{"version":1,"state":"ready_for_manual_post","account":"@openearmedia","feature":{"slug":"julia-hulsmann-octet-berlin-2026","title":"Julia Hülsmann changes two voices inside one eight-part frame","pageUrl":"https://jazzdatebook.com/featured-shows/julia-hulsmann-octet-berlin-2026","eventStartDate":"2026-09-13T20:00:00+02:00","updatedAt":"2026-08-27T01:34:55Z"},"caption":"Julia Hülsmann’s Octet is musical arithmetic: a classical piano trio plus a jazz piano trio, sharing one piano, plus three singers. Eight people. Multiple ensembles hidden inside one frame.\n\nThe ECM album While I Was Away fixed that design with Aline Frazão and Susanne Paul. Zig Zag’s current Berlin billing changes both chairs: Marie Séférian enters the vocal group; improvising cellist Julia Biłat enters the string pair. Their own September calendars corroborate the tour dates.\n\nThat changes more than timbre. The album turns Dickinson, Atwood and E. E. Cummings into rhythm, harmony and narration; violin and cello answer voices as independent lines. Berlin tests how much identity lives in those exact recorded colors—and how much lives in Hülsmann’s architecture.\n\nSUN 13 SEP · doors 19:00 · music 20:00\nZIG ZAG JAZZ CLUB · BERLIN\n€25 / €12.50 members · first-come seating\n\nFull story: https://jazzdatebook.com/featured-shows/julia-hulsmann-octet-berlin-2026\n\n@julia_huelsmann @julia_bilat @zigzagjazzclub","hashtags":["#JuliaHuelsmann","#WhileIWasAway","#BerlinJazz","#ECMRecords","#ZigZagJazzClub"],"mentions":[{"role":"piano, composition and arrangements","name":"Julia Hülsmann","handle":"@julia_huelsmann","verifiedBySourceId":"julia-instagram"},{"role":"violoncello","name":"Julia Biłat","handle":"@julia_bilat","verifiedBySourceId":"bilat-instagram"},{"role":"venue","name":"Zig Zag Jazz Club","handle":"@zigzagjazzclub","verifiedBySourceId":"zigzag-instagram"}],"slides":[{"order":1,"url":"https://jazzdatebook.com/featured-shows/julia-hulsmann-octet-berlin-2026/social/01.jpg","alt":"Cover slide with cyan and orange circles: Julia Hülsmann plus Octet. It asks what changes when one singer and one string voice change and identifies Zig Zag Berlin on September 13, 2026.","sha256":"a7e0d2a13a526a77bf6e2e81bb2b34103ecfa2977b9e4df887228ab358a8e92d"},{"order":2,"url":"https://jazzdatebook.com/featured-shows/julia-hulsmann-octet-berlin-2026/social/02.jpg","alt":"Timeline titled A Live Band Before an Album: a 2018 Octet performance with an earlier cellist, the September 2023 Hansa Studio session, ECM’s January 2026 While I Was Away release, and Zig Zag’s September 2026 billing of Marie Séférian and Julia Biłat.","sha256":"1fe8f365c77eb7f13a81680d51f13caede2e30fcfb49f748dbd298a81bc95edd"},{"order":3,"url":"https://jazzdatebook.com/featured-shows/julia-hulsmann-octet-berlin-2026/social/03.jpg","alt":"Berlin Octet details for Sunday, September 13, 2026: doors 19:00 and music 20:00 at Zig Zag Jazz Club, Hauptstraße 89. Current personnel block: Julia Hülsmann, Marie Séférian, Live Maria Roggen, Michael Schiefel, Héloïse Lefebvre, Julia Biłat, Eva Kruse and Eva Klesse. Admission is 25 euros or 12.50 for members, with first-come seating.","sha256":"468c929078927bb20d571756495c1398fc027cd8c6bb1077cd0609ba956c10c0"},{"order":4,"url":"https://jazzdatebook.com/featured-shows/julia-hulsmann-octet-berlin-2026/social/04.jpg","alt":"Verified accounts for Julia Hülsmann, cellist Julia Biłat and Zig Zag Jazz Club. The slide credits original Open Ear Media typography and ensemble-map artwork and states that no artist, album or event photography was reused.","sha256":"03fb2d841c4d061112f0c3151acf6eb801a8369d6c8b4674620bd99a0c5587d3"}],"contactSheetUrl":"https://jazzdatebook.com/featured-shows/julia-hulsmann-octet-berlin-2026/social/contact-sheet.jpg","altText":"Four-slide Open Ear Media carousel about Julia Hülsmann’s Octet in Berlin. It explains the shared classical-trio and jazz-trio architecture, traces the project from a 2018 performance through the 2023 session and 2026 ECM release, identifies Marie Séférian and Julia Biłat as the current vocalist and cello changes, gives the complete September 13 Zig Zag lineup, and ends with verified handles and original-art credits.","automaticPostingAllowed":false}