What times are we living in right now?!
The climate crisis, endless trouble spots, Corona, avarice, stinginess and gas price brakes…
It’ s really difficult to keep a clear head. Therefore it is a gift to be able to process and comment on all this through music.
Caroline Thon about her new compositions:
“After finishing the relatively notated composition Inside Me with the desire to write simply beautiful music, harsher and unusual sounds pushed themselves clearly into the foreground.
 The highly improvisational Outside of Me depicts what is happening around us right now: the breakdown of our present certainties caused by trouble spots, climate change and pandemics.
 Therefore, in my eyes, we need even more an inner voice and safety that gives confidence and a positive outlook… this is the theme of Inside Me“.

Mo. Sept. 19th  at 20.05 h on WDR 3

World premiere of ECHO CHAMBERS for re-listening, performed in St. Maria im Kapitol in Cologne, in a chamber music formation as FUCHSTHONE Chamber ORCHESTRA

he radio broadcast plays besides our concert previously the Wind&Seasons concert of our colleagues from “Prisma”. The concert will be available for re-listening for 30 days in the media library the day after the broadcast.

Preview:
Mon. 12 Dec. at 8.05 p.m. on WDR 3.

On this evening the WDR broadcasts a recording of the 26th Hildener Jazztage – including excerpts of our concert program Reloaded#4.

Review:
Mon. Sept. 10 at 10 p.m. on Radio Station Bremen2

Bremen2 “Sounds in Concert” featured a report on Jazzahead worth listening to – including excerpts from our presentation of “Iceland III” and “The Truth of J.P.S.?”.

Unfortunately, the soundfile of the broadcast is now no longer available for re-listening in the media library.

Peter Clement and Stephan Köhlen review the Hildener Jazztage in the Rheinische Post Online edition on June 19 after our concert:

“The opening with the Fuchsthone Orchestra was already worth the entrance fee. “The nearly two dozen outstanding and award-winning musicians took the audience on a spectacular journey of sound….

On June 24, the Romanesque Night in the Cologne church of St. Maria im Kapitol ewill be a very special concert evening with no less than 4 concerts. Jazz and Romanesque? “Yes absolutely!” says the organizer of the Romanesque Summer 2022 – and we totally agree.
We may present ourselves as “Grande Finale” of this concert week with the new program “ECHO CHAMBERS” – starting at 23pm. For this concert, the organizers of the Romanischer Sommer have commissioned us to compose music. So this concert will once again consist exclusively of new compositions with world premieres, performed as a “chamber orchestra” with a small line-up. But first, there will be three more acts (1 hour each):

• 20:00 pm:  Freiburger Jazzchor  mit with compositions and arrangements by George Harrison, Bobby McFerrin and others
• 21:00 pm: Geiger Sergey Malov with sonatas and partitas by J.S. Bach
• 22:00 pm: Trio Tamala  (Senegal/Belgien) with the program  “Strings & Worlds”
• 23:00 Uhr: FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA with “ECHO CHAMBERS”