Outdoor-Konzert in der Naturschutzstation Hahneberg 🌱

Alexander Dubovoy - piano
Katherine Whatley - koto
Hans Bilger - bass

Alexander Dubovoy, Katherine Whatley, and Hans Bilger present their unique collaboration, one that combines their shared passions for free improvisation, Japanese music, fermentation, sound art, and more. Join for music that combines powerful, spontaneous energy with a deeply-embedded sense of restraint.

Katherine Whatley is a koto musician, composer and poet. She grew up in Tokyo, and now makes her life between the US and Japan. She plays both traditional and experimental koto, both improvised and composed. Her compositions have been performed by the Stanford New Ensemble and the Earplay Ensemble. Her composition and performance was featured in a VR project on Japanese screens at Brown University. She has toured Japan with noise ensembles, and performed in jazz and electroacoustic duos. She has also appeared as a presenter for the BBC and writer in the Japan Times. Currently she’s a PhD student at Stanford studying premodern Japanese literature and music.

Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Alexander Dubovoy is a Berlin-based pianist, singer, and composer. He graduated from Yale University in May 2016, where he wrote an award-winning thesis on the history of jazz in the Soviet Union. Since graduating, he has performed at storied international venues, including the Cornelia Street Cafe in NYC, Donau115 in Berlin, Rakuya Label in Tokyo, etc. His solo album Portraits Drawn Without You has garnered over 8 million streams on Spotify. He currently works for Groupmuse, a cooperative arts organization with a social mission to ensure fair pay for musicians. His work has been featured by the New York Times , NPR , and the Boston Globe.

Hans Bilger is a bassist, singer, songwriter and composer from Brooklyn, NY. After an early diet of country and bluegrass music provided by his family band, the Charismatic Megafauna, he pursued formal training in improvised and classical music. His mentors include the bassists Greg Cohen (Ornette Coleman, Tom Waits), Samuel Suggs (Concert Artists Guild), Paul Kowert (Punch Brothers), J.A. Granelli (Mr. Lucky), Axel Scherka (Staatskapelle Berlin), Kurt Muroki (Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center), and others.

...Special guests may join too!