Pascal Niggenkemper

bassist - composer


Described by the New York City Jazz Records as "one of the most adventurous bassists on the scene” and by the Chicago Reader “genius for sound exploration” Franco-German bassist and composer Pascal Niggenkemper creates music bluring the lines between improvised, pure sound, and experimental music with a distinct musical language.

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15 april 2023, 8:30pm     PANG ! @ Constellation ,Chicago
16 april 2023, 2:30pm     PANG ! @ Pro Musica & 8pm PANG! Hungry Brain, Chicago
19 april 2023, 9pm           Duo w/Ben LaMar Gay @ The Wistler, Chicago
20 april 2023, 7pm         PANG ! @ Logon Arts Center, Chicago

21 april 2023, 8:30pm
w/ Anton Hatwich + Jason Roebke + Katie Ernst + Lia Kohl + Katinka Kleijn
@ Doug Fogelson Studio, Chicago

22 april 2023, 2pm duo w/ Ben LaMAr Gay @ Corbett VS Dempsey, Chicago
22 april 2023, 8pm PANG ! North Street Cabaret, Madison
23 april 2023 7pm PANG !  Woodland Pattern Milwaukee
24 april 2023 PANG ! @ Elastic Arts, Chicago
25 april 2023, 7pm PANG ! @ The Promontory, Chicago
26 april 2023 5pm @ house Show, Chicago
27 april 2023 PANG ! w/ John Irabagon @ Elastic Arts, Chicago
29 april 2023 7:30pm PANG ! @ Iowa City
1 May 2023 PANG ! @ Baltimore
2 May 2023 PANG ! @ Washington DC

12 mai 2023 de_talhs à la Menuiserie @ Rodez (FR)

les champignons du futur
8 au 12 juin tournée Drôme
15 au 18 juin tournée Aveyron

15 april 2023, 8:30pm     PANG ! @ Constellation ,Chicago
16 april 2023, 2:30pm   PANG ! @ Pro Musica & 8pm PANG! Hungry Brain, Chicago
19 april 2023, 9pm         Duo w/Ben LaMar Gay @ The Wistler, Chicago
20 april 2023, 7pm         PANG ! @ Logon Arts Center, Chicago

21 april 2023, 8:30pm
w/ Anton Hatwich + Jason Roebke + Katie Ernst + Lia Kohl + Katinka Kleijn
@ Doug Fogelson Studio, Chicago

22 april 2023, 2pm duo w/ Ben LaMAr Gay @ Corbett VS Dempsey, Chicago
22 april 2023, 8pm PANG ! North Street Cabaret, Madison
23 april 2023 7pm PANG !  Woodland Pattern Milwaukee
24 april 2023 PANG ! @ Elastic Arts, Chicago
25 april 2023, 7pm PANG ! @ The Promontory, Chicago
26 april 2023 5pm @ house Show, Chicago
27 april 2023 PANG ! w/ John Irabagon @ Elastic Arts, Chicago
29 april 2023 7:30pm PANG ! @ Iowa City
1 May 2023 PANG ! @ Baltimore
2 May 2023 PANG ! @ Washington DC

12 mai 2023 de_talhs à la Menuiserie @ Rodez (FR)

les champignons du futur
8 au 12 juin tournée Drôme
15 au 18 juin tournée Aveyron

March 7-18 : Larry Ochs’s Fictive Five EU-Tour
April 11: SOLO & DUO w/ Ninh Le Quan @ Hangar, Toulouse, FR

Festival SUBRAN - rencontres à RODEZ - musiques aventureuses
April 12, 18h30 @ Galerie Foch
vernissage : ‘la vallée de l’étrange’ - installation sonore

April 19th,  ‘cabinet de curiosités’ @ Musée Fenaille, Rodez, FR

April 20,  le 7ème continent’ ‘vues de Rodez’ @ Médiathèque, Rodez, FR

April 20,’le 7ème continent’ invite les Voix en Rhizome:  ‘la flors enversa’
@ la Menuiserie, Rodez, FR

April 21, ‘je ne sacrifie jamais la beauté si ce n’est de l’ordre de l’aventure’
@ Musée Soulages, Rodez, FR

