| “Enchanted by a woman
whose music gave voice to something so eternal and ancient, I listened
as the young and the old, the new and the forever, collided and merged.
The alchemy of musical genius.” Nora Guthrie, Woody Guthrie Productions
Anti von Klewitz is the
musical leader of Csokolom, a group whose music is rooted in Hungarian
and Gypsy traditions, but whose performances will also include jazz, gypsy-swing
and Latin-American music. From Germany originally, charismatic singer,
composer/arranger, and dynamic violin player, Anti von Klewitz, trained
as a classical violin player in Zagreb (former Yugoslavia) , followed by
jazz training with John Coltrane’s former bass player, Reginald Workman.
As a violin player, Anti focuses on Eastern European music, tango and jazz
improvisation,and is recognised as one of the first performers to introduce
Hungarian music to Germany. Now based in Amsterdam and Berlin,
Anti divides her time between performing with Csokolom; a Cuban-style
salsa band Cha-Charanga; Berlin Balkan jazz trio Hora Colora; and
composing for dance and theatre companies. Csokolom are: Sander
Hoving, jazz violin and the kontra (Hungarian chord-violin); Anneke
Frankenberg, violin, Gregor Schafer, double-bass. |
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