Carolin Pook will be `Improviser in Residence

Carolin Pook will be `Improviser in Residence

Press release
Moers, January 12th 2016
page 1 of 2
Carolin Pook will be ‘Improviser in Residence’ Moers 2016
/ Hello/Goodbye concert on January 21st 2016
This year we welcome the New York based German musician
Carolin Pook as ‘Improviser in Residence’ for 2016. This composer
and violin player will take over the task from the current Improviser
in Residence Hayden Chisholm in Moers. The handover concert
with both Improvisers will be held on 21 January 2016 at 7.30 pm
at the Moers Festival Hall, free entry.
The ‘Improviser in Residence’ is really a moers festival institution.
Since 2008, each year a different musician is invited to live and
work in Moers for the duration of a year. All year long the
Improviser organises concerts, is in charge of all related projects
and artistic co-productions, works with children, teenagers and
adults in Moers and surroundings.
Festivalbüro/Festival office
Moers Kultur GmbH
Ostring 9
47441 Moers
Chief executive officer
Dirk Hohensträter
Artistic Director
moers festival
Reiner Michalke
Chairwoman of the supervisory board
Carmen Weist
Web
http://www.moers-festival.de
http://www.avant-moers-festival.de
Carolin Pook is a German born composer and violinist from
Brooklyn/New York. She creates and conducts music that is
tailored to the featured performers and part improvised, part written,
while melting those in a seamless way into one composition.The
press has described her compositions as postmodern sound
architecture with an almost magical intensity, her violin playing
ranging from brazen abundance to sensitive sparsity.
Her great grandfather Waldemar von Bausznern was a known post
romantic composer descended from Transylvanian Saxons, and
her father, pianist Rainer Pook, has been Herbert van Karajan’s
assistant at the Deutsche Oper Berlin for many years.
Pook, who grew up in a classical music and operatic environment,
picked up the violin at age 6, the piano and drums at age 12. She
wrote a 2 hour long musical at age 18 while at the same time
intensely studying scores of Arnold Schönberg, Mahler and
Debussy. Between 2000 and 2006, while studying jazz violin and
drums as a double major at the Conservatory in Cologne/Germany,
her close collaborations with mentor and collegue Werner Dickel professor for viola at the conservatory and founding member of the
Ensemble Modern- has strengthened her focus on contemporary
music performance and extended techniques, premiering and
recording numerous chamber music works by composers such as
Thomas Beimel, Dietrich Eichmann or York Höller.
Press Release January 12th 2016 - Carolin Pook will be "Improviser in Residence"
Moers 2016 / Hello/Goodbye Concert on January 21st 2016
Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Kleve HRB 7610 - Moers Kultur GmbH, Kastell 6, 47441 Moers
Geschäftsführer: Dirk Hohensträter - Künstlerischer Leiter moers festival: Reiner Michalke - Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende: Carmen Weist
Press release
Moers, January 12th 2016
page 1 of 2
Since graduating in 2006 and in the same year being awarded
several scholarships to study and live in New York, she has been
commissioned to write for the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie and
Roy Hargrove quintet, for free Jazz saxophonist Peter Brötzmann
and an 8-piece percussion ensemble, and she continues to write a
new program for her 3-year old Brooklyn based chamber workshop
ensemble – the Pookestra – several times a year.
Pook has studied with renowned performers and mentors such as
Zipflo Reinhardt and Michael Gustorff (violin / 2000-2005), Mark
Feldman (violin / 2006-2008), and Keith Copeland (drums / 20022006).
Carolin Pook is a sought after recording artist and arranger and has
appeared on over 40 recordings for artists such as Kenny Garrett,
Die Fantastischen Vier and Mike Doughty, to name a few.
In November 2014, Carolin Pook has been artist in residence at
Peter Kowald Gesellschaft e.V./O.R.T. in Wuppertal, while giving a
Pookestra workshop at the Cologne conservatory and composing a
new work for choir as well as solo violin and dance.
Festivalbüro/Festival office
Moers Kultur GmbH
Ostring 9
47441 Moers
Chief executive officer
Dirk Hohensträter
Artistic Director
moers festival
Reiner Michalke
Chairwoman of the supervisory board
Carmen Weist
Web
http://www.moers-festival.de
http://www.avant-moers-festival.de
"We are very happy that Carolin Pook accepted our invitation to
come to Moers. It also goes to show how good moers festival’s
reputation is internationally when a busy musician such as Carolin
Pook takes us up on our offer to come to the Lower Rhine area.",
stated the festival’s Artistic Director Reiner Michalke.
Previous ‘Improvisers in Residence’ have been Angelika Niescier
(2008), Simon Rummel (2009), Sanne van Hek (2010), Achim Tang
(2011), Ingrid Laubrock (2012), Michael Schiefel (2013), Julia
Hülsmann (2014) and Hayden Chisholm (2015).
We would like to thank Hayden Chisholm for giving us such great
year in Moers. We would also like to thank the Kunststiftung NRW
(Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia) for making the
institution of an ‘Improviser in Residence’ possible in the first place.
High resolution photos of Carolin Pook are available for download
in the MEDIA section on our website.
We hope to see you at the handover concert on 21st January 2016!
For further information about the concert visit www.avant-moersfestival.de.
Winter greetings from the festival office!
Press Release January 12th 2016 - Carolin Pook will be "Improviser in Residence"
Moers 2016 / Hello/Goodbye Concert on January 21st 2016
Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Kleve HRB 7610 - Moers Kultur GmbH, Kastell 6, 47441 Moers
Geschäftsführer: Dirk Hohensträter - Künstlerischer Leiter moers festival: Reiner Michalke - Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende: Carmen Weist