Constantin Krahmer Septett - Visions Fugitives

After 15 years in Cologne, pianist and composer Constantin Krahmer moved to Rostock in November 2021. There he has a teaching position for piano at the HMT and has established the international concert series Bron, in which he invites musicians to Rostock for concerts (e.g. Thomas Morgan, Peter Bruun, Zola Mennenöh, Luise Volkmann, Carlos Bica and many more) He is also a very active sideman (Maik Krahl Quartett, Ampair:e, Zuzana Leharova Quartett, etc.) and writes music for his own ensembles: After the album Close Up, released in February 2022, he released his trio debut album Care with Thomas Morgan (b) and Leif Berger (dr) in 2024. The Septet is his current project, with which he is currently on a release tour for the album Visions Fugitives (March 2025, Yew Records). He says about the album:

"So far I've always written for smaller bands, trio, quartet, quintet, but somehow I've been tempted to compose for a medium-sized ensemble for a while. Something that is not yet a "large ensemble" or a smaller big band, but where all the musicians can still have a large say in the music without it becoming confusing. The septet is a very good choice: four wind instruments, for example, can create great colors and textures together, while at the same time the instrumentation is still manageable or "overhearable", you still have an overview and can react spontaneously. And that is very important to me: I want to give my fellow musicians maximum freedom, my compositions should be like a reservoir of musical text, melodies, polyphonic passages, ideas, etc., from which everyone involved can draw and make decisions in the moment. A concert that promises multi-faceted music between composition and improvisation."