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9 February 2024, at 7:00 p.m., Multicultural Centre of Transilvania University

On Friday, 9 February, starting at 7:00 p.m., Chamber Jazz@Transilvania University will perform the concert Time in Our Hands, with Chris Dahlgren (viola da gamba), Mircea Tiberian (piano) and Claudio Puntin (clarinets).

The Trio Time in Our Hands consists of musicians and composers with unique voices and a vast experience that allows them to move with ease and spontaneity through musical genres and traditions, from baroque music to jazz and improvisation.

Chris Dahlgren is a musician, composer and professor. He was born in the United States, where he completed his musical studies and has performed with great jazz names such as Charles Tolliver, Herb Ellis, Johnny Coles & Joe Lavano. He is currently settled in Berlin where he performs, composes and collaborates with many European artists. In 2017 he recorded the album Dhalgren, followed in 2020 by Songs from a Dystopian Utopia, and in 2023 by Got Milk', released on Boomslang Records. Since 2004 he has been teaching at Hanns Eisler HfM and the Jazz Institute of Berlin.

Claudio Puntin is a composer, producer, clarinetist and professor. He has recorded more than 100 albums and has worked with artists such as Hermeto Pascoal, Sidsel Endresen, Max Loderbauer, Ricardo Villalobos, Jan Bang, Skuli Sverrisson, Carla Bley. He composes symphonic, electronic music, but also music for film or theater. He collaborates with the Radio Orchestra of Bavaria, Lucerne Jazz Orchestra, WDR Radio Orchestra of Cologne, Musikfabrik of Köln, Modern Ensemble, WDR Big Band, NDR Big Band, and more. He currently teaches at the University of the Arts of Berlin, and regularly holds master classes and workshops all over the world.

Mircea Tiberian is an emblematic figure of the Romanian jazz, with a musical activity that has materialized in thousands of concerts and more than twenty albums achieved under his own name; the latest of which appeared in 2019 on the Fiver House record label under the title Looking Forward to the Past. He is the initiator and leader of the first and most consequential form of higher education in jazz of our country. Interested as well in literature, musicology and the interference of artistic fields, he has published numerous articles, books and anthologies such as Magister Musicae in the Land of Smiles, Jazz Inside out (Tracus Arte, 2012) or the Sound of Reference (Nemira, 2013).

The event is organized with the financial support of Goethe Institute.

For seat reservations, please write to us at the email address cultural@unitbv.ro.