KammerJazz
3/19/2026
at 8:00 PM
/ Aachen
After 15 years in Cologne, pianist and composer Constantin Krahmer moved to Rostock in November 2021. There, he has taken a teaching position for piano at the HMT and has established the international concert series Bron, in which he invites musicians for concerts in Rostock (e.g. Thomas Morgan, Peter Bruun, Zola Mennenöh, Luise Volkmann, Carlos Bica, and many more). Additionally, he is a very active sideman (Maik Krahl Quartett, Ampair:e, Zuzana Leharova Quartett, etc.) and writes music for his own ensembles: After the album Close Up, released in February 2022, he released his trio debut album Care in 2024 with Thomas Morgan (b) and Leif Berger (dr). The septet is his current project, for which he is currently on release tour for the album Visions Fugitives (released on March 28, 2025, by Yew Records). He says about the album:
”Up until now, I have always composed for smaller bands, trio, quartet, quintet, but somehow I have been eager for a while to compose for a medium-sized ensemble. Something that is not yet a "Large Ensemble" or a smaller big band, but where all musicians can still significantly influence the music. Four wind instruments, for example, can create great colors and textures together, and at the same time, the lineup is still manageable, and everyone can react spontaneously. And that is very important to me: I want to give my fellow musicians maximum freedom; my compositions should serve as a reservoir of notation text, melodies, multi-voiced passages, ideas, etc., from which all participants can draw and make decisions about in the moment. Or they have other good ideas that I wouldn't have thought of, and I certainly don’t want to restrict that!"
“With Visions Fugitives, Constantin Krahmer joins the group of jazz composers who have a sense for a good balance of improvisation/composition, heart/mind, and consonance/dissonance. Music that is enjoyable to listen to, that inspires, and that surprises. Additionally, the band is truly outstanding in its lineup!”
Nils Wogram, jazz trombonist
"Constantin Krahmer's septet album Visions Fugitives is an art gallery for the ears, conceived, composed, and curated by a master of sound color symbolism and translated into acoustic imagery by seven painters with distinct brushwork and clearly defined color commitment."
Wolf Kampmann, jazz journalist