Thomas Dobler arranged the project alongside the Ayekoo Drummers—founders of a Ghanaian percussion ensemble (est. 2007) with international festival experience—and the HEMU Jazz Orchestra, a flagship ensemble of master’s performance students.
This masterclass and concert examines the meeting of jazz, classical writing, highlife and ancestral West African rhythms. It explores improvisation, contemporary arranging and rhythmic dialogue, revealing how cross-cultural collaboration shapes new compositional forms and performance practices.
