Monthly explorative music series mixing up improv sessions and contemporary classical.
Anything is possible!
Every 2nd Tuesday of the month
Curated by Gen Kuner
This Tuesday features sets from Coco Browne & Jorik Bergman
Coco Browne is an emerging pianist specialising in free and textural jazz. Born and raised in Naarm, Coco brings a fresh taste to the Australian jazz scene as she strives to retain a strong sense of individuality within her work while drawing on her love of artists such as Andrea Keller, Helen Svoboda and Vijay Iyer.
With her quintet she brings a world of meditative forward motion within a textural freedom, creating an expansive framework to explore with her ensemble.
Keira Murugasu - vocals
Elly Blackham - tenor sax
Coco Browne - piano
Calum Wakeling - double bass
Alex Siderov - drums
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Jorik Bergman was born on August 5, 1996, in Leiden, Netherlands. She completed her Bachelor's degree in Composition at the Maastricht Conservatory in 2020 and her Master's degree in Composition at the Cologne University of Music in 2023.
She works as a jazz flutist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, and leads her own big band, Jorik Bergman and her large, imaginary big band constellation, as well as the Jorik Bergman Trio, the duo Jocra Likra with Clara Vetter, and numerous other projects. In August 2025, she debuted a new quintet project, Take Me to Space, featuring well-known musicians such as Louise van den Heuvel and Teis Semey.
In 2024, she arranged the string arrangement for “African Sunset,” the opening track of the debut album New Dawn by longtime Sun Ra Arkestra member Marshall Allen. In 2025, she collaborated with Marshall Allen and other members of the Sun Ra Arkestra for the album release show at Roulette in New York.
Bergman has performed concerts with her own bands at prestigious venues, including a big band concert at the Cologne Philharmonic Hall as part of the Acht Brücken Festival, a two-day residency at Café Oto in London with her Julius Eastman Project, and performances at renowned venues such as Stadtgarten (Cologne), Schwere Reiter (Munich), Bimhuis (Amsterdam), and Neimenster (Luxembourg).
In recent years, she has received numerous awards. She won first prize at the 2022 composition competition “Das Zerbrechliche Paradies” of the JJO NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia Youth Jazz Orchestra); was a winner of the 2021 European Composers competition of the Subway Jazz Orchestra; and received prizes in the 2022 Future Music composition competition of the Bundesjazzorchester and the 2023 Académie de Composition Jazz of the ONJ (Orchestre National de Jazz) in Paris. She also won the Audience Prize at the Jazz Comp 2024 composition competition in Graz, Austria. In 2025, she received the prestigious Horst und Gretl Will Stipendium, also known as the Jazzpreis der Stadt Köln. Since September 2024, she has been an official NICA artist.
As a flutist, she has performed at major festivals including the Acht Brücken Festival, Weekend Festival, Peng Festival, Cologne Jazz Week, Stadtgarten Winterjazz, Nijmegen International Music Meeting Festival, Reset Festival (Luxembourg), and the North Sea Jazz Festival. She has performed with renowned artists such as Charles Tolliver, Joyce Moreno, Pablo Held, Becca Stevens, and Natalie Greffel. As a sidewoman, she plays flute in Felix Hauptmann’s Serpentine, Luca Müller’s Lucaxixi, and many other projects.
For this performance, she will be joined by Timothy Franklin, Andrew Saragossi & Gen Kuner
Music from 8pm // Tickets $15 (or pay what you can at the door - cash only).