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11.09.2026 BCMF brda contemporary music festival

Jack to Jack
Frank Gratkowski – woodwinds
Harri Sjöström – soprano and sopranino sax

Trio
Frank Gratkowski – woodwinds
Silvia Bologniesi – double bass
Lucia Martinez – drums

 Medana, Slovenia
13.09.2026 Fie Schouten / Sophie Hassfurther / Frank Gratkowski ‘Rumoer’
19:00

Fie Schouten – clarinets
Sophie Hassfurther – saxophone
Frank Gratkowski – woodwinds

 Porgy&Bess @ Strenge Kammer Riemergasse 11, 1010 Wien, AT
18.09.2026 Artikulationen – solo music for alto sax and (bass)clarinet
21:00

Frank Gratkowski – reeds

Part of the 69th International Festival of Contemporary Music “Warsaw Autumn”

 Pardon To Tu Aleja Armii Ludowej 14, Warszawa, Poland
21.09.2026 IMPRONEDJELJAK / IMPROMONDAY 6 International festival of free improvised and creative music

Same lineup as September 22nd and 23rd

 

 club Močvara Zagreb, Croatia
22.09.2026 IMPRONEDJELJAK / IMPROMONDAY 6 International festival of free improvised and creative music

MATEJ DERONJIĆ (HR) – grand piano
ISABELLE DUTHOIT (FR) – vocals, clarinet
JOHN EDWARDS (UK) – double bass
STEPHEN GAUCI (US) – tenor sax
FRANK GRATKOWSKI (DE) – woodwinds
IVAN HAUBRIH (HR) – saxes
DAMIR P. KAFKA (HR) – soprano sax, piano, violin
ZLATKO KAUČIČ (SI) – drums, percussions
LIZ KOSACK (US/DE) – synthesizer, keyboards
TRACY LISK (US/PT) – drums
MARIA DO MAR (PT) – violin
JORDINA MILLÀ (ES/AT) – prepared piano
IVO PERELMAN (US) – tenor sax
HARRI SJÖSTRÖM (FI) – soprano, sopranino sax
NATE WOOLEY (US) – trumpet

In various smaller formations

 

 club Močvara Zagreb, Croatia
23.09.2026 IMPRONEDJELJAK / IMPROMONDAY 6 International festival of free improvised and creative music

MATEJ DERONJIĆ (HR) – grand piano
ISABELLE DUTHOIT (FR) – vocals, clarinet
JOHN EDWARDS (UK) – double bass
STEPHEN GAUCI (US) – tenor sax
FRANK GRATKOWSKI (DE) – woodwinds
IVAN HAUBRIH (HR) – saxes
DAMIR P. KAFKA (HR) – soprano sax, piano, violin
ZLATKO KAUČIČ (SI) – drums, percussions
LIZ KOSACK (US/DE) – synthesizer, keyboards
TRACY LISK (US/PT) – drums
MARIA DO MAR (PT) – violin
JORDINA MILLÀ (ES/AT) – prepared piano
IVO PERELMAN (US) – tenor sax
HARRI SJÖSTRÖM (FI) – soprano, sopranino sax
NATE WOOLEY (US) – trumpet
In various smaller formations plus
APEIRON (HR) – Zagreb collective for free improvised and creative music conducted by Frank Gratkowski

 

 

 club Močvara Zagreb, Croatia
25.09.2026 Orgel plus Festival
19:30

Willi Kellers – Schlagwerk, Gongs, vocals & Chorleitung Singekreis der Biestower Kirchengemeinde
Clemens Christian Poetzsch – piano
Wolfgang Schmiedt – Gitarre, Flügelhorn: 
Frank Gratkowski – Sax, Flotę, Klarinetten
Bela Fürst – Orgel

 Dorfkirche Biestow Am Dorfteich 13a, Rostock, DE
03.10.2026 In Cahoots feat. Ingrid Laubrock
TBA Wiesbaden, DE
04.10.2026 In Cahoots feat. Ingrid Laubrock
18:30

The concert starts at 18:30 !!!

 Loft Wissmannstr. 30, Köln, DE
05.10.2026 In Cahoots feat. Ingrid Laubrock
20:30
Porgy & Bess Riemergasse 11, A-101 Wien, Austria
06.10.2026 In Cahoots feat. Ingrid Laubrock
20:00
tube´s Grieskai 74a, 8020 Graz, Austria
07.10.2026 In Cahoots feat. Ingrid Laubrock
Jazz Goes To Town Festival Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
12.10.2026 Duo with Ryoko Ono
20:00

Frank Gratkowski – woodwinds
Ryoko Ono – alto sax

 Kühlspot Social Club Lehderstraße 74-79, 13086 Berlin, DE
16.10.2026 Georg Graewe 70
20:00

With Georg Graewe (piano) and many others …

 Loft Wissmannstr. 30, Köln, DE
25.10.2026 Rose | Bauer | Gratkowski | Kneer Heather
15:30

John Rose – violin
Conny Bauer – trombone
Frank Gratkowski – woodwinds
Meinrad Kneer – double bass
Steve Heather – drums

 Industriesalon Reinbeckstr. 9, 12459 Berlin-Schöneweide, DE
28.10.2026 In Cahoots
20:00

Frank Gratkowski – woodwinds, composition
Philip Zoubek – piano, synthesizer 
Robert Landfermann – bass
Dominik Mahnig – drums

 47. Konstanzer JAZZHERBST @ Kulturzentrum am Münster, Wolkensteinsaal Wessenbergstr. 43, 78462 Konstanz, DE
07.11.2026 with Baby Sommer’s Brother & Sisterhood
TBA Nordhausen, DE
13.11.2026 with Baby Sommer’s Brother & Sisterhood
TBA Kassel, DE
20.11.2026 Gratkowski / Uchihashi Duo

Frank Gratkowski – woodwinds
Kazuhisa Uchihachi – guitar and daxophone

 Tonhalle Hannover, DE
07.12.2026 Gratkowski | Hughes | Popple
20:00

Frank Gratkowski: alto sax, bass clarinet, clarinet composition
John Hughes: double bass, composition
Chad Popple: drums

 Hafenbahnhof Große Elbstr. 276, 22767 Hamburg, DE
08.12.2026 SOMETHING TO LIVE FOR – Kuljić | Gratkowski | Kaufmann play Ellington and Strayhorn
20:00

Jelena Kujic – Stimme
Achim Kaufmann – Piano
Frank Gratkowski – Woodwinds

 Loft Wissmannstr. 30, 50823 Köln, DE
17.12.2026 Gerry Hemingway 4

Izumi Kimura (piano),
Frank Gratkowski (reeds),
Christian Weber (bass),
Gerry Hemingway (drums)

 Neubad Bireggstrasse 36, 6003 Luzern, Switzerland
20.12.2026 w/ Meinrad Kneer’s Phosphoros Ensemble
15:30

Meinrad Kneer – comp. , bass
Angela Postweiler, – voice
Uli Pleßmann, – voice
Frank Gratkowski – clarinets
Ulrike Brand– cello

 Industriesalon Schöneweide Reinbeckstraße 10, Berlin, DE