*France Musique recording

April 21, 20h30
'le 7ème continent’ ‘∄ planète B’ @ la Menuiserie, Rodez, FR
*France Musique recording

May 19: SOLO @ DOM 25th anniversary , Moscow, RUS
May 20: Trio Amado, Niggenkemper, Zerang
@ DOM 20th anniversary, Moscow, RUS

June 29: Cobonore & Polymeer w/ Marianne Vogt @ Kulturnacht Worms, DE

June 30: Coudoux, Kimmig, Niggenkemper, Zoubek @Strizzi, Cologne, DE

July 9: DUO w/ Wade Matthews, Espacio B, Madrid, ES

August 17, 18h w/ René Duarand, La Galerie, Rodez, FR

September 28, 18h: ‘la vallée de l’étrange’@La Galerie, Rodez, FR

October 5: ‘la vallée de l’étrange’@la station, Paris, FR

October 10: ‘la vallée de l’étrange’ @Dortmund, DE

October 11: duo w/ Emilio Gordoa  Moers, DE

October 12: ‘la vallée de l’étrange’ @currents X festival, Cologne, DE

SOLO ‘UNCANNY VALLEY’-‘la vallée de l’étrange’ US-TOUR

October 13, JACK, Brooklyn, NYC

October 16, Rhizome, Washington, DC

October 17, Richmond, VA

October 18, Huntington, WV

October 19, Outside the Spotlight series, Lexington, KY

October 20, Constellation, Chicago, IL

October 21, Alliance Francaise, Toledo, OH

October 22, New Ghosts Series, Cleveland, OH

October 23, Full Pint Wild Side, Pittsburgh, PA


October 26, Free Songs, Juliette Kapla, voix et Claire Bellamy, contrebasse invite PN
@ LES ÉTOURNEAUX JASENT À JUPILLES, FR

November 27, Scott Fields Mojave @ Bonn, DE

November 28, Scott Fields Mojave @ Cologne, DE

2020

Jan 17, beat the odds @ Mullbau, Luzern, CH
Jan 18, beat the odds @ zwei Tage Zeit Festival, Zurich, CH
Feb 1, Blume, Butcher, Studer, PN @ Bau4, CH

2017

January 9-13:
beat the odds residency at GMEA - Centre de Création Musicale d'Albi, France

‘le 7ème contient’ EU CD-release tour
February 16: MHH, Paris, France
February 17: Aufsturz, Berlin, Germany
February 18: studioboerne45, Berlin, Germany
February 19: Konzertkirken, Vinterjazz Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark

March 13: SOLO @ IBeam, Brooklyn, NY, USA
March 16: SOLO @ Elastic, Chicago, IL, USA

March 17: SOLO @ La Vitrola, Casa del Popolo, Montreal, Canada

May 20: Wandelkonzert, Wuppertal, Germany

May 27: w/ Carlo Costa Happylucky No. 1, Bklyn, NY, USA

May 28: Miner’s pick @ Legion, Bklyn, NY, USA

May 29: Black Host @ Vision Festival, NYC, USA

June: 9: Miner’s pick @ Peitz Festival, Germany


June 10-14: SOLO & DUO w/ Stephanos Chytiris @ Greece

June 16: beat the odds @ Stadtgarten, Cologne, Germany


June 19-23: baloni residency @ Chez Lily, Germ, France


June 22: Celtic, Tarbes, France
June 23: Chez Lily, Germ, France
June 24: soirée main mouche, Toulouse, France
June 25: la menuiserie, Rodez, France

July 2: SOLO @ Festival Bruisme, Poitiers, France

July 7: SOLO @ Kongsberg Jazz Festival,  Norway

August 4: SOLO @ Jazz em Agosto, Lisbon, Portugal


August 4: Larry Ochs fictive five @ Jazz em Agosto, Lisbon, Portugal

August 16: SOLO @ Blow Out Festival, Oslo, Norway

BASSDA - ARTIST IN RESIDENCE @ ORT,  Wuppertal, Germany


Tuesday, September 19 @ ORT

OPENING CONCERT
- solo: music for motors, objects & bass
- duo w/ Liz Kosack – synth & masks

