Monday March 30 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * $15-25

Christoph Götzen is a guitarist, performer, improviser, curator, and educator with a primary focus on improvised and contemporary music. Career highlights include performances at Roulette Intermedium (New York City) and the Monheim Triennale II (Germany) with Selendis Sebastian Alexander Johnson, a live performance at Radio Central (Antwerp, Belgium) with Gabby Fluke-Mogul, performances at the N:EAR Festival in Slovakia, Leuven Jazz Festival in Belgium and Vinterjazz Festival in Copenhagen. Christoph’s music is guided by an intuitive yet precise artistic voice. He explores sound in ways that align with the free-spirited ethos of improvised and contemporary music. His work spans a broad spectrum – from solo guitar performances to large ensembles – always shaped by the unique circumstances of each project. Collaboration, synthesis, and an ever-curious mindset are central to his creative process, forming a musical identity that is both distinctive and continually evolving. With improvised music as his foundation, Christoph Götzen continuously develops and engages with a broad spectrum of materials, including composition, conducting and collective creation.

Darja Goldberg is a musician, performer, improvisor, composer, and educator who primarily plays the accordion. She studied music theory and accordion, and today focuses on experimental and interdisciplinary projects. Some highlights include interdisciplinary collaborations such as draum’ea (2025), mundane.magic (2024), Linea Materna (2025), the 120th Birthday of Georg Elser (2023), the Heppenheimer Festspiele (2022), and performances at festivals including 2k+ Antifestival, ContemPlay, Zeitströme, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Soundplasma Festival, AfektFestival, among others. Darja regularly collaborates with musicians, composers, and artists from a wide range of backgrounds—bridging contemporary music and folk traditions, theater and dance, as well as multimedia and audiovisual art. Through her work, Darja seeks to expand the expressive possibilities of the accordion and to connect diverse artistic disciplines. She wants to offer people an unforgettable experience through her music, to make the audience forget everything, leave their sorrows and troubles behind. Fleeting moments of harmony - a moment of pure joy where time stands still, and the world fades away. This can happen through new interdisciplinary projects, cooperation with other artists and doing everything possible that others say is not.

The Abe Mamet Ensemble's music is “as nuanced, dignified and alert as conversation between close friends" (Chris Richards/Washington Post). Together, the group weaves textures rooted in groove and committed to thoughtful improvisation, seeking beautiful horizons for the listener and themselves.