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TEMPERATURA
May 17 @ 20:00 – 23:00
Free Improvisation
w/Giuseppe Doronzo, Katerina Orfanoudaki, Nina Hitz, Jasna Veličković, Fani Konstantinidou, + food by Judith Baten
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
20:30 – Dinner from 18:30
Tickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 / +Dinner p.p. €15* – available at the door or online
*Reservation is recommended – please reserve by purchasing online.
On Saturday 17 May, come to GROND for our first Temperatura music event. The GROND members and live electronics performers Jasna Veličković and Fani Konstantinidou improvise with the harpsichord player Katerina Orfanoudaki, the cello player Nina Hitz, and the baritone saxophone player Giuseppe Doronzo. A free improvisation evening where the five artists are coming together for the first time.
The same evening, Judith Baten is improvising in the kitchen and preparing vegan/vegetarian dinner!
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About the Artists
Katerina Orfanoudaki is a harpsichordist and performer whose work bridges early music traditions with contemporary and experimental practices. She studied Harpsichord Performance at the Ionian University under Katerina Michopoulou and continued her specialization in Contemporary Harpsichord at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Goska Isphording, Menno van Delft, and Kris Verhelst. She has also pursued studies in Music Cognition at the University of Amsterdam.
Her projects often explore unconventional instrumentations and transdisciplinary collaborations. She is a founding member of ensembles including Duo Suzanne (with flutist Teresa Costa), Sine Sole Sileo (with vocalist Irene Soroźabal Moreno), and experimental duos combining harpsichord with saxophonist Nicki Kokolakis, double bassist Ignacio Pintó, and electronics.
Her artistic work includes original compositions and performative soundscape interventions, as seen in projects like “Formed by the Gaze, Twisted by the Beast”, “Galatea” co-created together with Vera Morais and “Relocations: Polyphony and Identity.” With a deep interest in historically informed performance, new music, free improvisation and cross-genre creation, Katerina continually seeks to expand the expressive possibilities of the harpsichord in today’s musical landscape.
Nina Hitz is a cellist living in the Netherlands, originally trained in early music but drawn to the fringes of sound. A former member of The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble and The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation, she has collaborated with dancers, actors, musicians, and performance artists in both the Netherlands and Switzerland, creating works that ranged from tightly structured compositions to more fluid, atmospheric, and unpredictable forms.
Her work explores sound as a parallel to life — layered, unstable, and full of contradiction. She is fascinated by inconsistency, embracing the imperfect and the ephemeral. Whether through structured improvisation or intuitive noise, she seeks resonance in all forms, sizes, and silences.
Giuseppe Doronzo is an Italian multi-reed player, composer and performer based in Amsterdam. He focuses his research on the baritone saxophone, where he expands a vocabulary at the intersection of contemporary music, jazz improvisation and non-western music. His musical quest merges composed and improvised music with ancient Mediterranean cultures and rituals. In his recent performances, he introduces instruments discovered during his travels, like the ney-anban (Iranian bagpipe), hulusi (Chinese gourd reed instrument), longari (Albanian double flute), and mizmar (Egyptian reed instrument), that made a profound emotional and sonic impact on him. He also collaborates with choreographers and film makers.
In 2022 has received the BUMA Award for his film music and in 2024 the Musician of the Year Award from Polish Jazz Press Magazine. He leads AVA Trio and has worked with creative artists covering various fields of the national and international art including: Michael Moore, Joe Lovano, Mariem Hassan, Han Bennink, NDR Big Band, João Bosco, Taylor Ho Bynum, Irene Aebi Lacy, Jim Black, Matt Wilson.
Jasna Veličković is a Belgrade-born composer and performer based in Amsterdam. Her artistic output has been developed through an interaction between a life-long fascination with the sound, an enduring interest in an intricate encounter between music and technology, and an inclination toward experimentation.
Fani Konstantinidou is a composer, performer, and music researcher based in Amsterdam. She expresses her musical ideas in various formats such as site-specific and multichannel compositions, improvisation, and through collaborative projects with artists of various disciplines. Within these contexts, she performs live-electronics and composes music for solo instruments and small ensembles.
