Beyond borders. Crossing borders requires courage, creativity and

Beyond borders. Crossing borders requires courage, creativity and
openness for a new form of composition. The five members of the
Beyond Borders Band are unite in the dream to overcome borders.
They break through cultural boundaries and connect the Arabic and
the Western world with the help of their music. Their unique melodies
of Arabic and European tradition are accompanied by rhythms on the
pulse of time. They create a sensually ambitious, literally unheard-of
masterpiece that resolves the borders of Orient and Occident. Every
single musician’s free evolvement offers the possibility of an
unrestricted musical communication and presents to the audience:
music without borders!
Fadhel Boubaker (Tunis) - Oud
Fadhel started to play oud
with his teacher Slaheddin
J`aïbi. From early on he was
fascinated by the number of
possibilities this instrument
offers. He learnt the
repertoire of Malûf and
arabic oriental school of
music and interpreted it
with oud and voice. After
discovering Western music
he started improving his
own
musical
language,
bringing to his instrument
western
music
esthetic
elements and build a
stronger acknoweledgement
about harmony, jazz improvisation and composition. At the University of
Music in Tunis he wrote his final thesis on ‘The intercultural exchange
between jazz and the music of the maqam’. In 2003 he began composing
for international projects and thereby crossing the borders between jazz
and Arabic music. Fadhel is currently giving lectures on ‘Instant Composing’
and ‘Jazz-Fusion’ at the High Institute for Music in Tunis.
Niko Seibold (Basel) - Alt & Sopran Saxophon
At the age of ten Niko began
playing the saxophone. Having
had classical tuition in the
beginning, his interest in jazz,
pop and rock music and
symphonic brass music began
to grow. At the age of 17 he
gave himself to jazz winning
the
national
competition
‘Jugend jazzt’ in the years 2008
and 2010. In 2012 he was a
scholarship student of the Siena
Jazz Foundation. After his
studies at the University of
Music and Performing Arts Mannheim he started doing his master’s degree
in Basel. He is focusing on improvisation and composing.
Jakob Deiml (Hamburg) - Piano
the University for Music in Hamburg.
Jakob
wrote
his
first
compositions for the piano at
the age of eight. He has won
several prizes at musical
contests and at the age of
twelve he performed with the
polish Szczecin Philharmoic
Orchestra. He was a founding
member of the rock combo
‘Maks & the Minors’, for which
he organized CD-productions,
TV- and radioshows and
national as well as international
concerts. He is currently
studying classical composition,
mucial theory and jazz piano at
Jonathan Sell (Mannheim) – Double Bass & E-Bass
Jonathan Sell’s development as a
musician began with the piano and
now includes the electric bass, the
guitar and, most importantly, the
double bass. He plays in a wide
range of styles, from western
classical music to progressive rock,
from jazz to oriental maqam. In
Febuary 2015 he finished his
studies of jazz-double-bass with
Prof. Thomas Stabenow in
Mannheim. His final concert
showed a combination of arabic
oud- and ney-music with jazzversions of King Crimson songs. A central characteristic of his play is the
interpretation of music as the universal language that overcomes cultural,
national and stylistic borders. He is a member of the Orientalische
Musikakademie Mannheim, where he commits himself to cultural exchange
through music. Beside the ‘Beyond Borders Band’ groups like ‚Haz'art Trio‘
(Contemporary World Music), ‚Madd' (Syrian Maqam), ,Gently Disturbed‘
(Progressive Dance Jazz), ,The Swindlers' (Crimson Jazz), ,NeckarGanga'
(Indian Jazz) and the ,Spoken Word Impro Orchestra' are his most
important means of expression.
Dominik Fürstberger (Mannheim) - Schlagzeug
At the age of seven Dominik took
on classical piano classes and
began playing the drums the
following year. After he had
already gathered experience with
various bands at the age of 15, he
then started taking on classical
percussion classes in addition to
the drum set. Since 2010 he has
been Prof. Michael Küttner’s
student at the University of Music
and Performing Arts Mannheim.