BrÖtz no.942 Hej Johannes! + WPPW
Schedule
Wed, 28 Jan, 2026 at 07:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Carl-Erik Hammaréns Backe Konstepidemin paviljong 8, 413 14 Gothenburg, Sweden | Gothenburg, VG
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-Musikstuderanden gratis!-HEJ JOHANNES
Johannes Gammelgaard - saxophone
Johannes Berg - drums
WPPW
Jonny Wartel - saxofon
Polina Pohozha - piano
Björn Petersson - bas
Henrik Wartel – trummor
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HEJ JOHANNES is an innovative improv duo focusing on musical conversation. A
responsiveness and an interest in each other’s ideas, which have been developed and
refined since the start of the collaboration in 2014.
The duo consists of Johannes Gammelgaard on saxophone and Johannes Berg on
drums. These two promising young musicians have worked together over the last 11
years in many different constellations and played with names such as Liudas
Mockunas, Jim Black, Haruhiko Okabe and most recently the prominent drums/reeds
duo Kasper Tom/Rudi Mahall. As a result of these experiences, they have developed a
common musical language based on melodic fragments, modal landscapes and
abstract sound experiments.
In the duo format, there is an almost limitless freedom and at the same time a great
responsibility, as the music easily becomes both naked and fragile. It forces the
musicians to constantly be aware and make decisions regarding the form and direction
of the music – a task that the duo takes on with great presence and a deep mutual
trust.
HEJ JOHANNES released their self-titled debut album in January 2020. In February
2025 their second album was released, which is a live recording from Fylkingen in
Stockholm on April 13 2023.
"It is two musicians who know each other well that meet in an honest and open
interplay, which deserves to be heard as good musical storytelling." - Niels Overgård,
Jazznyt 14/4 2020
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WPPW
En ny kvartett som spelar för glatta livet
Polina Pohozha (b. 1997, Odesa, Ukraine) is a pianist, composer, sound artist, and artist
based in Gothenburg, Sweden. After completing her master’s degree at A.V. Nezhdanova
Odesa National Academy of Music, she was forced to move to Sweden due to the full-
scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. There, she began studying musical composition at the
Gotland School of Music Composition.
Her musical practice is currently focused on exploring identity—national, musical, and
deeply psychological—through experimental solo and group free improvisation, musical
composition, and piano performance.
In her free improvisation practice, she works with prepared piano, voice, and objects,
exploring timbre and textures as part of dramaturgy. Her music is an organic flow, a wave,
a spontaneous dialogue between structure and chaos, where classical tradition, folk
echoes, jazz, minimalism, and free improvisation intertwine. She is inspired by visual
imagery, color, and feelings translating these elements into sound.
As a composer, Polina perceives sound through its relationships and connections,
exploring mixtures and musical time while improvising through narrative storytelling that
emerges in the moment of writing.
Her composition teachers include Joseph Lake and Ida Lundén, and she has also received
tutoring and participated in masterclasses with Theresia Ulvo, Farzia Fallah, George Lewis,
Malin Bång, and Oscar Bianchi.
She actively performs solo and as part of various ensembles, such as Kult., VARP., and
Ranges Collective. In February 2024,VARP released their first experimental album, Deal
with Bergman (label RIGHT BRAIN RECORDS), which explores group improvisation and
sound experimentation. During her residency at Casa della Musica San Michele in 2024
(Italy), she recorded two albums with Ranges Collective and Ensemble Collettivo Crisis, as
well as an EP with Clémence Manachère, set for release in 2026. Polina is currently
working on her solo free improvisation/composition album.
Her piece Fireflies for mixed ensemble will be performed at Archipel Festival in April in
Switzerland. In August, she will collaborate with NYKA on her string quartet In The Box.
Polina has participated as a performer and composer at international festivals such as
2days2nights, Dzenzelivka Classical Week, Kontinent Dalsland, Påskfestivalen Gotland,
Ljudvågor, Bergmanveckan, FRST, Festspillene (Klassik Link), and the International Young
Composers Academy Ticino. As a composer, she has collaborated with
Musikkonservatoriet Falun, GotlandsMusiken, Ivo Nilsson, Jörgen Pettersson, Uppsala
Kammarsolister, ICE and others.
She has received grants and scholarships from DBW, Region Gotland, Konstmusiksyster,
and STIM. She was also an artist-in-residence at the Bergman Estate on Fårö at the
Improvisation Residency at Casa della Musica San Michele.
Björn, Henrik och Jonny är välkända musiker inom jazz och frijazzscenen
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