Frank Woeste

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Frank Woeste (* 1976 as Frank Wöste in Hanover ) is a German jazz pianist ( piano , Fender Rhodes ) who mainly works in France.

Live and act

Woeste had classical piano lessons at the conservatory in Bremen. His interest in jazz began at the age of 16 as an exchange student in the USA; He then played as a teenager in a local jazz club in Bremen and was trained as a young student at the Bremen University of the Arts from 1993 . He was also a member of the Lower Saxony Youth Jazz Orchestra. After graduating from the Cäcilienschule Wilhelmshaven in 1995, he began studying at the American School of Modern Music in Paris in 1996 . He continued his studies from 1997 to 2001 at the Paris Conservatoire National Superieure de Musique . Between 1997 and 1999 he was also a member of the Bujazzo and then played with Ed Kröger . He then worked in the Paris jazz scene with trumpeter Médéric Collignon , with whom he has played for over a decade, and singer Youn Sun Nah (on her album Reflet , Sony 2001).

In 2003 he founded his own trio with Mathias Alamane (bass) and Mathieu Chazarenc (drums); In 2004 his debut album appeared as a solo pianist ( Outward , improvisations on Chopin). In 2005 his debut album Mind at Play (Challenge Records) was released with his trio, with whom he also plays at French jazz festivals and tours through Asia and the Middle East on behalf of the French cultural institute. In 2007 the second album by the trio Untold Stories followed . He played in the quartet Jus de Bocse von Collignon, among others on the album Porgy and Bess (2005) and Shangri Tunkashi La (2009), with the band of trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf and with that of trumpeter Flavio Boltro . Between 2013 and 2015 he was part of Ibrahim Maalouf's band, with whom he recorded three albums. He also played with Malik Mezzadri (who played his 2011 album W-Double You together with Collignon and the Trio von Woeste, with Jerome Regard on bass, mostly with his own compositions by Woeste), Aldo Romano , Stéphane Belmondo , Gretchen Parlato , Michel Portal , Dave Douglas , John Scofield , André Ceccarelli , Till Brönner , Louis Sclavis , Rosario Giuliani , Markus Stockhausen , Peter Less , Ignaz Dinné and Sylvain Luc .

He has played at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal , Jazz in Marciac , the Paris Jazz Festival, Jazz à Vienne , the London Jazz Festival, the von Salzau, the JVC Jazz Festival in Seoul and the Ginza Jazz Festival in Tokyo.

Woeste has German and French citizenship.

Awards and honors

In 1998 Woeste won first prize at Jazz á Mennecy and in 1999 first prize at the Charles Trenet Concours in St. Maur. In 2003 he won second prize at the International Piano Competition in Montreux (Steinway Prize) and first prize at the Crest Festival. His trio won second prize at Jazz Hoeilaart in Belgium and at the European jazz competition in Getxo in Spain. In 2005 the trio was nominated for the Jazz à Juan Revelation . Woeste was nominated for the French Victoires du Jazz in 2011. He was a fellow of the French-American Jazzexchange 2014 together with trumpeter Dave Douglas and a fellow of the French-American Jazzexchange 2015 with Ryan Keberle.

Discography (selection)

  • Outward (2004, Sony; solo)
  • Frank Wöste, Uwe Steinmetz, Eric Schaefer Songful (2004, ArtPURecords)
  • Frank Woeste Trio: Mind at Play (2005, Challenge Records)
  • Frank Woeste Trio: Untold Stories (2007, Challenge Records)
  • W Double You (2011, Worldvillage / Harmonia Mundi )
  • Pocket Rhapsody (2016, ACT Music , with Ben Monder , Justin Brown )
  • Dave Douglas / Frank Woeste Dada People (2016, Greenleafmusic, with Matt Brewer , Clarence Penn )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abitur photo ( memento of October 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Woeste is in the first row, sixth from the right
  2. ^ Bujazzo discography
personal data
SURNAME Woeste, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wöste, Frank (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz pianist (piano, Fender Rhodes)
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover