Tour

Šalter Ensemble

Šalter Ensemble operates on the border between free improvisation and composition, focusing on collective processes as a central part of its practice. The project is an international electroacoustic ensemble initiated in 2017 by Jonas Kocher in collaboration with Zavod Sploh Ljubljana and Izlog Festival Zagreb, and has since performed at numerous venues and festivals in Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Switzerland and Serbia. In 2021, the ensemble released the album Štiri dela.

The ensemble consists of outstanding personalities from the Swiss music scene, the Slovenian music scene and, in this year’s edition, exposed representatives of the Styrian music scene. The musicians come from a wide range of backgrounds – from jazz to traditional and folk music to contemporary improvised and electronic music – and are from different generations.

In its current programme, Šalter presents new compositions by Jonas Kocher & Gaudenz Badrutt, Elisabeth Harnik and Tomaž Grom, which were developed especially for Šalter during a residency in Venice.

Gaudenz Badrutt, electronics, Estelle Beiner, violin, Ilia Belorukov, saxophone, Tomaž Grom, double bass, electronics, Elisabeth Harnik, piano, objects, Josef Klammer, augmented percussion, Jonas Kocher, accordion, Samo Kutin, hurdy gurdy, Alfred Lang, trumpet, Irena Z. Tomažin, voice

Artistic direction by Kocher & Badrutt, Harnik, Grom

Dates 2023
May 05, Venezia Mestre (IT), Forte Marghera
May 19, Cerkno (SLO), Jazz Festival
May 25, Biel/Bienne (CH), Le Singe
May 26, Zürich (CH), Videoex Festival

November 23, Ljubljana (SLO), Festival Forum za novo glasbo
November t.b.a., Graz (AT)

Production
Bruit Association, Zavod Sploh (Ljubljana) and Association for New and Improvised Music (Graz)

Support
City of Biel/Bienne, Canton of Bern, Fondation Nicati – De Luze, Pro Helvetia, Fondation SUISA, SIS, Land Steiermark Kultur, Stadt Graz, Bundesministerium Kunst, SKE Fonds, GFÖM/AKM, Alpen-Adria Allianz (AAA), Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, City of Ljubljana, European Union/Culture Moves Europe
Salter Ensemble Poster

Poster by Nayara Siler

More activities

Jonas Kocher, Gaudenz Badrutt (picture by Marcandrea)
Concert / Performance, Talk
June 8th-11th 2023, a festival, a temporary creative hub for encounters and exchanges in Novi Sad
Irena Tomažin (picture by Katarina Juvancic)
Workshop
May 27 2023, “Moved by Voice”, a voice-movement workshop, Biel/Bienne
Baldrian Quartett
Concert / Performance, Tour
February 26-30 2023: Concerts in Biel/Bienne, Zürich and Geneva
Kai Fagaschinski
Workshop
February 25 2023, free improvisation workshop “Improvising as an ecosystem”, Biel/Bienne
All Them Takes (picture by Yann Staffelbach)
Concert / Performance
January 25 2022: Performance in Geneva
Koch, Kocher & Badrutt
Concert / Performance
January 12 & 13 2023: Concerts in London and Brighton

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