Matthew Halpin’s Earwax Control

Matthew Halpin’s Earwax Control is a combination of improvised music with projected visuals. It engages audience members fully both visually and sonically. As the audience watches the projected visuals, they can understand the musical choices and reactions of the musicians. The visuals provide a red tape for the audience to guide them through exciting and dynamic free improvisation. Comprised of mostly classic movie footage and classic cartoons, the visuals especially in combination with a free flowing improvised soundtrack are intrinsically humorous, absurd and captivating.

In addition to the live scores visuals, Halpin will also showcase this incredible band with some new original compositions.

Eintrittspreis: 15 €

Matthew Halpin - saxophone, composition
Hanno Busch - e guitar
Simon Jermyn - e bass
Roberto Giaquinto - drums
Alan Swaine and M. Halpin - visuals

Matthew Halpin - saxophone, composition -

Homepage: www.matthewhalpinmusic.com

Facebook Profil: www.facebook.com/matthew.halpin.526?lst=100000310120336%3A1303945563%3A1489563363

Matthew Halpin is a tenor saxophonist born in 1991 in Dublin, Ireland. He graduated from Berklee College of Music in 2013 (BA) and is currently based in Ireland and Germany.

Matthew began studying saxophone at the Royal Irish Academy of Music (Dublin) from 2000 - 2007. In 2008 he took part in the Banff Centre's workshop in jazz and creative music directed by Dave Douglas.
Matthew commenced his bachelor degree studies at Berklee College of Music in 2009. In 2010 he was chosen to take part in the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, a highly concentrated 2 year music performance program headed by pianist Danilo Perez. He graduated from Berklee College of Music (Boston) in 2013 as one of two international presidential scholars of that year.

Over the years he has studied with George Garzone, Joe Lovano, Ben Street, John Patitucci, Danilo Perez, Jamie Oehlers, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Terri-Lynn Carrington, Julian Lage and Hal Crook.

Matthew leads and co-leads several small bands, some under his own name, others include "Last Chance Dance" (with David Helm and Fabian Arends) and "The Owl Ones" (with Veronika Morscher, Kit Downes, Pablo Held and guests).
He also works with larger ensembles such as the RTE National Concert Orchestra, the Dublin City Jazz Orchestra and the Irish Youth Jazz Ensemble.

For the past number of years, Matthew has been part of the faculty at the Sligo Jazz Project in Ireland.

Has performed at the Blue Note and Dizzy's Jazz Club in New York, the Panama Jazz Festival, the Monterrey Jazz Festival, the Newport Jazz Festival, the Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival, the National Concert Hall of Ireland, the Sligo Jazz Project, the Galway Jazz Festival, Merkin Concert Hall in New York, the Berklee Performance Center and the Kennedy Center.

He performs more frequently in small, dark, smelly, bars, pubs and jazz clubs.

Hanno Busch - guitar  -

Homepage: hannobusch.com/

Der Kölner Hanno Busch ist ein aufregender, inspirierender Gitarrist. Wie kaum ein zweiter in der europäischen Musikszene verbindet er einen ureigenen, wiedererkennbaren Stil und einen einzigartigen, sich stetig weiterentwickelnden Sound mit einer Flexibilität und Neugier, die ihn auch unvereinbar scheinende Punkte auf der musikalischen Landkarte wie selbstverständlich zusammenführen lässt. Er begann seinen Weg mit einem Studium an der Hochschule der Künste in Amsterdam und startete gleich auf mehreren Terrains äußerst erfolgreich durch. So spielte er Tourneen und Studioproduktionen mit etablierten oder heiß gehandelten jungen Jazzern, darunter Peter Weniger, die NDR Big Band feat. Bobby McFerrin, Niels Klein – “Tubes & Wires”, Peter Herbolzheimers “Rhythm Combination & Brass”, [re:jazz] oder Jesse Milliner. Gleichermaßen aber auch mit dem Altrock’n’Roller Peter Kraus, dem Popstar Sasha oder dem intellektuellen Indie-Überflieger Peter Licht. Seit 2007 ist er zudem festes Bandmitglied der “Heavytones”, der Hausband bei “TV Total” mit Stefan Raab.

Nicht zuletzt die Begegnung mit Michael Wollny und Tamar Halperin (bei”Wunderkammer”), mit denen er 2010 bei Jazz Baltica spielte, führte Hanno Busch dazu, seine Kreativität verstärkt in eigenen Projekten auszuleben. Neben dem „Hanno Busch Trio“ entstand so die Formation “Sommerplatte”, für die Busch gemeinsam mit dem Keyboarder Tobias Philippen Songs schreibt.