TH OF FEBRUARY
20:00 Johannes Berg & Jeppe Hjøllund
21:00 Mark Solborg TUNGEMÅL
22:00 Joint set
28TH OF FEBRUARY
20:00 Tanja Schlander
21:00 Hyper Elastic Jinx
22:00 Joint set
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
North Project
North Project is a collaboration between cellist and vocalist Linnea Hildén, trumpeteer Øyvind Solheim, percussionist and vocalist Mette Marie Ørnstrup and visual artist and writer Jacinta Madsen.
With great curiosity, the concert meets the present moment and sets perception free — like a balloon, the world expands and bursts its boundaries, wildly beautiful, resounding and quiet.
About the artists:
Jacinta Madsen (DK) is a practicing visual artist and storyteller with a studio in Sydhavnen, Aarhus. She works with visual improvisation and is inspired by exploring the borderlands between different genres and forms of expression.
Vocalist and percussionist Mette Marie (DK) has explored many musical borderlands, both as an improviser, performer, and global musician. She has traveled the world with her music and, among other things, lived in Istanbul for one and a half years, where she studied classical Ottoman music and vocal performance at the conservatory.
With one foot in free improvisation and another in world music, Mette Marie presents a wide range of musical landscapes and structures.
Linnea Hildén is a Finnish composer, cellist-vocalist, and producer who thrives in the borderlands between genres and expressions. With a broad musical background rooted in jazz, classical music, improvisation, and experimental electronic music, their work often moves at the intersection of the acoustic and the electronic, driven by an ambition to find something new, unexpected, and honest. Educated at the Sibelius Academy, the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, they have built a wide-ranging skill set and actively collaborate within the Nordic professional music scenes.
Øyvind Solheim is a trumpet player and composer from Norway, currently living and working in Stockholm as a freelance musician. He incorporates live electronics in several of his current projects, which for the most part is in the world of contemporary improvised music and jazz, but also takes much inspiration from other spheres of music such as classical and folk music. With an education half and half from the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm he has had the privilege of playing with and being influenced by a wide array of styles and sounds, which he synthesizes into his own musical voice.
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Stackenäs/Gammelgaard
Since finishing his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, David Stackenäs (b. 1974) has grown to become one of the mainstays of improvised and creative music in Sweden. Over the years he has developed a unique way of playing guitar – both prepared with different materials as well as conventional technique and a growing armada of pedals. With a wide range of sounds and techniques he creates music with great imagination and poetry. As a soloist he mainly focuses on acoustic guitars, using a lot of the organic sound-possibilities and timbres the instrument has to offer.
Johannes Gammelgaard (b. 1992) is a Danish saxophone player and composer living in Stockholm. The last several years, he has been active on the jazz and improv scene in Scandinavia, having toured and released music with his own bands and as a sideman. His musical output draws inspiration from the folk songs and hymns of his childhood as well as the American jazz tradition and the current Swedish scene of creative music. The recent years, he has been diving deeper into the possibilities of the saxophone in an improvised musical context, exploring extended techniques as well as preparations.
David and Johannes met in Stockholm working together in the concert organisation FRIM. In their duo collaboration, they jump head first into an expressive interplay, thereby creating an at times energetic, at times contemplative flow of sounds where the border between their respective instruments is blurred.
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Johannes Berg & Jeppe Hjøllund
Jeppe and Johannes have been kindred spirits and playmates for over 10 years and have played in each other's bands, as well as a myriad of other large and small ensembles. Together they appear on 6 different releases.
As a duo, they will challenge and surprise each other and the audience in an interplay that is raw, intimate, present and freely improvised.
Johannes Berg is a versatile and wide-ranging drummer and an active musician on the Nordic jazz and improvisation scene.
As a composer, he is inspired by the Nordic nature and hymn tradition. Johannes Berg's playing is deeply rooted in his focus on sound and timbre. For him, it is essential to play music that is relevant and important.
As a trumpeter and composer, Jeppe Hjøllund has made a name for himself for his original harmonic language and a sensitive intuition for rhythm and form.
His improvisational practice is borne by a curiosity and respect for the traditions of music and a persistent search for the new and unheard.
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Mark Solborg TUNGEMÅL
A union of unique voices.
Beautiful melodies, odd grooves and vast textures formulated with nerve and a certain friction by some of Scandinavia’s most innovative players.
How do we speak musically - alone and with others - in different languages? Solborg seeks to investigate, illustrate and raise awareness of the continuous cross-cultural inter humane debate, towards a more varied and complex perspective of the world. Cherishing diversity and multiple insights. The confluence of knowledge and resources - of individual voices. A conversation that becomes increasingly important if we are to solve the challenges of our society and species.
In this next adventure Solborgs music is handled by a wonderful and starry gathering of some of the finest musicians around - taking their time for qualified conversation. Intense, energetic, poetic and virtuously balanced in dynamics and timbre. An exceptional chamber-musical experience.
Susana Santos Silva · trumpet
Mark Solborg · guitar & electronics
Simon Toldam · piano & keys
Ingar Zach · percussion & vibrating membranes
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Tanja Schlander
Tanja Schlander (trained vocal soloist, The Royal Academy of Music 2023) is a born listener and free improviser with many voices in her body.
She works in the borderland between song, sound art and noise, where body, place and material are intertwined.
The voice is used as material and listening as a method; the moment is detected through friction, resonance, and touch.
The solo piece "Spherical percussion" is based on an astrologically inspired sound system, where a stable structure is opened up for the movement of place, body and time.
The music appears as a vertical stay in sound.
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Hyper Elastic Jinx
A new dynamic quartet built around the musicians Signe Emmeluth (alto saxophone), Nana Pi (tenor saxophone), Keisuke Matsuno (guitar) and Halym Kim (drums). The quartet combines diverse impulses from the music scenes in Berlin, Copenhagen and Oslo.
With multiple musical languages from jazz, rock, experimental and contemporary music they set their own artistic DNA within the musical frame of free improvised music. Music that is dynamic, impulsive, expressive and multidirectional.
Each musician in this quartet contributes with different musical backgrounds and they combine them collectively with interactions of tangling frequencies, overlapping textures, open tonalities, rhythmical structures and complex emotions.
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