Jonas Sorgenfrei: Invites

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With “Invites”, Jonas Sorgenfrei launches a new format that brings together art, society, and dialogue. It is a mobile, open platform that enables artistic, social, and intercultural exchange in a variety of forms.

"Invites" understands itself as a series of invitations – Volumes – that connect people beyond the framework of art. Initially conceived as a flexible concert series, it has now evolved into an open platform for exchange: intersocial, intercultural, and interdisciplinary.

Each edition is an invitation to encounter and to a shift in perspective. An "Invite" may take the shape of a concert, a podcast, a video format, a conversation, or a session in a special location. What matters is not the form itself, but the dialogue it creates. In this way, “Invites” opens new pathways and expands the possibilities of artistic encounter, pursuing the following goals:

It connects musicians, cultural actors, communities, and audiences both regionally and across regions.
It creates interactive opportunities for exchange – not only during the events, but also before and after.
It links urban cultural centers with rural regions, complementing existing cultural offerings and creating new spaces for encounter.
Each Volume may differ in form and content – whether as a concert, podcast, video, or discussion format.

Through its changing locations – from metropolitan cultural hubs to rural settings – “Invites” creates opportunities to bring diverse people together and to explore new forms of artistic and social interaction.

With “Invites”, a temporary creative commune emerges that deliberately dissolves the boundaries between stage, audience, and medium – open, flexible, and always inviting.

©Dirk Baierlipp

– Volume 1: “A journey through sound” feat. Nicola Missing & Paul Bießmann

– Volume 2: “The traditional piano trio” feat. Luca Zambito & Rudi Engel

– Volume 1: “A journey through sound” feat. Nicola Missing & Paul Bießmann (english)

With "Invites", percussionist, composer and artist Jonas Sorgenfrei is launching a new, mobile concert series that brings together musicians from different regions and scenes for interactive concert evenings. Volume 1 kicks off the series - an evening of sound improvisation, lyrics and songs. Live electronics, modular synthesizers, drumset sounds and voices meet in completely unique, sometimes improvisationally created sound worlds.

With Nicola Missing, a new voice and rising star of the Amsterdam jazz scene, and Nuremberg pianist, electronic and digital artist Paul Bießmann, who works intensively with sound, space and interaction, the three artists will create a musical triad about identity, perception and the magic of the moment - alongside plenty of space for discussions, introductions to the subject, the sound and a hopefully fulfilling sound experience with moving after-effects.

Nicola Missing – Vocals
Paul Bießmann - Modular-Synthesizer & Live Electronics
Jonas Sorgenfrei – Drums, Live Electronics & Concept

// DATES:

09/11/25 - @ Kaltscher Klup, Fürth

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©Nicola Missing

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– Vol. 2: “The traditional piano trio” feat. Luca Zambito & Rudi Engel (english)

For this concert evening, Jonas Sorgenfrei invites two friends and companions on piano and double bass to place the era of the “traditional piano trio” at the center of this concert evening.
On the piano is the exceptional Munich pianist Luca Zambito, currently one of the most up-and-coming artists on the Munich scene. With his own quartet or in collaboration with Fiona Grond, Nils Kugelmann, Moritz Stahl or, among many other projects, the Niq collective, he is an integral part of the young German jazz scene.

On double bass: Rudi Engel, who, after 34 years of teaching at the music universities in Würzburg and Nuremberg, is now enjoying his well-deserved retirement — and shaping the German jazz scene more than ever as a sideman. His trio "On The Corner", which has accompanied soloists such as Ack van Rooyen, Tony Lakatos, Bob Mintzer, and Dusko Goykovich, as well as the European Quartet with Ernie Watts, are just two examples of the many bands with which he has made a name for himself internationally over more than four decades — thanks to his highly focused playing, intense musical communication, and gritty, blues-infused solos.

The era of the “traditional piano trio” in jazz began around the 1930s and became particularly prominent in the 1940s and 1950s. In today's concert, this is the classic line-up of a piano trio, consisting of piano, bass and drums.
The trio would like to introduce you to this sound and style with a musical journey and a selected personal “best of” of the piano trios and interpret it live for you. Of course, artists such as Erroll Garner, Ahmad Jamal or Oscar Peterson and their songs from the depths of the original trios are not to be missed.
The ensemble around the initiator will also be available for a FAQ on the genre and, if necessary, further illustrations from the “All American Song Book” during or after the concert.

Luca Zambito - piano

Rudi Engel - double bass

Jonas Sorgenfrei - drums & moderator

// DATES:

11/15/25 - @ Schlosssaal, Neunburg vorm Wald