Monday 26 October 2026, 7.30pm
Lisa Ullén / piano
Elsa Bergman / double bass
Anna Lund / drums
SPACE combines raw power with exquisite attention to detail. The improvising piano trio from Stockholm channel the American free jazz tradition and contemporary classical music. Lisa Ullén, Elsa Bergman and Anna Lund make every moment sparkle with possibilities, where every movement matters.
On 26 October they return to Café Oto to celebrate the release of London Concert, the live record of their first London Café Oto appearance. Released on LP and digital, on Sweden’s Fönstret label 9 October.
"The release of energy is hair-raising as three voices collide in free jazz maelstrom. Utterly brilliant…” – Free Jazz Collective
Lisa Ullén is a pianist and composer, born in Seoul, Korea, raised in the north part of Sweden. She has fronted her own quartet, since the mid 1990s, and to date has released over 30 albums. She studied at the Royal Musical Academy Stockholm, and conducted further studies in jazz at Chapel Hill North Carolina USA, EAM at the electronic music studio EMS in Stockholm and the Royal Institute of Art. She has been working for many years in the field of improvisation, free jazz and contemporary art music. Ullén tours internationally, solo as well in different groups, including for many years, with Bergman and Lund, in Anna Högberg’s Attack.
Elsa Bergman was born in Täby, north of Stockholm in 1989. She studied double bass in Trondheim, Norway at Sund Folkehøgskole and later the Music Conservatory Jazz department. Since moving back to Stockholm in 2012 she has been playing in a range of groups in the field of free jazz and improvisation including Fire! Orchestra. She released her solo debut A on her own label in 2021.
Anna Lund, based in Stockholm Sweden, is a freelance drummer who works in several different free jazz, improvisation and pop-constellations.
