Trio Saint Tropez (DE)

With violinist Julia Czerniawska, the group Subsystem explores the world of French jazz and swing - from Django Reinhardt to Boris Vian. The result is a surrealist collage: falsely Latin grooves interwoven with noisy improvisations and chamber miniatures, a multicultural blend between Paris, New York and Berlin. An unconventional crossover emerges - the band can sound like a string trio one moment, hold a groove like a funk band the next, then slip into free improvisation.

The project was created on commission for the Berlin concert series Zugabe! Django Reinhardt and French Jazz, sponsored by the Berlin Senate. After their first performance, all three musicians were so enthusiastic about the possibilities of this instrumentation and repertoire that it became their permanent ensemble, with which they have since explored the possibilities of this unusual trio.

Trio Saint Tropez:

Julia Czerniawska - violin
Grew up in a musical family and studied violin in Poland and Austria at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg. After years of performing in European orchestras, she discovered jazz and improvised music. She has collaborated with Didier Lockwood in Paris and leads the projects CBA String Trio and Julia Czerniawska Group.

Almut Schlichting - baritone saxophone
For more than 25 years she has been active in Berlin as a saxophonist, composer and curator. She focuses on jazz, contemporary music, performance and theatre. She regularly performs with the duo Subsystem and the trio Insomnia Brass Band.

Sven Hinse - double bass
Graduate of the Berlin University of the Arts and the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre. He works as a jazz, radio and theatre musician and collaborates with, among others, WDR, RBB and Deutsches Theater Berlin.