Florian Weber (pianist)
Florian Weber (born November 20, 1977 in Detmold ) is a German pianist and composer of modern jazz .
Live and act
Florian Weber is the son of the music professor Rainer Weber and the opera singer Elke Weber. At the age of four he received private piano lessons. At the time of his graduation he was playing in both classical and jazz ensembles. As a soloist and ensemble member, he won competitions and received first prizes and best awards.
In 1999 Weber was invited to the Berklee College of Music in Boston as a scholarship holder , but declined to study mathematics, physics and biology instead. Shortly afterwards, however, he temporarily took up jazz studies with Hans Lüdemann and then with John Taylor in Cologne. From 2001 onwards, Weber studied with JoAnne Brackeen , Paul Bley and Danilo Pérez in Boston and with Richie Beirach and Lee Konitz in New York via a new scholarship offer . In the late 1990s he began to work with musicians such as Michael Brecker , Albert Mangelsdorff , Eddie Henderson , Lee Konitz and Benny Bailey and graduated from the Cologne University of Music in 2005 . Shortly afterwards he went on tour as a soloist with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra and played on Angelika Niescier's album Sublim 3 .
Together with the American bassist Jeff Denson and the Israeli drummer Ziv Ravitz , Florian Weber founded the Trio Minsarah during his studies in 2002 . “A Minsarah (Hebrew for prism ) bundles light into a multicolored spectrum. Weber, Denson and Ravitz simply turn this process around, send swing, bebop, bartok, Bach, funk, rock, African, oriental, chorals, repetitions, bitonality and free play in exactly the opposite direction, creating a completely new, radiant style . ”In 2006 Weber released Minsarah, his first CD under the title of the same name. The CD was awarded the “ Prize of the German Record Critics ”.
In Cologne, Lee Konitz began to work with the Trio Minsarah (2006) and found "partners ... with the three musicians who have enough stubbornness and substance to put him under so much tension that he is now joining his" New Quartet " explained. “The four performed together in Germany and especially in the USA and recorded the first CD Deep Lee in 2008 in the Systems Two Studio in Brooklyn. This was followed by the recordings of Blurring the Lines , before Weber was the first German pianist to record a live album with the Lee Konitz New Quartet in New York's Village Vanguard in 2010 ; Standards Live: At the Village Vanguard received the “Choc de l'Annee” award from the French magazine Jazzman . An album with jazz standards followed .
In 2011 Weber founded the formation Biosphere together with Lionel Loueke (guitar), Thomas Morgan (bass) and Dan Weiss (drums) , in which he played the piano as well as Fender Rhodes and increasingly used North and West African rhythms. In 2012 the CD Biosphere was published. He also played in the duo Inside Out with Markus Stockhausen and in a quartet with Anna-Lena Schnabel .
Prizes and awards
In 2013 Florian Weber received the Echo Jazz as Instrumentalist of the Year national piano / keyboards and he is the winner of the WDR Jazz Prize for Improvisation 2014.
- 2020: Belmont Prize for contemporary music from the Forberg Schneider Foundation
Discographic notes
- Minsarah: Minsarah (Enja 2006)
- Minsarah & Lee Konitz: Deep Lee (Enja 2008)
- Minsarah: Blurring the Lines (Enja 2010)
- Eric Vloeimans & Florian Weber: Live @ the Concertgebouw Amsterdam (Challenge Records 2011)
- Jeff Denson Quartet: ( Between the Lines , 2012; with Ralph Alessi , Dan Weiss)
- Biosphere (Enja 2012)
- Florian Weber, Don McCaslin , Dan Weiss Criss Cross (Exploring Monk and Bill Evans) (Enja 2015)
- Markus Stockhausen & Florian Weber: Alba (ECM 2016)
- Florian Weber: Lucent Water (ECM 2018), with Ralph Alessi , Linda Oh and Nasheet Waits
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from May 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Interview in Jazz Podium 10/2009: 32–35
- ↑ Reinhard Köchl, http://www.class-germany.de/aktuell/4-2006.pdf
- ↑ Stefan Hentz, http://blog.zeit.de/tontraeger/2010/04/26/lee-konitz_5273
- ↑ Excellent jazz pianist Florian Weber , accessed on April 6, 2013
- ↑ WDR Jazz Prize 2014 - The winners have been announced! ( Memento from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Jazz Belmont Prize for composer Florian Weber , deutschlandfunk.de, published and accessed June 8, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weber, Florian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Detmold , Germany |