LIVE AT THE BAR — Avanti x Hanan Hadžajlić

LIVE AT THE BAR is an early evening concert, bringing live music to Post Bar

Bosnian-born composer, flutist, and music producer Hanan Hadžajlić is arriving in Helsinki to perform and make music together with the musicians of Avanti! on the 2nd of September 2026 at Post Bar in Kallio. The concert is a part of the Helsinki Festival, which is held between 18th of August until the 5th of September around the capital city.

Hanan Hadžajlić is a composer, flutist, producer and researcher whose work spans contemporary art music, improvisation and popular music production, with a particular focus on rap and trap. Active on the international contemporary music scene for more than a decade, she has developed long-term collaborations with Ensemble Mosaik, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and ensemble hand werk, among others.

Drawing on experience in classical and contemporary music, free improvisation, and the metal and alternative music scenes, she has cultivated a distinctive artistic practice that moves fluidly between diverse musical languages and aesthetic contexts. Alongside her work as a composer and performer, Hadžajlić is the founder and artistic director of Impro Ensemble MAS, teaches at the Composition Department of the Academy of Music, University of Sarajevo, and works as a producer and beatmaker, creating tracks that have amassed hundreds of millions of streams across the Balkans and beyond.

Hadžajlić holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Flute for her dissertation Flute as a Meta-Interface of Modular Systems in Contemporary Electroacoustic Music and is currently pursuing doctoral research in composition on Models and Procedures in Free Musical Improvisation, a part of which can be seen and heard in this concert. She also studied Transdisciplinary Theory of Arts and Media, and is a co-founder of INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology.

About the concert

Bringing together flute, tape, beatbox, amplified instruments, improvisation and ensemble performance, the concert traces a path through Hanan Hadžajlić’s musical worlds and artistic practice, placing her music in dialogue with selected works by other composers. The program spans contemporary composition, electronic dance music, trap and black metal.

Throughout the evening, existing sounds, voices, bass structures, media fragments and musical idioms are extracted, transformed and recontextualized. The political and symbolic narratives surrounding Hadžajlić’s tape composition Koh-i-Noor set the tone for the program grounded in experimentation, improvisation, amplification, and intensity. The circulation of musical materials across genres and traditions reflect the fluidity and the freedom of the present.

Hanan Hadžajlić – Koh-i-Noor [tape]
Andy Akiho – Stop Speaking [snare drum, digital playback]
Hanan Hadžajlić – Off-the-rack: La Couture Noire
[club concerto for amplified flute, voice, beatbox, and tape]
Fausto Romitelli – Trash TV Trance [e.gtr]
Stefano Scodanibbio – Alisei [double bass]
Asia Ahmetjanova – "es" [double bass]
Hanan Hadžajlić – Black Metal [double bass, e.gtr, drum set, flute]

Arrangör: Post Bar

Åldersgräns: 20+