Location Lund Quartet

"If you make it there ...". A young Norwegian guitarist, born in 1977, goes to the U.S. after graduation because he is passionate about graffiti and street art and ends up with a scholarship to Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 2002, he is the first electric guitarist ever to make it to the Juilliard School of Music in New York. In 2005, he won the prestigious Monk Competition. Since then Lage Lund has been considered either a "rising star" of the scene, one of the best guitarists of his generation, or one of those "who set the agenda for jazz improvisation in the 21st century" (Jazzcampus Mainz). On recordings of the "Criss Cross" label he can be heard with Ben Street, Bill Stewart, Larry Grenadier or Tyshawn Sorey. For his concert at Enjoy Jazz in co-production with the BASF cultural program, Lage has invited Cologne pianist Pablo Held, whose trio has long been a benchmark of European jazz.