“I play the piano like a man (…) I get the respect that lady divas don‘t get, because I’m one of the guys.” Shirley Horn I’ve been struggling lately with questions about gender conformity and queerness. There’s been a lot of talk about the gender bias in jazz these days. A lot of performative activism, but few ideas for structural

Im folgenden einige Wort über das Trio Nr.2 (op.67) in E-Moll Dmitri Schostakowitschs, welches ich zusammen mit der Violinistin Cosima Bodien und der Cellistin Isabel Gehweiler im April 2020 aufnahm. Der Text stammt aus einer Arbeit, den ich im Rahmen meines Studiums zum diesem Trio verfasste. Shostakovich: piano trio no. 2 in e-minor, op. 67 by Dmitri Shostakovich Entstehungsgeschichte Das

Recently I have been helping and visiting some friends, who are forming a community and space for artists and creatively working people in Crémines, a village in the french speaking part of Switzerland. I wrote the following text to give you and idea of the project… Read more about this here. Are you lost? Is what you ask yourself, when

Interview with German Pianist Pablo Held, January 2019 http://www.pabloheld.com/ Ascent by Pablo Held Also check out Pablo’s interview series with fantastic musicians, including Norma Winstone, Bill Stewart, Kevin Hays and many others: https://pabloheldinvestigates.com/ Press here for #English Max: Dein Trio gehört für mich zu den spannendsten, Bands in Europa im Moment. Wie habt ihr euch eigentlich kennen gelernt? Pablo: Als

It’s the calm before the storm in Europe. As numbers of cases and deaths will surge in the next week, I find myself sticking to my phone reading news, trying to inform myself and understand what so many experts understand so much better than I ever will. I think, a lot of artists find themselves in a similar place like

From the Album Divine Traces (2019, QFTF) Advertency refers to a state of mind, typically aimed for in meditation. This composition is split into two parts, that are very different from each other – it tries to combine those two extremes: On the one hand there is the theme, a “head” in the jazz terminology that in fact originally derives

Pathos Piece – Divine Traces Pathos Piece, the opening track to my album Divine Traces set’s the mood to something dark and mysterious, something difficult, something serious. I find it to be the darkest piece from this release in that sense and find to experience a change while listening to the rest of the album, as we seem to be

After Orfeo ed Euridice: 1.      “Dance of the blessed spirits” (Theme from “Orfeo ed Euridice”, Christoph Willibald Gluck, transcribed for piano by Wilhelm Kempff) 2.      Improvised variation of the theme In Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Opera “Orfeo ed Euridice”, refering to the Greek myth of Orpheus, after calming the furies with his play, Orfeo enters the elysium and reunites with Euridice.

This is the second volume of my solo piano mixtape series and features three pieces first a free improvisation, followed by a composition by Muhal Richard Abrams, and concluded by the last movement of the g minor Sonata (op.47) by Wilhelm Kempff. Peace On You (Muhal Richard Abrams) Peace on You is a composition by Muhal Richard Abrams that I