Kaja Draksler

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Kaja Draksler at the Moers Festival 2016

Kaja Draksler (born February 6, 1987 in Kranj ) is a Slovenian pianist and composer who moves "in the border area and in the intersection of jazz , freely improvised music , classical modern and new music "; as far as traces of the folk music of the Balkans and Slovenia shine through, they function “in the sense of an imaginary folklore ”.

Live and act

Draksler started playing the piano at the age of 4 and was educated at the University of Ljubljana until 2005 . Then she completed jazz studies at the Conservatory in Groningen (she wrote her thesis on Cecil Taylor ), and then studied composition with Richard Ayres at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam until 2013 . She used a stay in New York to take lessons from Jason Moran and Vijay Iyer .

In 2005 Draksler co-founded the Acropolis Quintet in Groningen. She also founded the BadBooshBand . In 2007 she was a member of the European Movement Jazz Orchestra , for which she also composed (CD Live in Coimbra 2007). In 2007 she wrote the Orpheus and Eurydice Concerto for accordion and orchestra, which Janez Dovč and the Slovenian Philharmonic premiered and recorded. She also composed for the Metropole Orkest and the Italian Unabile Orchestra .

Draksler's performance at the Ljubljana Jazz Festival was released on CD in 2013. Her solo concert in 2015 at the INNtöne Jazz Festival in Diersbach was recorded for radio; In 2016 she performed with Susana Santos Silva at the Moers Festival. At the JazzFest Berlin 2017 she convinced in a trio with Petter Eldh and Christian Lillinger .

Prizes and awards

Draksler won the Dutch Deloitte Jazz Award in 2009 .

Discographic notes

  • Kaja Draksler Acropolis Quartet feat. Sanem Kalfa Türkü (Goga / CDBaby 2010)
  • The Life of Many Others ( Clean Feed Records 2013)
  • Kaja Draksler & Susana Santos Silva This Love (Clean Feed Records 2016)
  • Kaja Draksler, Petter Eldh, Christian Lillinger Punkt.from.Plastik ( Intakt , 2018)
  • Kaja Draksler & Terrie Ex : The Swim (Terp 2020)

Web links

Commons : Kaja Draksler  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c biography
  2. ↑ a b c Kaja Draksler: Piano Solo (DLF)
  3. ↑ Program May 14, 2016 ( Memento from May 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Michael Rüsenberg concert review ( memento from November 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) jazzcity.de
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ Kaja Draksler, Petter Eldh, Christian Lillinger Punkt.VRT.Plastik. Michael Rüsenberg's jazzcity.de, November 14, 2018, accessed on August 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Draksler, Kaja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Kranj