performer bios

Birgit Ulher (trumpet)
Born 1961 in Nuremberg, Birgit Ulher studied the visual arts, which greatly influenced her music. Since moving to Hamburg in 1982 she has been involved in free improvisation, co-founding a musicians collective, - dance-projects and solo-performances, played often in occasional / once-only groupings with many of the European improvisers. She has performed in Germany, England, Switzerland, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Sweden and Spain together with Jürgen Morgenstern and Martin Klapper (CD-Momentaufnahmen), the PUT-Trio with Ulrich Phillipp and Roger Turner (CD-Umlaut), Tim Hodgkinson, Marianne Kipp, Claudia Ulla Binder, Dorothea Schürch, Ernst Thoma, Ute Völker, Andrea Neumann, Rhodri Davies, Söres Zsolt, Robyn Schulkowsky, John Edwards, amongst others.

Carol Genetti (voice)
Carol Genetti is an experimental vocalist focused on improvisation and exploration of the human voice. Armed with a dynamic range of extended vocal techniques—from melodic to noise, Genetti has created a non-verbal sound pallette that has a provocative depth and breadth. Genetti has toured throughout the US, Canada, France and Germany and has collaborated with a large number of like minded artists.

Jerome Bryerton (percussion)
Jerome Bryerton has been working as a free improvising percussionist for the past eight years. In this time, he has worked with some of the most respected players in the world. In October he was once again acquainted with Berlin multi-reedist Wolfgang Fuchs and San Francisco bassist Damon Smith; presenting two concerts as well as recording on CD (balance point acoustics). In September he worked with bass saxophonist Tony Bevan; with Bevan, he performed in San Francisco with local improvisers Scott Looney and Damon Smith. Last winter Jerome toured in Paris and Monacco with Chicago improvisers Carol Genetti and Andrea Polli. These performances were aligned with the multi media festival I.S.E.A. as, well as the Monacco dance forum. Jerome´s style strikes a resemblance close to the likes of European percussionists Paul Lovens, Paul Lytton, and Le Quan Ninh. Intent on using multi ethnic percussion as well as western percussion - simultaneously furnishing them with an odd assortment of orchestral metal and Chinese cymbals/gongs. Jerome believes that it is necessary to keep intact many of the European aesthetics revolutionized in the sixties and seventies; but which is also crucial is the synthesis of wit and experience of a modern American improviser. As a side note, Jerome has also worked with the following people: trumpeter Axel Dörner, reed player John Butcher, guitarist Henry Kaiser, reedist Peter van Bergen, reedist Jack Wright, cellist Fred Lonbergholm, trombonist Jeb Bishop, and also bassist Kent Kessler.

Fred Lonberg-Holm
Fred Lonberg-Holm is a top creative music cellist, active in a variety of projects in avant garde jazz, sound experimentation and modern composition. He studied cello with Ardyth Alton and Orlando Cole, and composition with Morton Feldman, Anthony Braxton and Bunita Marcus.