Tristan Honsinger

Born in New England, cellist Tristan Honsinger studied at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. By the '70s, the Trans-American had moved to Amsterdam and formed the Instant Composers Pool with drummer Han Bennink and radical pianist Misha Mengelberg. With this avant-jazz group, his music transcended his classical conservatory background and he began to incorporate wild, free improvisation, jazz, and European folk music into his canon, not to mention a kinship with Bertolt Brecht theater, which would put an edge on his performances and recordings with experimental strategies,...