ECM Artists and Collaborations at Triskel Arts Centre for Guinness Cork Jazz Festival

Triskel Arts Centre’s longstanding partnership with renowned jazz label ECM has brought world-class musicians to Cork in recent years. This year, audiences can experience four concerts featuring ECM artists and collaborations. Tickets from €28 are on sale now from www.triskelartscentre.ie
 
Tony Sheehan, Artistic Director at Triskel, said, “Each year Triskel Arts Centre celebrates our partnership with ECM Records by presenting a series of concerts as part of the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. We are very grateful to everyone at the festival for allowing us to do this, and this year we are especially pleased to present ‘ECM Artists and Collaborations’, a series of three concerts featuring these superlative artists in solo, duo and trio format. As an extra bonus, we have partnered with Music Network to bring ECM artist Marilyn Mazur to Ireland along with her group, Special 4, who will tour the country to large and small venues.”
 
ECM: Artists & Collaborations takes place on Sunday 27 October with guitarist Zsófia Boros and saxophonist Trygve Seim taking to the stage at 2.30pm, followed by pianist Nitai Herschkovits at 6.30pm and finishing with the Jakob Bro Trio featuring Thomas Morgan and Joey Baron at 8.30pm. 
 
Sheehan continued, “The sublime musical sensibilities of Boros and Seim and the unique interplay of classical and contemporary guitar and saxophone is a thing of true magic and beauty and will be unforgettable in the acoustic and visual surrounds of Triskel Christchurch, while Cork audiences will be familiar with Herschkovits from his performance with the Oded Tzúr Quartet, which was critically acclaimed as a highlight concert of last year’s festival. Jakob Bro on electric guitar, Thomas Morgan on bass and the legendary Joey Baron on drums and percussion will complete our ECM day in spectacular fashion.”
 
Rounding out the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival line-up at Triskel this year are harpist Alina Bzhezhinska, composer Brian Jackson and saxophonist Tony Kofi who will celebrate Alice Coltrane; Japanese trumpeter Takuya Kuroda; and singer Stella Bass. Another ECM artist, master percussionist and musical visionary Marilyn Mazur, will perform on Saturday 26 October at 2:30pm as part of her Music Network national tour.
 
Tickets for the concerts in Triskel are on sale now from www.triskelartscentre.ie.

ECM: Artists & Collaborations
 
Sun 27 Oct at 2.30pm: Zsófia Boros & Trygve Seim
Ticket prices: €30/€28
Website: https://triskelartscentre.ie/events/zsofia-boros-trygve-seim/
Tickets: https://triskelarts.ticketsolve.com/shows/873647091/events
People will know Zsófia Boros & Trygve Seim as outstanding solo performers, but for Manfred Eicher’s 80th Birthday last November in the Philharmonie in Hamburg, they came together to create a special concert, which we are now exclusively bringing to Cork. Their sublime musical sensibilities and the unique interplay of classical and contemporary guitar and saxophone is a thing of true magic and beauty and will be unforgettable in the acoustic and visual surrounds of Triskel Christchurch. Trygve last played the Church with Frode Halti over ten years ago, and Zsófia performed solo and a collaborative concert with Anna Gourari, which happened for the first time in the Church in 2018 as part of our ECM Weekend.
Zsófia Boros – guitar
Trygve Seim – saxophone
 
Sun 27 Oct at 6.30pm: Nitai Herschkovits
Ticket prices: €30/€28
Website: https://triskelartscentre.ie/events/nitai-herschkovits/
Tickets: https://triskelarts.ticketsolve.com/shows/873647092/events
Nitai Herschkovits will be known to Cork Jazz Festival audiences from his appearance as pianist as part of the Oded Tzúr Quartet, which was critically acclaimed as a highlight concert of last year’s festival. Later that year, in November 2023, Nitai issued his first album for ECM Records, Call on the old wise, to international acclaim. This solo concert will bring his music live to the intimate space of Christchurch on the much-loved Steinway C piano.
Nitai Herschkovits – solo piano
 
Sun 27 Oct at 8.30pm: Jakob Bro Trio featuring Thomas Morgan and Joey Baron
Ticket prices: €40/€38
Website: https://triskelartscentre.ie/events/jakob-bro-trio-featuring-thomas-morgan-and-joey-baron/
Tickets: https://triskelarts.ticketsolve.com/shows/873647095/events
In 2016, this superlative trio of Jakob Bro on electric guitar, Thomas Morgan on bass and the legendary Joey Baron on drums & percussion issued one of ECM Records’ finest albums, Streams. Speaking of their collaboration in Downbeat, critic Ken Micallef, who gave the resulting album a 4 and a half(!) of out of 4 stars writes: “Bro refers to his compositions as ‘moods and textures’, and bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Joey Baron freely explore these vistas with endless freedom.”
“As a group, we’ve been working more on ideas based around different time feelings as well as steady pulses,” Bro says.
Those “pulses” are the essence of the trio’s dialogue. Melodies erupt as if already written, many sounding oddly familiar.
Jakob Bro – guitar
Thomas Morgan – bass
Joey Baron – drums
 

The Rest of the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival Line-up at Triskel

• Fri 25 Oct at 6.30pm: Takuya Kuroda

• Fri 25 Oct at 8.30pm: Celebrating Alice Coltrane: Alina Bzhezhinska & HipHarp Collective featuring Brian Jackson

• Sat 26 Oct at 2.30pm: Marilyn Mazur Special 4 – presented by Music Network and Triskel Arts Centre

• Sat 26 Oct at 6.30pm: Stella Bass

About Triskel Arts Centre

Triskel Arts Centre is a vibrant cultural HUB in the heart of Cork City and. The main auditorium Triskel Christchurch is a multidisciplinary space housed in a fully refurbished neoclassical Georgian Church. This state-of-the-art venue, which launched in 2011, is programmed with a rich bill of live music (with a focus on Classical and Jazz concerts), cultural cinema, visual art exhibitions and literary events. Triskel runs a second contemporary art room Triskel Gallery Space. Cork Traveller Women’s Network relocated their Headquarters to Triskel in 2018 and yoga and dance studio The Collective Cork took up residence in May 2019. Paperboys Café and Garden serves brunch and beverages in a cosy 25-seater café on the ground floor of the centre. We are proud to be funded by the Arts Council.