"reeds & pipes" - Concert for saxophone and organ in Waidmannslust

In contrast, there is the organ, firmly rooted in the room and in its sacred tradition. This creates creative tensions between here and there, old and new, interpreted and improvised, blown in a bluesy manner and swung with a tremulant.

“Reeds” are the reeds on the mouthpiece of the saxophone, where the vibrations arise, and “pipes” are of course the pipes of the organ.

Perhaps a historic organ in the church in his hometown gave Clemens Hoffmann the decisive impulse to become a musician. The special instrument sharpened his sense of sound and tone. He grew up playing classical music on the piano and violin. As a teenager he discovered his love for the saxophone, finding it an appropriate way to express his musical ideas and a niche for artistic expression in the GDR of the 1980s.

He began his professional career in various, sometimes very experimental, ensembles in the jazz and theater scene of his hometown of Halle. When the Wall fell, he went to Berlin and studied jazz at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music. After a classical childhood, a wild, expressive eighties and numerous experiences in chamber music ensembles such as the Berlin Saxophone Quartet, the Ensemble Saxophonquadrat, the Lautten Compagney and with various organists, he now moves between interpretation and improvisation, early music, modern music and jazz.

Clemens Hoffmann works freelance in Berlin and is a saxophone teacher.

Christina Hanke-Bleidorn studied piano, chamber music and song playing at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. She trained as an organist under Dr. Johanna Schell and Dr. Christoph Albrecht, and studied choir conducting at the Berlin Church Music School.

Since then, she has been a lecturer in accompaniment in the singing department of the Academy of Music and has been a lecturer in piano at the University of the Arts since 2004.

Christina Hanke-Bleidorn accompanies many well-known singers at recitals at home and abroad. They have taken concert tours to Italy, Malta, Hungary, Poland and Cuba.

In addition to her work as a pianist and organist in several ensembles with different line-ups and styles, she has performed as a soloist and continuo player in numerous concerts, radio recordings and CD productions. In Berlin she leads various choirs and works as a répétiteur for the Studiochor Berlin.

Free entry - donations welcome

An event organized by the Friends of the Queen Luise Church