Frode Haltli: accordion
Arditti Quartet >   
Irvine Arditti: violin
Ashot Sarkissjan: violin
Ralf Ehlers: viola
Lucas Fels: violoncello
Trondheim Soloists   
 

Ferenc Snétberger: guitar

Keller Quartett – András Keller, Zsófia Környei: violins; Gábor Homoki: viola; László Fenyö: cello

Gyula Lázár: double bass

Eberhard Weber: bass

Anja Lechner: violoncello, tamtam
Agnès Vesterman: violoncello

Marc Sinan: guitar, Yelena Kuljic: vocals, Lena Thies: viola, Julia Hülsmann: piano, Marc Muellbauer: double-bass, Heinrich Köbberling: drums, percussion

Fasil, based on an idea by guitarist Marc Sinan and author Marc Schiffer, tells of the life of Aisha, the great love and youngest wife of the prophet Mohammed, in the course of an inspired song cycle. The improvisations take as their inspirational starting point fragments of Koran recitations recorded by Marc Sinan in Turkey. Together with Julia Hülsmann’s songs they form an Ottoman suite, a Fasil. Highlights in this transcultural project include exceptional performances by Sinan himself, and by Yelena Kuljić in the role of Aisha. The singer was recently described by the Frankfurter Rundschau as “the most thrilling new voice in the current jazz scene.”

Lorenda Ramou piano

Ensemble Coriolis
Heather Cottrell: violin
Susanna Pietsch: violin
Klaus-Peter Werani: viola
Hanno Simons: violoncello 

Tora Augestad: vocal; Trygve Seim: saxophones; Frode Haltli: accordion; Svante Henryson: violoncello