Pudláková/Flaig/Meissner

Saturday, September 27, 2025, 8 p.m.
Kubiz Raoul Wallenberg, Bernkasteler Str. 78, 13088 Berlin
Entry 15/12 euros


Púdlakova/Flaig/Meissner

Klára Púdlakóva - bass
Erik Wie Flaig - drums
Vincent Meissner - piano


In July 2024, the three musicians Klára Pudláková (double bass), Erik Wie Flaig (drums) and Vincent Meissner (piano) met for the first time as part of the International Jazz Platform in Łódź (Poland) - a five-day festival Workshop for young musicians from all over Europe in the field of jazz and improvised music. The intensive musical exchange and playing together in the workshop ensembles gave rise to the idea of ​​organizing a tour through Germany as a trio for the coming year. The band members' current life and work centers are in Prague, Trondheim and Leipzig. In this newly founded project, they bring together their different musical influences and individual forms of expression and thus create a dynamic, multi-layered sound world. Their music is created both freely in the moment and based on a repertoire of contemporary jazz arrangements and original compositions by all three members.


Klára Pudláková is a jazz double bassist and composer from Prague. Their main project is the string ensemble MAOMAH (Music Army Of Mystery And Love), which released their debut album Platoon of Love. With the band Uthando, which she founded in 2019, she devotes herself to experimental jazz and free improvisation. Together with the singer Anežka Matoušková, she developed her own folk-jazz world as part of a lifelong collaboration. Together with her brother, she explores the connection between contemporary classical music and traditional jazz in the band Pudlax. Her music can be heard on the following albums, among others: Platoon of Love (MAOMAH, 2024), 11mg (Pudlax, 2024), Za kousek něhy (Avokaduo, 2020), Zmatená Zmatená (Avokaduo, 2022), Enter the Avoid (Molotow Moloch, 2018), Uthando (Uthando, 2021), Nenutits (Uthando, 2022). At the Krokus Jazz Youth Competition 2021 she received a special prize for her performance with the trio Henya and Uthando.


Erik Wie Flaig is a 21-year-old jazz drummer from Norway, born in Rottweil (Germany). He is currently studying at the NTNU Jazz Institute in Trondheim. With a background in classical percussion, Erik approaches the drums with a mix of technical precision and free improvisation. He has already had the opportunity to play in a wide variety of ensembles and has gained experience in both traditional jazz contexts and experimental projects.


Vincent Meissner, born in 2000, is a pianist and composer from Germany. Growing up in a small village in central Saxony, he discovered his instrument early on and found his passion in jazz, which he made his life's goal. At the age of 16, he moved to Dresden to attend the Saxon State High School for Music, where he further deepened his enthusiasm through constant discoveries. His influences developed from Andrew Hill, Geri Allen and Marilyn Crispell to Craig Taborn, Vijay Iyer, Kris Davis as well as German jazz pianists such as Pablo Held, Achim Kaufmann and Joachim Kühn. For Vincent, the journey was the destination – and it remains that way to this day. He remains a seeker and discoverer, also in the field of contemporary piano music. Since 2019 he has been studying at the University of Music and Theater in Leipzig with Michael Wollny and Frank Chastenier and currently lives and works in Leipzig. With his trio - consisting of Henri Reichmann (drums) and Josef Zeimetz - he has performed in renowned clubs and festivals throughout Europe over the last five years. The third studio album Eigengrau will be released on the renowned label ACT in July 2025.

Text: Meissner/Púdlákova/Flaig