It has now become a dear tradition that… Annual series of “Ottobrunner Concerts” ends with a piano festival. For the eighth time you can experience a “Jazz Piano Marathon” on Saturday – with three world stars of jazz. On the one hand, there is the Swiss Nik Bärtsch, who not only studied classical piano, but also studied philosophy and linguistics. And that’s how he has been for more than 20 years Zen jazzer among the pianists made a name. On his ECM albums – solo and with his band Ronin – he has almost created a new style: his decelerated minimal jazz transforms rhythm into pure energy.
The style of the Italian Antonio Faraò is hardly less unique. The Roman combines flawless technology with unbridled creativity. Since he won the “Concorso Internazionale Piano Jazz Martial Solal” in Paris in 1998, he has become an integral part of the international jazz scene. Last but not least, Cornelius Claudio Kreusch – artistic director of the Ottobrunner concerts together with his brother Johannes Tonio – gives the honor: Berklee alumni, producer, music manager, entrepreneur and creator of more than 30 of his own, sometimes chart-topping albums. And also an unmistakable stylist of the moment, always drawing on his emotionality.
8th Jazz Piano Marathon Ottobrunn, Saturday, December 9th, 8 p.m., Wolf-Ferrari-Haus, Rathausplatz 2, www.ottobrunner-konzerte.com