Thomas Berghammer

The Vienna-based trumpeter and event organizer (Monday Improvisers Session) works in the genres of free improvisation, contemporary jazz, and world music. Since his studies in Linz and Graz, he has been exploring the melodic possibilities of various pentatonic and symmetrical scales.
He focuses particularly on exploring innovative, unconventional sounds and harmonic tonal design through the use of trumpet and vocals in combination (solo project “Frames of K”).

His extensive musical activities have led him to collaborations and concerts with Mars Williams, Marco Eneidi, Joe McPhee, Roscoe Mitchell, Georg Gräwe, Oskar Aichinger, Joëlle Leandre, Wolfgang Mitterer, Wolfgang Reisinger, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Peter Herbert, Frank Gratkowski, Tobias Delius, Mamadou Diabate, and ensembles such as Orchester 33 1/3, Grubenklang Orchestra, and many more.

Current ensembles as co-leaders are G.B.K., bzss & pulsinger, Crop Sequences, Unity M. Duo Wang & Berghammer