Kevin John Edusei is one of the most exciting conductors of his generation. Like few others, he moves effortlessly between eras and styles from early to modern music. The son of a Ghanaian physicist and a German pastor, influenced not least by Pierre Boulez, has no reservations. With this profile, he also caused a sensation as chief conductor in Bern.
Alex Paxton is also a dazzling cross-border artist in the best sense of the word—as a composer, jazz improviser, and trombonist, the Englishman has already received several awards. At the Basel Sinfonietta they present a program with works by extremely diverse composers.
There is Julius Eastman—as a homosexual black man, he was exposed to massive discrimination throughout his life in the United States. Although John Cage and Morton Feldman valued him, he died forgotten and impoverished in 1990. He was one of the leading representatives of free "minimal music" with improvisational elements, as in "Stay on It" from 1973. Derrick Skye also moves in minimalist terrain, reflecting traditions from the Balkans, Ghana, and northern India in "Prisms, Circles, Leaps" from 2015. Jessie Cox, who grew up in Biel in Switzerland and has roots in the Caribbean, also sees himself as a bridge-builder. In "Schattenspiel" from 2023, he fills sound spaces with diverse rituals. At the same time, they uphold the Creole heritage of the Maloyas at the time of slavery in order to rebel against any kind of racism. In contrast, Missy Mazzoli explores the boundaries between minimalism, cluster-like sound textiles, and cantable lyricism in "Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)" from 2013.
Tickets are CHF CHF 34-76 for adults, CHF 18-39 for students, and free for kids under age 12.

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Stadtcasino Basel
Konzertgasse 1
4051 Basel

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