Thursday, September 21 @ ORT
trio w/ Philip Zoubek - piano & Etienne Nillesen - percussion

Tuesday, September 26 @ ORT
duo w/ Toma Gouband - percussion


Wednesday, September 27: Zoubek/Lytton/PN @ Loft, Cologne

Thursday, September 28  @ ORT

poetry, drawings, music
w/ Steve Dalachinsky & Yuko Otomo & Jorgo Schäfer


Saturday, September 30 @ LOCH
w/ Ossenbeck 4tet & Milton Camillo - dance


Monday, October 2 @ ORT
w/ East-West Trio


Tuesday, October 3 @ ORt
trio w/ Gunda Gottschalk & Ute Völker

Thursday, October 5, 2017 @ ORT
"Sideworks Stories" by Charles Lane (New York 1990)
live music: PN (Bass solo)

Saturday, October 7 @ ORT
CLOSING/FINAL CONCERT
duo w/ John Butcher


Sunday, October 8 @ Loft, Colgone
duo w/ John Butcher

November 7 & 8: ‘le 7ème contient’ @ Alternativa Festival, Prague

‘from wolves to whales’
Wooley/Rempis/Niggenkemper/Corsano
Nov 10: Maufaktur, Schrondorf, DE
12: de Ruimte, Amsterdam, NL
13: Fri rom, Trondheim, NO
14: Pletterij, Haarlem, NL
15: Sound in Motion, Antwerp, BE
16: Martinschlössl, Vienna, AU
17: Alte Gerberei, St Johann, AU
18: W71, Weikersheim, DE


2018
Jan 8: w/ Wade Matthews @ Cruce, Madrid, ES
Jan 24: masterclass @ Cologne Conservatory

beat the odds Tour
Jan 27: Kreuzung Sankt Helena, Bonn, DE
Jan 28: ev. Citykirche, Wuppertal, DE
Feb 1: aux 26 chaises, Paris, FR
Feb 3: offene Ohren, Munich, DE

March 12th: DUO w/ Nate Wooley @ aux 26 chaises, Paris, FR
March 13th: DUO w/ Nate Wooley @ Loft, Köln, DE

March 15th: w/ Belorukov & Wooley @ St Petersbourg, RUS

March 16-23: Harris Eisenstadt Canada Day EU-Tour
March 24: SOLO @ Sound Disobedience, Ljubljana, SL

April 13-28: Basement Research DE Tou

May 30: Solberg/McPhee/PN @ Spectrum, Bklyn, USA

June 1st: PascAli @ Spectrum, Bklyn, USA
June 2: baloni @ Zorba, Paris, FR
June 3: baloni @ Les arts à Gahard, FR
July 6: Solberg/Hvizdalek/McPhee/Butcher/PN @ Saeringfest, NO
July 7: SOLO @ KeK Lo, Berlin, DE
July 29, 16h30: Charles/Forge/PN @ lutherie urbaine, Paris, FR
August 20-24: workshop météo Festival, Mulhouse, FR
August 23: SOLO @ météo Festival, Mulhouse, FR

September 14-21 beat the odds EU-Tour

Sept 14: Aufsturz, Berlin, DE
Sept 15: Alte Gerberei, St Johann, AT
Sept 16: kék ló, Budapest, HU
Sept 17: ck13, Novi Sad, SRB
Sept 18: Mocvara, Zagreb, HR
Sept 19: Klub Gromka, Ljubljana, SL
Sept 21: WIM, Zurich, CH

Nov 28: SOLO @ Newadits Festival, Klagenfurt, AT

Dec 1: w/ Pultz Melbye & Stempkowski@ Newadits Festival, Klagenfurt, AT

Dec 9: SOLO @ soliloquios, Porto, PT

beat the odds Portugal TOUR
Dec 14: Sonoscopia, Porto, PT
Dec 15: Sonoscopia, Porto, PT
Dec 16: Caldas da Raihna, PT
Dec 18: SMUP, Parede, PT