Ro(b)//ert Lundberg
Steven Lugerner
Lily Finnegan
Ben Willis
We’re excited to host the first public performance of LUF Trio at this week’s Improvised Music Series. The group includes Steven Lugerner on woodwinds, Ro(b)//ert Lundberg on double bass, and Lily Finnegan on drums. Steven is based in the Bay-area of California and has played with countless legends. We’re excited to see this new trio! The night will open with subatlantic songs, the solo performance of improvising musician Ben Willis. Theatrical staging elements, amplified double bass, voice, and various electronic and percussive elements have defined the installments of the performance, which has been ongoing since 2016. This will be a beautiful night. Join us!
8:30PM Ben Willis’ subatlantic songs
Ben Willis - bass, voice, electronics
9:30PM LUF Trio
Steven Lugerner - woodwinds
Ro(b)//ert Lundberg - double bass
Lily Finnegan - drums
$15 / $10 w/ Student IDs - Tickets Available at the Door
Artist Bios
Ben Willis is a bassist, improviser, and composer. He has toured the US and Japan as a member of the bands saajtak, Throwaway, and Lovely Socialite. He has dedicated his practice to collaborative, interdisciplinary work, and spent 7 years in Detroit, creating performance art and experimental theater works, as well as performing improvised and newly composed music. He also creates animation and video art, often collaboration with musicians.
Steven Lugerner is a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in San Francisco. Since 2010, Lugerner has released twelve albums to critical acclaim. The New York Times calls him “an impeccably trained multi-reedist.” The San Francisco Examiner has praised: “Lugerner’s approach to making music is very much his own.” In a relatively short period of time, the 35-year-old Bay Area native has collaborated with a heavyweight roster of jazz masters including, legend pianist Fred Hersch, Grammy award winning pianist Taylor Eigsti, vocalist Lisa Fischer, pioneering pianist Myra Melford; drum legends Albert Tootie Heath, Eric Harland, Matt Wilson, John Hollenbeck and Allison Miller; saxophonists Jane Ira Bloom, Dayna Stephens and Anat Cohen; trumpeter Ralph Alessi, flutist Jamie Baum and bassist Todd Sickafoose. Steven is the Director of Educational & Festival Programming at the Stanford Jazz Workshop and is also the founder of Slow & Steady Records, a non-profit record label dedicated to showcasing west coast creative artists.
Ro(b)//ert Lundberg makes sound and image, thinks about and drinks water. They have performed a wide range of music throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe both solo and with outfits such as JOBS, Skeletons, Nestle, In One Wind, and Leverage Models at venues and festival such as Carnegie Hall, JVC Jazz Festival, Newport Folk Festival, and Big Ears Festival. Their photography, video, and multimedia work often focuses on the interaction of human infrastructure and the spaces it inhabits. They earned a BFA in jazz performance from The New School (New York) and graduate degrees in science studies and environmental art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They currently reside in Zhigaagong / Chicago.
Lily Glick Finnegan is a Chicago born and based drummer, composer, improviser, and organizer. This year she was featured in the Chicago Reader as a “Chicagoan of Note”. She is a member of Ken Vandermark’s ensemble Edition Redux, Thwartet, the Sarah Clausen Trio, and her own self led groups. She has collaborated with artists including gabby fluke-mogul, Ken Vandermark, Shanta Nurullah, Dave Rempis, Macie Stewart, Ben Lamar Gay, Devon Gates, Ed Wilkerson, Lia Kohl, Katinka Kleijn, Fred Jackson, Jason Stein, Christof Kurmann, and Katie Ernst. In 2021 she completed a Master of Music degree at Berklee College of Music. Prior she earned a Bachelor of Arts double major from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in sociology and music. Lily is one of the curators of the Option Series and works for the music cooperative Catalytic Sound. In 2023 she was nominated as one of the Next Jazz Legacy semi finalists.