Concert Muravoi Travoi

KOOB

Celebrated in her home country of Belarus as "Soul Princess", KOOB oscillates between jazz, avant-garde and soul, blending her musical style into an individual mix that simultaneously caresses, disturbs and amazes the listener. 

KOOB, which has won prizes in numerous jazz competitions, will present its current programme Muravoi Travoi on the opening evening of the Belarus Festival.
   

Musicians:

KOOB (vocals) appeared on the public radar in her homeland Belarus, as the frontwoman of the first ever Belarusian soul band Dee Tree. Two years later KOOB entered her solo-path with a remarkable debut single Jungle. In 2020 her musical and personal life reached a turning point: the biggest political crisis so far broke out in Belarus, which caused her to move to Berlin. Right now she is studying Jazz Singing at the Jazz Institute of Berlin. She appeared on Deutsche Welle, magz.fm, Euroradio and other TV and radio channels.  
 
Lenny Rehm (drums) is a German jazz drummer. Growing up in a small Bavarian town, he already gained experience in his youth through the interaction with Joo Kraus and Hubert Nuss and in the Bavarian State Youth Jazz Orchestra. In 2020 he moved to Berlin to study at the Berlin Jazz Institute. Since then he has been active in the Berlin jazz scene, including collaborations with Andreas Schmidt, Jan Roder, Jonas Westergaard, Thomas Heberer, Olaf Casimir, Christian von der Goltz and Martin Klingeberg. He is involved in several albums and radio productions and is active with his projects at home and abroad. In 2017 he was awarded the 1st prize at the Jugend musiziert federal competition in Paderborn. 
 
Seth Sjöström (electric bass) is a bass player and composer from northern Sweden who is currently studying at the Jazz Institute Berlin. With a foundation in jazz, free improvisation and Swedish folk music, he is constantly looking for new ways to express himself and to communicate with others through art. He is very inspired by the rough but honest nature of northern Sweden and is driven by the will to use music as a tool to build a real connection to yourself, other people and the world around it. 
 
Oto Gvardjančič (piano) is a Slovenian pianist, currently based in Berlin. His music education started with the classical piano in his early childhood. His love for music led him after his classical education to the world of jazz, pop and funk music. He studied jazz piano at the Conservatory for Music and Ballet in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He continued his studies at the University of The Arts in Berlin, Germany. He was improving his knowledge in countries across Europe at masterclasses with several important musicians. He has already gathered numerous experiences in various music genres and types of bands across Europe and the USA, including solo-piano, small and medium-sized jazz bands, big bands and funk bands, as well as in a classical symphony orchestra. He plays regularly as a side musician in different jazz and pop bands, leads his project Oto’s Treatment and works as a piano teacher. 
 

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