{"id":239318,"date":"2025-07-03T15:01:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T15:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/239318\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T15:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T15:01:21","slug":"43rd-suedtirol-jazz-festival-alto-adige-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/239318\/","title":{"rendered":"43rd Suedtirol Jazz Festival Alto Adige, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cA courageous and inspiring fixture in the summer\u2019s cultural landscape.\u201d<\/strong> Ralf Dombrowski attended the first weekend of the 43rd Suedtirol Jazz Festival Alto Adige. Here is his reflection on what makes this festival uniquely appealing \u2013 in an English version and then in the original German. <\/strong><\/p>\n

A festival is, and needs to be, so much more than just a sequence of concerts. The simple act of making music accessible by placing it in front of people is no longer enough, and that\u2019s because audiences have unlimited access to music via the myriad channels of the internet. What is so much more important these days is to make use of a recognisable, identifiable and trusted profile to make it easier for audiences to make their own choices. \u2018We were really delighted by the fact that so many people \u2013 and in particular so many young people \u2013 came to the Techpark for the opening of the festival,\u2019 says Stefan Festini Cucco,<\/strong> who took over the running of the S\u00fcdtirol Jazzfestival Alto Adige from Klaus Widmann three years ago, together with Max von Pretz<\/strong> and Roberto Tubaro<\/strong>. \u2018Brainteaser Orchestra plays extremely challenging music, but the audience absolutely lapped it up.\u2019<\/p>\n

So, as a festival organiser, the good news is that you can definitely afford to take some risks. These Dutch musicians, who alternate between elaborate arrangements and extensive improvising, played with orchestral heft and power at the Techpark in Bolzano. They did several performances. As an opener for the evening, for example, they presented chamber music in a reduced sextet format, a refined, shimmering sound in the atrium of the venue under the motto \u2018Industrial Echoes\u2019, some of which was played while walking around the room. The next day the musicians spread out along the path a chairlift on the slopes of the Vigiljoch near Merano and got into an associative and spontaneous dialogue with natural sounds and fitted into the surroundings. \u2018Floating Through Sound\u2019 was more of a sound installation than a concert, an unusual listening experience, the opportunity for both passers-by and festival visitors to unwind.<\/p>\n

\"\"Floating Through Sound, Members of Brainteaser Orchestra, Vigiljoch,
Suedtirol Jazzfestival, Photo (c) Ralf Dombrowski<\/p>\n

This event was a good example of the management team\u2019s priorities. On the one hand, the aim is to continue the opening up of the festival across the South Tyrol region, a trend put in place by Klaus Widmann. Unusual and sometimes remote locations such as the Prettau climate tunnel or the Rifugio Juac hut in Wolkenstein in Gr\u00f6den are just as much a part of the festival as more central locations like the Walterplatz in Bolzano, the municipal library in Brixen or the fortress rooms of Franzensfeste\/Fortezza. And since most of the festival concerts are free of charge, in order to give as many people as possible access to the music, sometimes one comes across people for whom an encounter jazz was the last thing they were expecting to stumble across on their walk\u2026.<\/p>\n

There are surprise concerts too, such as \u2018Sonic Reactions,\u2019 a duo series with spontaneously assembled groups. Cooperative and interactive projects such as the Euregio Jazz Workshop, launched in 2017, also bring together young talent from across the borders of the Greater Region of Tyrol, South Tyrol and Trentino. This fits in perfectly with the S\u00fcdtirol Jazzfestival Alto Adige\u2019s philosophy: It\u2019s not about stars, but about surprises. None of these concerts could be transplanted elsewhere in this form. And each one develops its own special charm by being at one with the location, and by allowing the enthusiasm that music without creative boundaries can generate to really take hold. Many moments in the programme are experiments. <\/p>\n

And that is precisely what makes the South Tyrol Jazz Festival Alto Adige, now in its 43rd edition, such a courageous and inspiring fixture in the summer\u2019s cultural landscape, and also which makes its unique character and identity resonate far beyond the region.<\/p>\n

