Balta a fejbe

A supergroup assembled to mark the centenary of the birth of John Coltrane, the legendary saxophonist and creator of spiritual jazz. In the words of its most senior member, saxophonist Joe Lovano, the group pays tribute to Coltrane’s compositions, while discovering and expressing themselves in his spirit.

One thing we know for certain about the 21st century is that it will be when the survivors of the Holocaust take their last breath. Every single one of them. Slowly but surely, they are leaving us to our own devices. “Do we want to forget what happened, as if it were a bad dream, or do we want to accept the events as human civilization’s greatest trauma?” the author Péter Esterházy once asked.

“A notable emerging talent,” The Strad wrote of the Swedish violinist, who has triumphed at prestigious competitions such as the Premio Paganini and the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition. Ava Bahari is currently the resident artist of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.