23. mai Ny Musikk konsert – Nytorget i Stavanger

29. April Kühlspot Social Club, Berlin

Brother & Sister – Session hosted by Jazzassi 
Uli Gumpert – piano / Maike Hilbig – bass / 
Anna Kaluza – alto sax / Silke Eberhard – alto sax / Frank Gratkowski – alto sax, flute / Raymond Mac Donald – alto sax / 
Gebhard Ullmann – bass clarinet, tenor sax / Matthias Schubert – tenor sax / Nikolaus Neuser – trumpet / guest Didrik Ingvaldsen – trumpet / Martial Frenzel – drums 

30. April: Günter “Baby” Sommer’s Sister and Brotherhood Ensemble in Greifswald, Germany. CANCELLED!!

3. May: Günter “Baby” Sommer’s Sister and Brotherhood – Eberswalde

4. May Kühlspot Social Club, Berlin.

Hugo Costa: sax 
Didrik Ingvaldsen: trumpet 
Ben Lehmann: double bass 
Joe Hertenstein: drums 

27. May: Vestnorsk Jazzensemble – Festspillene i Bergen.

2. June Jazz club Schlot, Berlin – SWING COMPANY BIGBAND

8. & 9. June, SWING COMPANY BIGBAND in Potsdam

10. August Kulturhaus Spandau: Freilichtbühne an der Zitadelle – SWING COMPANY BIGBAND

15. August: Günter “Baby” Sommer’s Sister and Brotherhood Ensemble in Jazzfestival Peitz, Germany.

20. September – Kitchen Orchestra’s 20 years anniversary concert @ Tou Scene, Stavanger

26. – 28. September – Chili Jazz festival, Austria

3. October – Pocket Corner release concert, new CD @ Spor 5, Stavanger, Norway

13. November – Kitchen Orchestra, Spor 5, Stavanger

29. November – Art B’s, Arkivet Jazz club, Stavanger

19. December – Kitchen Orchestra’s Christmas Concert, Folken, Stavanger

11. Januar: Pocket Corner, Arkivet – Stavanger

8. Mars: Årdalstangen Musikklag, Årdal

11. Mars: Orstad Storband – Spor 5, Stavanger

Double Quartet – Berlin January 2025

2024

KITCHEN ORCHESTRA – STAVANGER with Barry Guy 1. November

CONCERTS WITH NOCZ & IVA BITTOVA – AUTUMN 2024

17th September 2024, 19:00
Hogo Fogo – Bánská Bystrica (SK)

18th September 2024, 19:00 Jihlava – DKO Jihlava (CZ)

19th September 2024, 20:00
Nové Mesto nad Váhom – Blue Note (SK)

1st October 2024, 19:00
Benešov – Městské divadlo Na Poště(CZ)

20th October 2024, 19:00
Ostrava – Barrák music club (CZ)

22th October 2024, 19:00 Žamberk – FIDIKO Žamberk (CZ)

CHILLI JAZZ in Austria:

27. 28. & 29. September – Chilli Jazz Congress, Austria

Prague:

29. July Ingvaldsen/Cremaschi/Chalupa/Wróblewski1

1. & 2. August with Prague Improvisation Orchestra

KITCHEN ORCHESTRA & BARRY GUY

  1. NOVEMBER – SPOR 5 – STAVANGER, NORWAY

10. April Vernissage Concert in Gallery Ponava. Reidun Rose Vinda’s exhibition “Excellent set”. Jazzport

11. April. Work Shop Concert with students at Janáček Academy of Music. “Simply an unusual musical experience”. Jazzport

6. April. The Kitchen Orchestra in Stavanger Concert House. https://www.kitchenorchestra.com

NOCZ Quartet & Orstad Big Band play ZAPPA, 10. March – Ogna Scene

Pocket Corner – Tour in Spain – June 2024

5 June: El Plata Club (Madrid)
6 June : Bilabaina Jazz Club (Bilbao)

7 June: La Casa Vieja (Albacete)
8 June: Jimmy Glass Jazz Club (Valencia)
9 June: Vic Bang Jazz Cava (Vic)

Since 2015, Pocket Corner has toured every year in Spain, with the exception of during the pandemic.

Pocket Corner is associated with Vector Sounds, which is a management – booking agency run by Pablo Correo. They provide all booking and marketing in Spain. http://www.vectorsounds.com/

Petru Popa – keyboard, Glenn Brun Henriksen – saxophone, Ståle Birkeland – drums, Didrik Ingvaldsen – trumpet

NOCZ Quartet

10. Mars – Ogna Scenę, Norway

11 – 14. mars – Residency Paris

15. mars concert in Paris

17. & 18. March concerts in Praha, Acropolis

From 11 to 15 March 2024, NOCZ has a residency at the Paris-Czech Cultural Center that ends with a concert on March 15. in the Hall of Janáček.

March 17. & 18. Prague in the Palác Acropolis.

NOCZ Quartet:

Didrik Ingvaldsen – trumpet

Radim Hanousek – saxophones

Marian Friedl – double bass

Valentin Duit – drums

PMPO (Prague Music Performance Orchestra)

Is a Prague-based ensemble with the best of Czech Republic’s contemporary musicians.

I have played in this ensemble since 2021 under the direction of Swiss conductor Roland Dahinden.

In August 2023, the ensemble world premiered Anthony Braxton’s 6 -hour opera “Trillium X” In Prague, and then went to Darmstadt (D) to do a CD recording and concert.

In the period 18. – 24. March I will work with this ensemble for a concert in the Dox Artist Center in Prague.

https://www.pmpif.org/en/projekty

This will be a double concert with the ensemble DITG (Dust in the Groove) which is a contemporary ensemble based in Brno (CZ)

I have played with DITG a number of times before, and will also play with them at this concert.

https://www.dustinthegroove.cz

PMPO/DITG   18. – 23. March rehearsals in Praha.

24. March concert in Praha, Dox.   https://www.dox.cz/en

LABOR der Künste – Austria 29. December