Cologne Jazzweek | Henriette Eilertsen Trio

Henriette Eilertsen - Flöte Torstein Slåen - Gitarre Øystein Aarnes Vik - Schlagzeug Konzertbeginn: ca. 21.00 Uhr

(english: see below)

Für dieses Konzert können gesondert Einzeltickets erworben werden Einzelticket LOFT: 22,-€ / 17,-€ hier im Vorverkauf Tickets auch an der Abendkasse erhältlich (nach Verfügbarkeit) Zusätzlich sind Jazzweek-Tagesticket für Mittwoch (9. September '26) erhältlich, diese sind im LOFT ebenfalls gültig: Jazzweek-Tagestickets 9. September: 38,-€ / 29,-€ hier im Vorverkauf

Henriette Eilertsen - Flöte Torstein Slåen - Gitarre Øystein Aarnes Vik - Schlagzeug

Die 1993 geborene Henriette Eilertsen war die erste Flötistin in Norwegen, die an der Norges Musikkhøgskole in Oslo einen Bachelor im Fach Jazzflöte machte. Das mag sich wie eine Randnotiz lesen, aber es zeigt, wie sehr die Querflöte auch heute noch das Dasein eines Orchideeninstrumentes fristet. Bereits mit ihrem Debütalbum „Poems for Flute“ hat Eilertsen die stilistische Vielfalt und ästhetische Einmaligkeit der Querflöte in den Fokus gerückt und ihr Instrument mit fesselnder Improvisationskunst und schillernder Brillanz geblasen.

Nach Köln kommt sie mit ihrem Trio, mit dem sie kürzlich „Moder“ (auf Deutsch: „Mutter“) veröffentlicht hat. Ihre Musik ist kraftvoll und sensibel zugleich, ihr Spiel auf der Querflöte wirkt emblematisch und geheimnisvoll. Sie mag die hohen Lagen ihres Instruments, die gleichermaßen so kristallin und warm sein können. Und Eilertsen liebt die Interaktion mit Schlagzeug und Gitarre, wenn repetitive Patterns, die wie Minimal Music klingen, auf Dauer eine tranceartig-rituelle Stimmung erschaffen.

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Separate single tickets are available for this concert Single ticket LOFT: 22,-€ / 17,-€ here in pre-sale Tickets also available at the box office (depending on availability) Additionally, Jazzweek day tickets for Wednesday (9th of September '26) are available, which are also valid at the LOFT: Jazzweek Day tickets 9th of September: 38,-€ / 29,-€ here in pre-sale

Henriette Eilertsen - flute Torstein Slåen - guitar Øystein Aarnes Vik - drums

Born in 1993, Henriette Eilertsen was the first flutist in Norway to earn a bachelor's degree in jazz flute from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. This may seem like a footnote, but it illustrates just how much the flute continues to be a niche instrument even today. Already with her debut album "Poems for Flute", Eilertsen brought the stylistic diversity and aesthetic uniqueness of the flute into focus, playing her instrument with captivating improvisational artistry and dazzling brilliance.

She is coming to Cologne with her trio, with whom she recently released "Moder" (in English "Mother"). Her music is both powerful and sensitive; her playing on the flute is emblematic and mysterious. She loves the high registers of her instrument, which can be equally crystalline and warm. And Eilertsen loves the interplay with drums and guitar, where repetitive patterns that sound like minimal music eventually create a trance-like, ritualistic atmosphere.

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Venue:

LOFT

The LOFT in Cologne's Ehrenfeld district is exactly what its name suggests: a spacious loft on the top floor of a former perfume factory. Since 1989 it has been home to the city's musical avant-garde as well as a scene hub and a jazz laboratory for students.

Over those decades it has grown into a respected stage for improvised music, contemporary music, and jazz, with a reputation reaching well beyond Germany. Most of the Cologne jazz musicians who have made their mark nationally and internationally in the past thirty years took their first career steps here, among them Nils Wogram, Hayden Chisholm, Angelika Niescier, Frank Gratkowski, Robert Landfermann, Pablo Held, and Sebastian Sternal.

The Cologne Triennale, WDR, and Deutschlandfunk stage concerts and recordings at the LOFT, and the venue has been invited to the Moers Festival five times. Its own label, 2ndFloor, releases selected recordings, and more than 1,000 live and studio productions made in the LOFT studio have appeared on other labels. Supported by the association 2ndFloor e. V. and the collective jungesloft, it presents over 200 events a year.

Top-tier instruments – including a Steinway D grand, one of the finest concert pianos in any German jazz club – a professional recording studio with award-winning engineers, and the room's distinctive atmosphere have drawn many prominent guests, from Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, and Peter Brötzmann to Kurt Rosenwinkel, Marilyn Crispell, and Jim Black. Still, the programming focus remains on supporting Cologne's own musicians.

Since 2009 the LOFT has received the NRW venue programming award every year, an honor that specifically recognizes work with emerging regional artists. In 2016 the British Guardian named it one of the ten best jazz clubs in Europe, and at the German Jazz Prize it was voted "Club/Venue of the Year" in 2021 and again in 2023 — a category decided not by the expert jury but directly by the more than 1,300 members of the German Jazz Union.

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