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Anja Lechner

Anja Lechner bridges the gap between traditional and contemporary music, arranged and improvised performances, playing as soloist, as chamber musician, and as creative force in diverse projects between the genres.

Concert tours and festival appearances have taken her through Europe, Latin America, the US and many other countries. She has premiered countless works that were also dedicated to her, by composers including Arvo Pärt, Valentin Silvestrov, Tigran Mansurian, Tõnu Kõrvits and Dino Saluzzi.

She has made numerous recordings for ECM, alongside the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra under the conductor Tõnu Kaljuste, with the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, the Rosamunde quartet, the Argentine bandoneon master Dino Saluzzi, guitarist Pablo Márquez, the Tarkovsky Quartet and with François Couturier, among many others.

Be Quiet

By Nils Petter Molvaer

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Bangkok; Rome; Düsseldorf; London-Finsbury Park; Copenhagen; London-Hackney; Amsterdam; Berlin-orbit 4; München.

Enzo Favata, Ritornare ad Atlantico

by Neri Pollastri
September 14, 2026

Nell'ormai lungo e articolato percorso artistico di Enzo Favata, accanto all'esplorazione e reinterpretazione della tradizione della sua terra d'origine, la Sardegna, spicca la formazione che per oltre un decina d'anni, a cavallo del cambio di millennio, ha suonato sui palchi di mezzo mondo: Atlantico. Proprio con quella formazione, che dopo una lunga pausa ha ripreso a ...

U.T. Gandhi: Farewell Dance

by Neri Pollastri
September 7, 2026

Per chi conosceva il batterista, percussionista, musicista elettronico e compositore U.T. Gandhi, ascoltare questo suo disco, uscito lo scorso anno, scatena sensazioni forti e contrastanti: bello, singolare e molto personale, questo primo lavoro in solo della sua più che quarantennale carriera, dopo la sua scomparsa nel sonno il 10 agosto scorso appare adesso, per molte ragioni, ...

Nils Petter Molvaer: Be Quiet

by Neil Duggan
July 7, 2026

For over three decades, Norwegian trumpeter and composer Nils Petter Molvaer has stood as one of the most influential figures in European jazz. On Be Quiet, he continues to push the boundaries of his already remarkable body of work, collaborating with a different artist in a different location on each of the nine tracks

The Rite Festival 2026 — Third and Final Day

by Artur Moral
June 18, 2026

The Rite FestivalLaboratori D'Arts ContemplativesLlinars del VallèsBarcelonaMay 31, 2026 There are small miracles that happen daily and discreetly. They are of a prosaic and absolutely earthly nature, with no divine or supernatural intervention of any kind, and the vast majority of them tend to go completely unnoticed by the eyes ...

After the Last Sky

By Anouar Brahem

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Remembering Hind; After the Last Sky; Endless Wandering; The Eternal Olive Tree; Awake; In the Shade of Your Eyes; Dancing Under the Meteorites; The Sweet Oranges of Jaffa; Never Forget; Edward Said's Reverie; Vague.

Rain Sultanov: Two From The Baku Jazz Festival Vaults

by Ian Patterson
December 18, 2025

Since the 1990s Azerbaijani saxophonist Rain Sultanov has forged an increasingly high-profile international career, collaborating with musicians of the caliber of Bobo Stenson, Enzo Favata, James Cammack, Tord Gustavsen, Simin Tander, Arild Anderson and Anja Lechner, to name but a handful. His own albums, such asVoice of Karabakh (Ozella, 2015), which features the outstanding ...

JazzMI 2025 – X Edizione

by Paolo Peviani
November 12, 2025

JazzMI 2025--X Edizione Varie sedi Milano 23 ottobre-9 novembre 2025 Concerti, presentazioni di libri, film... Oltre duecento eventi distribuiti lungo diciotto giorni! Il festival JazzMI compie dieci anni e lo fa con una forza ed un'energia invidiabili. Impossibile, anche per il milanese più distratto, non venire a conoscenza dell'esistenza del festival, ...

After The Last Sky

October 13, 2025

Album: After the Last Sky
By Anouar Brahem
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 05:42