Ensemble
Nicklas Koppe
Piano | Concept | Composition | Artistic direction
Nicklas Koppe is a pianist and composer. His work combines jazz, contemporary music, improvisation, and programmatic music, often incorporating scientific perspectives on climate and environmental issues.
He studied physics in Leipzig and jazz piano in Weimar, and has released albums with the bands Saving Eddy and the Max Enyedi Quartet, as well as in a duo with clarinetist Gervasio Tarragona Valli. He is the founder and director of the ensemble 'Don’t Worry, It’s Out of Control'.
www.nicklas-koppe.de
Nadja Kracunovic
Text | Concept | Performance
Nađa Kračunović (b. 1996, Serbia) is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist working across performance, visual arts, and theater. Her work explores survival through gender, sexuality, citizenship, (dis)ability, and social norms, often using voice, humor, poetry, and personal archives. She animates public spaces with female figures and real-life protagonists.
Her work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Bauhaus Museum Weimar, and BØWIE Gallery, and she has joined residencies in Portugal, Egypt, and Germany.
Nađa co-founded Crying Classroom, a platform exploring crying as art. Since 2023, she leads How to Perform a Scream? workshops and is the co-founder of the Ensemble 'Don´t Worry, It’s Out of Control'.
www.nadjakracunovic.com
Gervasio Tarragona Valli
Clarinet
Gervasio Tarragona Valli, born in Montevideo, was musically encouraged at an early age and played in the Destaoriya Tango Orchestra and the Montevideo Swing Jazz Quintet as a teenager. In 2017, he made his debut as a soloist with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and won the Tokyo Music Competition. This was followed by performances with renowned orchestras worldwide. He has won several prizes at international competitions, has taught music in Palestine and Ghana and has performed at festivals such as the Fredener Musiktage and the Davos Music Festival. Valli has worked with artists such as Sir Neville Marriner, Nemanja Radulovic and Alice Sara Ott.
www.gervamusic.de
Tara Sarter
Saxophone (Live)
Tara Sarter is an independent artist with an international practice. Together with the Munich label “Squama”, she released her first album “What I Am and What I'm Not” in March 2025 with her project “SARTER KIT”. She says herself: "I could of course list many more projects/names, but what does that say about my career or, more importantly, about my life as a person. I don't think much of biographies."
Peter Ehwald
Saxophone (Recording)
Peter Ehwald (*1979, Berlin) is a jazz saxophonist and composer specialising in the combination of jazz and contemporary music. He studied in Weimar, Cologne, London and New York (with John Patitucci, Rich Perry, among others) and was a DAAD scholarship holder.
He has played with international greats such as Tom Rainey, Nils Wogram, Rudi Mahall and Eivind Aarset. Back in Berlin since 2007, he leads his own projects such as ‘Double Trouble’ and ‘Septuor de Grand Matin’ and co-operates with the Korean ensemble ~su. As artistic director of the Goethe project ‘Backyard Jazz Orchestra’, he was active in south-east Europe and was artist in residence in South Korea.
Ehwald teaches at the music universities in Weimar and Detmold. His music has been released on around 30 CDs and he has toured the world, including the UK, South Korea, the USA and Latin America.
www.peter-ehwald.net
Daniel Moreno
Trombone
Daniel Moreno is a trombonist, composer and music teacher. His music and music-making are deeply rooted in jazz and Latin American musical traditions. After studying humanities in Bogotá and Erfurt, he studied jazz trombone at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Weimar. Moreno is active in bands in which groove takes centre stage, including the salsa band Guay and the Latin jazz formation La Cocina. With the quartet Amaranta, he is dedicated to traditional Cuban and Colombian music. He is also part of the ensemble “Don't worry, it's out of control” and brings his compositions to the stage with the band American Moods.
Julia Villarroel
Guitar
Julia comes from Guayaquil, Ecuador, and currently lives in Germany. She performed over 200 times at a young age, won competitions and took part in international festivals. She has released two CDs in Ecuador and became a member of the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana.
She completed her studies with honours in Spain (Vigo) and Germany (Weimar) and is currently continuing her training in the concert exam. She has received several scholarships for her achievements.
In 2023 she released the CD “Salgado en seis cuerdas” with her own transcriptions of the Ecuadorian composer Luis H. Salgado, which was published in Spain and presented in concerts in Spain and Germany.
Julia has performed several times as a soloist with orchestras in Spain, Germany and South America and will soon do the same in Spain. She is an artist with Knobloch and Open Strings Berlin.
www.juliavillarroelguitar.com
Felix Gerbig
Bass (Live)
Felix Gerbig, born in Aachen in 1996, started playing the trumpet at the age of nine, switched to electric bass at 14 and received lessons from Daniel Bätge and Martin Bosch. From 2016, he studied electric bass and double bass in Weimar with Manfred Bründl. Today, he is active as a musician, improviser and composer in various bands, including ‘Alehlokapi’, ‘Top Chopper’ and the ensemble ‘Don't Worry, it's out of control’. Felix Gerbig lives in Leipzig.
Thomas Tito
Bass (Recording)
Thomas Ccahuana Tito is a bassist, singer and baritone guitarist. Since his teenage years he had been part in a variety of groups, gaining experience both as sideman as well as frontman. His musical vocabulary ranges from psychedelic rock and death metal to hip hop, soul, jazz and Latin American music. Since completing his studies in Weimar he now lives in Leipzig, is active as co-founder of the band FAT MANNERS and teaches at a music school in Jena.
Felix Neumann
Drums
Felix Neumann began his musical education at the age of 6 on the piano. At the age of 12, after a short break, he switched to the drumset, which awakened his enthusiasm for playing in bands and combos.
From 2019, he studied jazz drumset with Jo Thönes in Weimar and successfully completed his studies in 2024. During this time, he got to know many people who shaped his playing and challenged him creatively. Felix is active in various bands, including ‘Running Nose’ with guitarist Buchuan Zheng and saxophonist Tara Sarter, “Alehlokapi”, Jan Frisch's ‘AUA AUA’, ‘Kurtin Bangs’ and others.
He acts as a sideman, improviser and composer, whereby the boundaries between these roles are often fluid.
Since September 2024 he has been completing his Master's degree in Jazz and Contemporary Music Performance at the University of the Arts in Bern, and receives lessons from Jim Black, Dejan Terzic and Ralph Alessi.
Fridolin Krön
Visuals
Fridolin Krön is a guitarist, composer, and improviser.
He performs in various line-ups and bands as well as solo in the fields of improvised music, jazz and jazz-related music, experimental music, and in interdisciplinary contexts.
He studied electric guitar in Weimar and Lucerne (CH). Fridolin Krön lives in Leipzig.
www.fridolinkroen.com