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Nova
Foundation

The cultural body behind Nova Concerts Series. Supporting artistic projects shaped by migration, collaboration, and new musical encounters.

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About Nova
Foundation

Nova Foundation was created to support and develop artistic projects with international, multicultural, and diasporic perspectives.

Based in Copenhagen, the foundation works with professional artists, musicians, producers, designers, filmmakers, and cultural organisations to create projects that connect local audiences with global artistic voices.

Its work grows out of the same vision as Nova Concerts Series: to present music as a living form of encounter, shaped by movement, memory, rhythm, and collaboration.

Mission

Our Mission

Nova Foundation supports artistic work that brings people, cultures, and musical languages into meaningful dialogue.

We support music that carries memory, crosses borders, and creates new forms of belonging.
  • Present original music of high artistic value
  • Develop concerts, recordings, films, talks, and interdisciplinary productions
  • Support artists with diverse cultural backgrounds
  • Create new collaborations across countries and traditions
  • Strengthen Copenhagen as a space for international music

Nova Foundation

Nova Concerts
Series

Nova Concerts Series is the live music platform at the heart of Nova Foundation. It presents concerts where professional musicians from different cultural backgrounds come together to perform original music shaped by movement, memory and encounter.

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A Curated Constellation

Each edition is built as a constellation: a carefully curated grouping of artists whose individual voices, when placed in the same room, produce something that could not have existed otherwise.

What defines Nova Concerts is the relationship between musicians, audience and place. Through each concert, new collaborations are born, new musical languages take shape, and cultural boundaries are crossed without being erased.

Music in Motion

When an artist migrates, they carry more than a passport. They carry sounds, silences, accents, gestures and memories formed elsewhere. In music, that movement becomes audible.

A rhythm born in one street begins to breathe in another city. A melody shaped by one climate finds new ears. It keeps its roots while becoming transformed by the place where it is heard.

Diaspora as Encounter

Music of the diaspora is memory in motion. It carries friction, recognition and encounter. It creates moments where people understand each other without translation.

Nova Concerts exists within that space: where what arrives from elsewhere reshapes what we call here.

The Cultural Act

Each concert becomes a living exchange between artist and audience. The room listens. The city listens. And when the last note settles into silence, something subtle has changed.

That shared shift, quiet, human and collective, is the cultural act Nova Concerts stands for.

Founder

"Nova Concerts exists to create spaces where music shaped by movement, memory and migration can be heard as part of the present. Each concert is a meeting point, between artists, audiences and the city itself."

Abel Alazo Creative Director and Founder, Nova Concerts Series

Nova Cuba Unbound · Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2026

Upcoming
Concerts

Night One — Jay Kalo & New Cuban Jazz Exp Quartet July 7

Night One · Musikcaféen

Jay Kalo & New Cuban
Jazz Exp Quartet

A quartet of Cuban musicians based in Copenhagen and Europe, presenting original compositions rooted in jazz and Afrocuban tradition.

Musicians

Jay Kalo  ·  Aismar Simon Carrillo
Yasser Morejon Pino  ·  Eliel Lazo

Date

Monday, July 7, 2026

Venue

Musikcaféen, HUSET-KBH

Night Two — Eminente All Stars July 11

Night Two · Musikcaféen

Eminente
All Stars

Copenhagen-based Cuban and Danish musicians come together for a night of Latin jazz, salsa, and Afrocuban rhythms. One stage, many traditions, one sound.

Format

Copenhagen-based Cuban and Danish musicians. Full ensemble programme.

Date

Friday, July 11, 2026

Venue

Musikcaféen, HUSET-KBH

Productions

Current and
Future Projects

Active · 2026

Nova Cuba
Unbound

Two nights of Cuban music in motion at Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2026. Two distinct programmes, united by the idea that Cuban jazz in 2026 belongs to the diaspora as much as to the island.

Venue

Musikcaféen, HUSET

Dates

July 7 & 11, 2026

Night One · July 7

Jay Kalo & New Cuban Jazz Exp Quartet. Jay Kalo, Aismar Simon Carrillo, Yasser Morejon Pino, Eliel Lazo.

Night Two · July 11

Eminente All Stars. Copenhagen-based Cuban and Danish musicians.

In development · 2026

Nova Diasporas

An international jazz project connecting Afro-Cuban, Latin jazz, and Nordic compositional traditions. The first creative meeting between Iván Melón Lewis and Kathrine Windfeld, recorded in Madrid.

Format

Album + Documentary

Studio

Camaleón, Madrid

Ongoing

Artist Collaborations

New constellations between musicians working across Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the Nordic region. Developed through residencies, co-productions, and long-form artistic partnerships.

Geography

Europe, Latin America, Nordic

Support

Support Nova
Foundation

Nova Foundation depends on partnerships, grants, sponsorships, and individual support to continue developing ambitious cultural projects.

Your support helps us:

  • Create better conditions for artists
  • Produce concerts of high artistic quality
  • Document and share new music
  • Build international cultural bridges from Copenhagen
  • Make original music accessible to wider audiences
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Forms of Support

Support can take many forms. We welcome conversations with funders, sponsors, venues, and individuals who believe in what we are building.

  • Donations
  • Funding and grants
  • Sponsorship and partnerships
  • Venue collaboration
  • Media support
  • Professional expertise
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The Board

The Board

Formand

Abel Alazo

Creative producer, Art Director, and designer with over 15 years of senior experience in Copenhagen. Founder of Nova Concerts Series. His work spans branding, communication, concert production, and cultural strategy.

Bestyrelsesmedlem

Yasser Morejon Pino

Cuban-born musician and composer based in Copenhagen. A central figure in the Danish-Cuban jazz scene, Yasser brings deep artistic and cultural knowledge to the foundation's programming and international partnerships.

Bestyrelsesmedlem

Tijana Mišković

Independent curator and art writer based in Copenhagen, with an international practice spanning exhibitions, publications, and cultural research. Her perspective shapes the foundation's broader cultural vision.

Founded

19 May 2026

CVR / VAT No.

DK-46500121

Type

Musik- og kulturforening

Address

Based in Copenhagen, Denmark

Get in touch

Press & Media

abel@nova-concerts.com

Partnerships & Funding

abel@nova-concerts.com

Location

Based in Copenhagen, Denmark

Concert Platform

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