Gregor Kilian & his All Star- Band - Swing à la Benny Goodman
Carnegie Hall project with special guests
& swing dance show with the Lieselhoppers under the direction of Moonika Saar from "Swing in Göttingen e.V."

"A fast-paced swing fireworks display with the elegance and style of the 30s and 40s" (HNA)

Following the success of last year, the Old Town Hall will once again immerse itself in the hot swing era, with the sound of the Benny Goodman small group format and the ballroom atmosphere of the 1920s to 1940s.

Cast:
Gregor Kilian (Piano)
Holger Werner (Clarinet, Saxophone)
Matthias Strucken (Vibraphone)
Nils Conrad (Drums)
Inna Vysotska (Vocals)

Moonika Saar: Artistic director of the Lieselhoppers

We thank our sponsors for their support: City of Göttingen, Swing in Göttingen e.V., and Göttinger Digitaldruck.

Gregor Kilian & his All Star-Band

In 1938, Benny Goodman made jazz concert music with his legendary Carnegie Hall concert in New York. Not only his big band, but also trio and quartet configurations with Teddy Wilson, Gene Krupa, and Lionel Hampton drove the crowds wild and brought swing to the first television cameras.

Gregor Kilian
Gregor Kilian from Göttingen is known throughout Germany as a stride, swing, and boogie pianist, as well as a piano duet partner of Joe Pentzlin or as the pianist of the Hamburg band "Hot Reeds & Rhythm." He has played with the Hamburg Jazz Lips, Norbert Susemihls Joyful Gumbo, Claus Jacobi, Thomas L’Etienne, Torsten Zwingenberger, and, for instance, the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra. Together with drummer Nils Conrad, he hosts the "Blues’n‘ Boogie Kitchen" every third Thursday of the month in Göttingen, featuring notable musical guests. As a ship musician, he has performed on the cruise ships MS Deutschland, MS Europa (II), and most recently on the "Traumschiff" MS Amadea.
http://www.gregor-kilian.de

Inna Vysotska
Inna Vysotska, a jazz singer with a diploma from Hanover, was born in Donetsk, Ukraine. She took piano and singing lessons from the age of seven, as well as ear training and music theory classes. Inna Vysotska has already received several awards at international competitions. Among other accolades, she is a prize winner of the Grand Prix Pop competition in Donetsk / Ukraine in 2003 and 2004, and received the first prize of the EUMAC Star Award in Bremen in 2006. She has also been involved in ensembles like Colibri, Leon Gurvic Project, Eldorado Groove Orchestra, and the Knut Richter Swingtett. In 2020, she toured Scandinavia with "Inna Vysotska and The Untouchables."
http://www.inna-jazz.de/

Matthias Strucken
The Cologne-based diploma vibraphonist Matthias Strucken has worked in workshops and many concerts with renowned musicians such as David Friedman, Barbara Dennerlein, Bill Ramsey, Paul Kuhn, Emil Mangelsdorff, Beverly Daley, Siggi Gerhard, Paul Kuhn, Klaus Doldinger, and John Taylor and has toured internationally. Matthias Strucken leads several of his own bands: the Matthias Strucken Swingtett, the Milt Jackson Project, the Latin band Con Mucho Gusto, the jazz trio jazz3, the Behr-Strucken duo, Artfusion, and soulbrothers. Since 2016, he has also collaborated with Joscho Stephan.
https://matthiasstrucken.de/ and https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Strucken

Holger Werner
The Cologne-based diploma clarinetist and saxophonist Holger has completed his studies in jazz and classical music in Cologne and Rotterdam. Since 2010, he has been a member of the Joe Wulf Sextet (Gentlemen of Swing) and has led the German Vintage Jazz Orchestra, among others. In the Cologne jazz and improvisation scene, Werner works with the Frederik Köster Jazz Orchestra, the Hannah Köpf Band, Robert Landfermann’s project Tiefgang, the formation 3X3, the Stefan Schultze Ensemble, the group Bellbird, and the Jakob Kühnemann Quartet. Holger Werner is active in various line-ups in the European jazz scene, including with Sean Moyses and Clive Fenton.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger_Werner_(Musiker)

Nils Conrad
Nils Conrad, a jazz drummer from Kiel, was a student of the Dutch drumming legend Huub Janssen and has a wide range of styles. He is currently one of the most successful up-and-coming European drummers in New Orleans, swing, and boogie woogie, playing in various formations in Northern Germany as well as in his own formation "Nils Conrad and his Amazing Jazzband" based in the Netherlands. He received the "Kobe Street Award 2013" soloist prize at the Jazz Festival in Breda / Netherlands.
https://www.shz.de/lokales/neumuenster/artikel/caribean-music-voller-energie-41618130

Doors open at 19:30, free seating