O Bar Irreal recebe o primeiro concerto a solo em Lisboa do violoncelista americano Fred Lonberg-Holm Fred Lonberg-Holm (born Wilmington, DE, in 1962) is a composer, cellist, and improviser currently based in Kingston, NY. A student of Anthony Braxton, Bunita Marcus, Morton Feldman, Pauline Oliveros, and Noah Creshevsky, he received a BS in composition from Brooklyn College and an MA in composition from Mills College. During the 1980s and early 1990s, he was active in the downtown New York improvised music scene. Fred moved to Chicago in 1995, where he became active in the Chicago improvised music scene. In addition to developing his own groups—Seval, the Valentine Trio, Pillow, Terminal 4, and In Zenith—he participated in numerous projects including the Peter Brötzmann Tentet, XMarsX (with Mars Williams), ADA Trio (with Peter Brötzmann and Paal Nilssen-Love), and the Vandermark 5. Currently, he is a member of Joe McPhee’s Survival Unit III (with Michael Zerang), NRG Ensemble and Witches and Devils (with Mars Williams), Party Knüllers (with Ståle Solberg), Boxhead Ensemble, The Chicago Plan (with Steve Swell and Gebhard Ullmann), eponymous duos with Frode Gjerstad and Simon Camatta, and Ballister (with Paal Nilssen-Love and Dave Rempis) as well as many "one off" projects. He also leads a number of ensembles, including Stirrup and the Lightbox Orchestra, a non-gestural conduction system that he developed in the mid-90’s for a large, ad-hoc ensemble of approximately 10 musicians. Since moving to Kingston, he has developed and co-curates a monthly improvised music series with bassist Michael Bisio. Fred has appeared and/or had works performed in numerous festivals on several continents, including Saalfelden, Voss, Kongsberg Jazz Festival, Oslo Jazz Festival, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Moers, Wels, A L’Arme (Berlin), Chicago Jazz Festival, and Newport Jazz Festival, among others. He has worked with a wide variety of improvisers both local and international, including Lotte Anker, Jim Baker, Jeb Bishop, Jaap Blonk, Peter Brötzmann, John Butcher, Anthony Coleman, Tim Daisy, Axl Dörner, Hamid Drake, Peter Evans, Frode Gjerstad, Mats Gustaffson, Shelly Hirsch, Charlotte Hug, Sofia Jernberg, Mazen Kerbaj, Kent Kessler, Ikue Mori, Paal Nilssen-Love, Rob Mazurek, Andrea Neumann, Jim O’Rourke, Jeff Parker, Avreeayl Ra, Akira Sakata, Ken Vandermark, Mars Williams, Nate Wooley, Michiyo Yagi, and Michael Zerang, as well as numerous others. His extensive discography includes free improvised and free jazz recordings as well as new music, pop, rock and noise. Photo by Nuno Martins
