Sara Decker Quartet · poetryfied

poetryfied.

Press and booking material for Sara’s poetry programme.

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poetryfied · 2020

Poems become songs.

For poetryfied, Sara Decker sets poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Emily Dickinson, Mascha Kaléko and Jane Tyson Clement to her own music. Her compositions hold the words close while opening them up to jazz improvisation. The album, released by AMC Records in 2020, was recorded with her Cologne-based quartet.

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Press photos

Press portrait of Sara Decker — Sara Decker · portrait
Photo: Pierre Hansen
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Sara Decker with Billy Test, Nicolai Amrehn and Jeroen Truyen — Sara Decker Quartet · album line-up
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Available for editorial coverage and promotion of Sara Decker’s concerts. Credit every use with “Photo: Pierre Hansen”. The quartet photo depicts the album line-up; please enquire about images for the current live line-up.

Concert copy

Concert announcement

Sara Decker Quartet — poetryfied

Poems become songs in poetryfied, a programme by jazz vocalist and composer Sara Decker. She sets texts by Rainer Maria Rilke, Emily Dickinson, Mascha Kaléko and Jane Tyson Clement to original music that leaves space for the words, improvisation and dialogue. Sara’s voice is joined by a quartet of piano, double bass and drums. For live bookings, Sara performs the programme with her quartet; the musicians for each concert are confirmed individually.

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Short listing

Sara Decker Quartet – poetryfied: original music for poems by Rilke, Dickinson, Kaléko and Clement. Sara’s voice meets a flexible jazz quartet with piano, double bass and drums. An intimate concert programme open to improvisation and available for booking.

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Line-up & booking

On the album

Sara Decker · voice, composition / Billy Test · piano / Nicolai Amrehn · double bass / Jeroen Truyen · drums. Guests: Heidi Bayer, Stefan Karl Schmid and Julia Kriegsmann. Editing: Jeroen Truyen. Mixing and mastering: Christian Heck.

On stage

poetryfied is Sara’s music for voice and a jazz quartet. Sara performs the programme live with her quartet. Billy Test played piano on the album; Jonathan Hofmeister may, for example, join live performances on piano. Other personnel configurations are also possible. Please confirm the exact line-up with booking before announcing names or printing posters.

Suggested billing: “Sara Decker Quartet — poetryfied”. List individual musicians only once confirmed.

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Booking & more images

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Updated September 2026