Frischzelle — Festival fuer Intermediale Performance 10.09.2015 duesseldorf festival
ARTISTS
German-french bassist PASCAL NIGGENKEMPER played from early age on the violin and the piano. At the age of 17, he experienced the impact of improvised music and started to play the double bass.
In 1999 he moved to Cologne where he studied jazz and classical double bass at the Hochschule für Musik. He coleaded the audio visual dance project Turbo Pascale. This formation toured Germany, Kazakhstan, Czech Republic, Slovenia, and France, as well as appeared at Festivals such as the Moers Festival, Jazzmesse "Jazzahead Bremen" and the "WDR Jazznight" with live radio broadcast on WDR Radio.
In 2005 Pascal Niggenkemper was granted the DAAD Award and moved to New York.
It is in NY that Pascal met Robin Verheyen and Tyshawn Sorey and formed the PNTrio. The trio recorded the CD "pasàpas" (Konnex 2008) and "urban creatures" (JazzHausMusik 2010). PNTrio toured extensively in Europe (Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, France and Austria) They performed at the Jazzcologne Festival and the Jazzherbst Konstanz. Their performances were recorded for the WDR and the BR Radio. In June 2010 the Trio performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
With guitar player Scott DuBois and drummer Jeff Davis Pascal formed the group pascal's newfield, that explores an area where post-modern jazz aesthetic, rock music and contemporary classic music fuse together. The group toured in 2009 in Europe and will release the new CD 'metamorphose', documenting this work soon.
Pascal is also coleading the groups BaLoNi and Rosco Paje. With Frantz Loriot and friends, Pascal curates in NY the house concert series ze couch, where every two weeks artits meet to present their work. He is a member of Thomas Heberer's Clarino, Jean Carla Rodea's Azares, Joe Hertenstein's HNH (HNH on clean feed 2010) and Carlo Costa's Minerva.
Festival presece includes: Vision Festival, Viersen Jazz Festival, Strade del Cinema, Jazzcologne, NewAdits, Font, Moers etc...
He has played with musicians such as Louis Sclavis, Wolfgang Puschnig, Henning Berg, Claudio Puntin, Frank Gratkowski, Robin Verheyen, Scott DuBois, Gunther Schuller, Rudi Mahall, Terrence N'Gassa, Lionel Loueke, Phil Woods, Arve Henriksen, Frantz Loriot, Hans Lüdemann, Jeff Davis, Billy Harper, Thomas Heberer, Kris Davis, Beñat Achiary, Eddie Daniels, Jean-Paul Dessy, Daniel Carter, Joachim Badenhorst, Maria Schneider, Simon Nabatov, Gerald Cleaver, Steve Slagle, Tyshawn Sorey.
In 1999 he moved to Cologne where he studied jazz and classical double bass at the Hochschule für Musik. He coleaded the audio visual dance project Turbo Pascale. This formation toured Germany, Kazakhstan, Czech Republic, Slovenia, and France, as well as appeared at Festivals such as the Moers Festival, Jazzmesse "Jazzahead Bremen" and the "WDR Jazznight" with live radio broadcast on WDR Radio.
In 2005 Pascal Niggenkemper was granted the DAAD Award and moved to New York.
It is in NY that Pascal met Robin Verheyen and Tyshawn Sorey and formed the PNTrio. The trio recorded the CD "pasàpas" (Konnex 2008) and "urban creatures" (JazzHausMusik 2010). PNTrio toured extensively in Europe (Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, France and Austria) They performed at the Jazzcologne Festival and the Jazzherbst Konstanz. Their performances were recorded for the WDR and the BR Radio. In June 2010 the Trio performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
With guitar player Scott DuBois and drummer Jeff Davis Pascal formed the group pascal's newfield, that explores an area where post-modern jazz aesthetic, rock music and contemporary classic music fuse together. The group toured in 2009 in Europe and will release the new CD 'metamorphose', documenting this work soon.
Pascal is also coleading the groups BaLoNi and Rosco Paje. With Frantz Loriot and friends, Pascal curates in NY the house concert series ze couch, where every two weeks artits meet to present their work. He is a member of Thomas Heberer's Clarino, Jean Carla Rodea's Azares, Joe Hertenstein's HNH (HNH on clean feed 2010) and Carlo Costa's Minerva.
Festival presece includes: Vision Festival, Viersen Jazz Festival, Strade del Cinema, Jazzcologne, NewAdits, Font, Moers etc...
He has played with musicians such as Louis Sclavis, Wolfgang Puschnig, Henning Berg, Claudio Puntin, Frank Gratkowski, Robin Verheyen, Scott DuBois, Gunther Schuller, Rudi Mahall, Terrence N'Gassa, Lionel Loueke, Phil Woods, Arve Henriksen, Frantz Loriot, Hans Lüdemann, Jeff Davis, Billy Harper, Thomas Heberer, Kris Davis, Beñat Achiary, Eddie Daniels, Jean-Paul Dessy, Daniel Carter, Joachim Badenhorst, Maria Schneider, Simon Nabatov, Gerald Cleaver, Steve Slagle, Tyshawn Sorey.