Improvisational Concert with Cao Thanh Lan and Gregor Siedl

Fri 28 Feb 2014, 8 pm
Concert Hall – Hanoi College of Art
7 Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi

From Domdom:

DomDom has the honour of inviting you to the concert Say Hello to Spring 2014! Duo Cao Thanh Lan (piano, Vietnam) and Gregor Siedl (saxophone, Austria) will bring us to a strange experience of the combination between academic music and experimental Jazz.

In this improvisational concert, we can meet DomDom students on stage once again. Let’s see what is the difference in their performance after the 3-day workshop with the talented duo.

Cao Thanh Lan – Piano

Lan is a versatile pianist encompassing a wide range of stylistic influences, with repertoire from classical to contemporary music and interdisciplinary works. After earning her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree of classical music with Distinction at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, she went on studying Master of New Piano Music at the Musikhochschule Koeln (Cologne Conservatory) with the world leading pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. She has performed in Austria, Germany, Belgium, Romania, the Netherlands as soloist and in chamber music ensembles during festivals namely Klangspuren, Manifest@Ircam, Impuls, Kamermuziek Festival Schiermonnikoog.

After several years playing and experimenting in the Free Improvisation Ensemble under the guidance of Kris Defoort (Brussels) and under Paulo Alvares (Cologne), she engages more and more in conceptual and free Improvisation, notably with project Osmosis at Strom Festival Cologne 2013. She is a founding member of ensemble Moment! and ensemble Parallel Asteroid.

Gregor Siedl – Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute

Gregor Siedl, currently based in Cologne, Germany, is a saxophonist with a background in jazz and improvised music. He studied classical and jazz music in his hometown Vienna, Austria and later on moved to Brussels, Belgium where he graduated with a Masters Degree in jazz music in the class of John Ruocco.

His immersion in the music scenes of several different European countries helped him absorb different viewpoints and approaches to improvised music and ensemble playing. (European Saxophone Ensemble, Dubtapes, Chroniques de l’Inutile, Parallel Asteroid, Osmosis, Notdurft, Unrevealed Society).

He is actively involved in diverse artistic projects. Some in context of performance-art, with dancers, actors as well as visual artists, others in ensembles rooted in the tradition of jazz and large ensembles crossing the boundaries between classical and improvised music.
He has developed a rather eclectic musical language which draws its influences from jazz, avant-garde, eclectronic- and contemporary music and provides him with the versatility to contribute to very different musical situations. In his playing he strives for expression, alertness and interaction with his musical partners.

Free entrance.