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SUMMARY:Lotus Flowers: Bruno Angelini – Angelika Niescier – Sakina Abdo
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LOCATION:Hakasalmen huvila
DESCRIPTION:Vapaat äänet\, celebrating its 30th anniversary this autumn\,
  brings French pianist Bruno Angelini’s Lotus Flowers trio to Finland in
  November 2026\, featuring saxophonists Angelika Niescier and Sakina Abdou
 . The lotus flower is a thing of beauty born from the mud\, a metaphor for
  a troubled world. “When this flower blooms in the muddy marsh\, the wat
 er clears around the stem! The lotus is a symbol of light!”\, the late s
 axophonist Wayne Shorter says in a documentary about his life. This allego
 ry inspired French pianist Bruno Angelini to compose a new repertoire. The
  resulting pieces pay tribute to the lotus flowers of our history – figu
 res such as Wayne Shorter\, Jane Addams\, Berta Cáceres and Nelson Mandel
 a\, each of whom worked in their own way for the common good. At the heart
  of Angelini’s compositions are committed\, purposeful melodies\, interp
 reted by the pianist and saxophonists Sakina Abdou and Angelika Niescier w
 ith raw lyricism and great freedom. Bruno Angelini is an experienced and h
 ighly respected musician on the French jazz scene. Originally from Marseil
 les and classically trained\, the pianist has long led his own ensembles\,
  including the quartet Open Land with violinist Régis Huby\, bassist Clau
 de Tchamitchian and drummer Edward Perraud. Over the years\, Angelini has 
 performed with musicians including Kenny Wheeler\, Hélène Labarrière\, 
 Louis Sclavis\, Catherine Delaunay\, Andrew Cyrille and Reggie Workman. Fo
 unded in 2024\, the Lotus Flowers trio has received an enthusiastic respon
 se and has performed extensively in France\, Germany and Austria. The Abal
 one label released the album Lotus Flowers in spring 2025. Angelika Niesci
 er is an exceptionally versatile musician who for many years has played an
  active role in shaping the new jazz scene in both Europe and North Americ
 a. She is an uncompromising artist bursting with energy\, mastering a vivi
 d palette of colours with virtuosic technique. Born in Poland\, Niescier i
 s based in Cologne. Her collaborators include Joachim Kühn\, Tyshawn Sore
 y\, Nicole Mitchell\, Kris Davis\, Gerry Hemingway\, Nasheet Waits\, Jim B
 lack\, Sylvie Courvoisier\, Aki Takase and Soweto Kinch. The multiple awar
 d-winning Niescier received the Deutscher Jazzpreis in 2024. In this year
 ’s DownBeat Critics Poll\, she placed fourth in the Rising Star category
 . Sakina Abdou is a versatile artist who began playing jazz and improvised
  music at the age of 14 with the Muzzix collective in Lille\, northern Fra
 nce. While studying saxophone and recorder\, she also attended art school.
  Since 2019\, she has devoted herself fully to her career as a musician. A
 bdou performs in several international ensembles and participates in proje
 cts including the Franco-American collaborative programme The Bridge. In 2
 022\, she recorded her first solo album\, Goodbye Ground\, in New York (Re
 lative Pitch Records). Finnish audiences have previously heard her as a me
 mber of pianist Eve Risser’s Red Desert Orchestra (2024)\, and in Novemb
 er 2026 she will return to Finland to perform with the Colombian-French qu
 artet !Ya Voy!. Bruno Angelini Lotus Flowers Bruno Angelini: piano\, compo
 sitions (FR) Angelika Niescier: alto saxophone (DE) Sakina Abdou: tenor sa
 xophone (FR) The YouTube video features excerpts from a concert. The conce
 rt is supported by City of Helsinki\, Svenska Kulturfonden and The Finnish
  Music Foundation.\n\nBoletos: https://fienta.com/lotus-flowers-bruno-ange
 lini-angelika-niescier-sakina-abdou
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