Events

The double evening of the duo Mercier/Zamengo and Duet 2.26 presents works and compositions that invite you into new worlds of illusion and fantasy and open the door to a universe of new meanings and identities.

The light is the memory of the past; the colour is the promise of the future. Just as painters need light to bring their ideas to life, musicians need time to allow the sound to exist. This concert presents four pieces that look at time and our memories from a different angle.

The «Gershwin Piano Quartet» opens the «Interfinity» 2025 festival with unique arrangements that combine classical virtuosity and jazzy improvisation. The programme includes works by Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Trenet, Strauss and Gershwin, which will be reinterpreted through innovative transcriptions and new compositions.

Inspired by the almost 150-year-old sound tradition of silent film music, Stanislas Pili and Miguel Ángel García Martín present a contemporary version of this art, continuing the lineage of the pioneering percussionists who lent the first images a magical sound context.

Every Friday, «duoplus» with Peter Schärli and Sylwia Zytynska invites a guest to a 45-minute concert. This is followed by an aperitif with informal conversation in the Bar du Nord. In March, jazz pianist and composer Hans-Peter Pfammatter will be a guest at the Bar du Nord.

In his performance, Austrian improvisation musician Dieter Kovačič (*1973), better known as dieb13, presents cassette players, vinyls, CDs and hard drives, which he transforms into instruments. A discussion with the artist, moderated by saxophonist Marcus Weiss, rounds off the evening. The event will take place at the Bar du Nord!

«Co-productions»

This time, the «Ein Haus» lectures will focus on residential buildings that are created in cooperation between architects and highly specific clients. The dialogue-based events focus on the development process, about which architects and co-producers report from their respective perspectives. The selected projects address issues of affordability and the careful use of resources in challenging locations.

The evening offers two sonic explorations of the concept of movement. The trio Trio «Stop, Drop, and Roll» explores micro-movements in a jointly composed, transdisciplinary performance. Afterwards, «The Vibrant Machines», a fusion of jazz and classical musicians, will present original compositions inspired by the artist Jean Tinguely.

To celebrate its 30th birthday, the Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain de La Chaux-de-Fonds invites you to an extraordinary immersive evening that mixes music, gastronomy and a wry look at the famous film «La grande bouffe» by Marco Ferreri, in a mischievous collaboration with singer Jeanne Hirzel and composer Astride Schlaefli.

Ensemble Phoenix Basel is honouring the memory of the important Hungarian composer Peter Eötvös, who died unexpectedly in March, by performing three of his ensemble works from his 32-year career. The Hungarian composer and conductor Gregory Vajda, Programme Director of the «Peter Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation» in Budapest since 2018, will conduct the concert.