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simon nabatov duo

Matthias Schubert and Simon Nabatov look back at 30-plus years of musical collaboration, be it Matthias Schubert Quartet or various projects of Simon Nabatov.

This duo brings together two distinctive voices in contemporary improvised music. Their collaboration moves fluidly between composed structures and open improvisation, shaped by decades of international performance experience and a shared commitment to risk, precision, and deep listening.

Schubert’s richly detailed saxophone language — spanning subtle microtonal inflections to raw expressive intensity — meets Nabatov’s expansive pianistic vocabulary, where jazz, new music, and structural experimentation intersect. The duo focuses on form, interaction, and the unfolding architecture of sound in real time.