\"\"Brainteaser Orchestra at Techpark. Photo (c) Ralf Dombrowski<\/p>\n

43.S\u00fcdtirol Jazzfestival Alto Adige<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ein Festival ist mehr als die Summe seiner Konzerte. Denn es geht heute nicht mehr darum, Musik zug\u00e4nglich zu machen. Das hat das Internet mit seinen vielen Kan\u00e4len des Daten- und Kulturtransports \u00fcbernommen. Viel wichtiger ist es inzwischen, ein wiedererkennbares Profil und einen Impuls zur Identifikation zu bieten, die dem Publikum die Entscheidung leichter machen, eine Wahl zu treffen. \u201eWir waren wirklich sehr gl\u00fccklich, dass zur Er\u00f6ffnung des Festivals so viele und vor allem auch so viele junge Leute in den Techpark gekommen sind\u201c, meint Stefan Festini Cucco, der zusammen mit Max von Pretz und Roberto Tubaro vor drei Jahren die Leitung des S\u00fcdtirol Jazzfestivals Alto Adige von Klaus Widmann \u00fcbernommen hat. \u201eDas Brainteaser Orchestra macht ja durchaus anspruchsvolle Musik, aber dem Publikum hat es gefallen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Man kann als Veranstalter also durchaus etwas wagen. Die zwischen aufw\u00e4ndigen Arrangements und ausf\u00fchrlichen Improvisationen changierenden Niederl\u00e4nder bespielten den Techpark in Bozen mit orchestraler Wucht. Und sie kamen mehrfach zum Einsatz. Als Intro des Abends zum Beispiel pr\u00e4sentierten sie mit zum Sextett reduzierter Besetzung im Lichthof des Gel\u00e4ndes unter dem Motto \u201eIndustrial Echoes\u201c kammermusikalische, fein flirrende und teilweise beim Wandeln im Raum gespielte Kl\u00e4nge. Tags darauf wiederum verteilten sich die Musiker und Musikerinnen entlang eines Sessellifts an den H\u00e4ngen des Vigiljochs bei Meran und korrespondierten assoziativ und spontan mit den Naturkl\u00e4ngen des Gel\u00e4ndes. \u201eFloating Through Sound\u201c war mehr Klanginstallation als Konzert, ein ungew\u00f6hnliches und entschleunigendes H\u00f6rerlebnis f\u00fcr die vorbeigleitenden Zufalls- und Festivalbesucher.<\/p>\n

Und es war damit ein passendes Beispiel f\u00fcr die Schwerpunkte, die das Leitungsteam setzt. Zum einen geht es darum, die von Klaus Widmann entwickelte \u00d6ffnung des Festivals \u00fcber ganz S\u00fcdtirol hinweg fortzusetzen. Ungew\u00f6hnliche und manchmal entlegene B\u00fchnen wie der Klimastollen Prettau oder die Rifugio Juac H\u00fctte von Wolkenstein in Gr\u00f6den geh\u00f6ren ebenso zu den Spielorten wie der Walterplatz in Bozen, die Stadtbibliothek in Brixen oder die Festungsr\u00e4ume von Franzensfeste\/Fortezza. Die meisten Konzerte des Festivals finden bei freiem Eintritt statt, um m\u00f6glichst vielen Menschen den Zugang zur Musik zu erm\u00f6glichen, manchmal sogar solchen, die gar nicht damit gerechnet hatten, bei ihren Ausfl\u00fcgen auf Jazz zu sto\u00dfen.<\/p>\n

Es gibt \u00dcberraschungskonzerte wie \u201eSonic Reactions\u201c als Duo-Reihe mit spontanen Konstellationen. Kooperative und interaktive Projekte wie die 2017 erstmals ins Leben gerufene Euregio Jazzwerkstatt bringen au\u00dferdem grenz\u00fcberschreitend den Nachwuchs der Gro\u00dfregion Tirol, S\u00fcdtirol und Trentino zusammen. Das passt \u00fcberhaupt zur Linie des S\u00fcdtirol Jazzfestivals Alto Adige. Es geht nicht um die Stars, sondern um \u00dcberraschungen. Keines der Konzerte k\u00f6nnte man in dieser Form anderswohin verpflanzen. Und jedes entwickelt seinen speziellen Reiz auch dadurch, dass es mit dem Ort und der Begeisterung korrespondiert, die Musik ohne gestalterische Grenzen zu entwickeln vermag. Denn viele Momente im Programm sind Experimente. Und gerade das macht das S\u00fcdtirol Jazzfestival Alto Adige auch in seiner 43. Ausgabe zu einem ebenso mutigen wie inspirierenden Fixpunkt in der sommerlichen Kulturlandschaft weit \u00fcber die Region hinaus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cA courageous and inspiring fixture in the summer\u2019s cultural landscape.\u201d Ralf Dombrowski attended the first weekend of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3976],"tags":[331,332,13,14,15,12,3992,3993,3994,3995,3996,3997],"class_list":{"0":"post-239318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vereinigtes-koenigreich","8":"tag-aktuelle-nachrichten","9":"tag-aktuelle-news","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-nachrichten","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-schlagzeilen","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and-northern-ireland","17":"tag-vereinigtes-koenigreich","18":"tag-vereinigtes-koenigreich-grossbritannien-und-nordirland","19":"tag-vereinigtes-koenigreich-von-grossbritannien-und-nordirland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@de\/114789907750812591","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}