“When I was eleven years old I got into music because I wanted to play with my friends. The reason I’m a musician today isn’t because I felt some higher calling to be one, but because playing music with friends was and still the greatest source of joy and satisfaction for me. To this day the driving force behind my music is closeness and connection to others, my contemporaries, my collaborators and my audiences.”

Haggai Cohen-Milo is a virtuoso of the double-bass and an explorer of interdisciplinary performance. For over ten years he’s been collaborating with dancers and choreographers to create a common language for interdisciplinary performance in sound, movement, and visual art. His composition and directorial work includes dance, theater and movie scores alongside his own music releases. In 2019 Haggai became the musical curator of FRAMED Berlin. He is the winner of the ECHO award in 2018 for his work with the Omer Klein Trio of which he’s been a member since 2010.

Haggai leads a robust career as a touring and recording artist. He performs extensively both nationally and internationally, playing to captivated audiences in many countries in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia. He has recorded as leader and sideman/co-leader on over thirty albums working closely with his collaborators, for labels such as Warner, Fresh Sound – New Talent, John Zoran’s prestigious Tzadik, and more. Originally from Israel, Haggai moved to the states in his 20s to earn his B.M. from the New England Conservatory in Boston. He moved to Germany from New York City in 2017 and currently resides in Berlin.