A-TRANE PRESENTS DAY3:
ANTON EGER
SUMMER RESIDENCY 2025
FEAT: EMMA RAWICZ-GWILYM SIMCOCK-JOSH GINSBURG-JOEL LYSSARIDES-MORTEN SCHANZ
TODAY WITH: JOEL LYSSARIDES-JOSH GINSBURG

ANTON EGER
SUMMER RESIDENCY 2025
FEAT: EMMA RAWICZ-GWILYM SIMCOCK-JOSH GINSBURG-JOEL LYSSARIDES-MORTEN SCHANZ
TODAY WITH: JOEL LYSSARIDES-JOSH GINSBURG

Anton Eger
Swedish-Norwegian drummer Anton Eger returns to Berlin’s A-Trane for a five-night residency filled with explosive energy, bold grooves, and genre-blurring improvisation.
Well known to Berlin audiences through his work with Phronesis, JazzKamikaze, HEL Trio, Æ and long-time collaborator Marius Neset, Eger has built a reputation across Europe for his fearless fusion of jazz, rock, electronics, and pure rhythmic invention. His drumming is both precise and wild — always pushing the music somewhere unexpected.
Winner of Best Jazz Musician at the Danish Music Awards and a recipient of a Danish Arts Foundation grant for his acclaimed debut album Æ, Anton Eger is one of Europe’s most inventive and in-demand drummers.
For this residency, Eger brings together a fresh and rotating lineup of handpicked musicians from across the European scene. Each night will be unique, built on deep interplay, high-energy spontaneity, and the thrill of musical risk-taking.

„I’m thrilled to be back at A-Trane this August for a five-night residency. Berlin has always held a special place in my heart — it’s a city that embraces risk and creativity. Across the five nights, I’ll be playing with three different lineups of musicians I truly admire. It’s a chance to dive deep, explore new ideas, and create something raw and exciting together. No two nights will be the same, and that’s exactly the point.”
Anton Eger

Emma Rawicz
Jamie Cullum nennt die britische Saxofonistin Emma Rawicz «Ein beeindruckendes Talent», Jazzwise Magazine «Eine Kraft mit der man rechnen sollte» und die BBC konstatiert: «Der Name Emma Rawicz ist gerade in aller Munde». Die 21-Jährige ist die neueste Entdeckung der lebendigen Londoner Jazz-Szene, die seit Jahren weltweit für Aufsehen sorgt. Und trotz ihres jungen Alters hat sie bereits enorm viel erreicht: Gewinnerin des Parliamentary Jazz Awards, Finalistin bei den Jazz FM Awards und der BBC Young Jazz Musician Competition, Konzerte auf und in allen namhaften britischen Festivals und Clubs, mehrfacher Headliner in Londoner Institutionen wie dem Jazz Café oder dem Ronnie Scott’s und Auftritte auf internationalen Festivals. Heute ist sie wieder im A-Trane.
«Already the real deal»
Jazzwise
«Hugely promising! Emma Rawicz has a fantastic sound»
Marlbank

Gwilym Simcock:
Gwilym  Simcock, a member of the last Pat Metheny Quartet , is a distinguished composer and arranger, and a lecturer at the Royal Music Academy in London. Gwilym is one of the most gifted pianists and imaginative composers on the European scene.  He moves effortlessly between jazz and classical music, with a ‘harmonic sophistication and subtle dovetailing of musical traditions’. Gwilym has been hailed as a pianist of ‘exceptional’, ‘brilliant’ and ‘dazzling’ ability, and his music has been widely acclaimed as ‘engaging, exciting, often unexpected, melodically enthralling, complex yet hugely accessible’, and above all ‘wonderfully optimistic’. He has lived in Berlin for four years.

Joel Lyssarides
In seiner Heimat Schweden gilt Joel Lyssarides als der Piano-Rising-Star der Stunde. Und obwohl sein Name außerhalb Schwedens bislang vor allem Szene- Kennern Begriff sein dürfte, gehören die Aufnahmen des 1992 geborenen Pianisten bereits jetzt zu den meistgehörten des europäischen Jazz: Über 50 Millionen Mal wurden sie in den letzten Jahren allein auf dem Streaming- dienst Spotify aufgerufen. Dahinter steckt kein musikalisches Kalkül, vielmehr folgte Lyssarides stets seiner Intuition. Er sagt: „So sehr wie ich mich auch freue, dass viele Menschen meine Musik offensichtlich sehr mögen und sie immer wieder hören wollen – der Impuls kommt immer aus mir selbst heraus. Ich und mein Piano, das ist Mittelpunkt meiner musikalischen Welt.“
Das ACT Debüt „Stay Now“, Joel Lyssarides drittes Album, ist ein schillerndes, eindringliches Spiegelbild dieser Welt. Und es macht deutlich: Die ist Zeit reif für den Schritt auf die internationale Bühne.

Josh Ginsburg:
Joshua Ginsburgis a regular fixture on the world’s concertstages; his bass playing has been described as a “a rock ofcounterpoint, funk and swing.”Financial Times(London)In the past few years, Joshua has been performinginternationally with bands led by Kurt Rosenwinkel, DavidFriedman, Greg Osby, Jeremy Pelt, E.J. Strickland, GeorgeColligan, Melissa Aldana, Jure Pukl, Logan Richardson,Diego Piñera, Tino Derado, and Aruán Ortiz, among others.Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Josh lived for 20 yearsin Brooklyn, New York, where he performed regularly withcountless influential musicians. He currently resides in Berlin, Germany.

RKDIA:
For the grand finale of Anton Eger’s five-night residency at A-Trane, the stage is taken over by RKDIA – the explosive Scandinavian power duo of Morten Schantz and Anton Eger.
Known for their fearless energy and genre-defying sound, RKDIA brings together two long-time collaborators whose roots trace back to the trailblazing band JazzKamikaze. With over a thousand shows together across the globe, their interplay is razor-sharp, wildly dynamic, and full of joyful chaos.
In 2021, they released their debut album Into RKDIA and have since toured across Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, France, England, Zanzibar, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, and Thailand – and now it’s finally Berlin´s turn.
RKDIA describes their sound as broken disco – an explosive blend of crooked beats, stadium anthem hooks, and electronic euphoria. It’s music that gets your pulse racing and your imagination firing.
Don’t miss this chance to experience one of Scandinavia’s most inventive live acts. A high-voltage close to a week of musical risk-taking – and a night to remember.

Joel Lyssarides – Piano
Josh Ginsburg – Bass
Anton Eger – Drums
Anton Eger Foto©Szymon Ratajczyk