Benjamin Schaefer – Piano Solo | Release: Power at Loft

tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro

doors: 7.30 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CET

Benjamin Schaefer prefers to play music together with others. Therefore, recording a solo album never seemed artistically appealing to him. However, feeling powerless in the face of the pandemic, war and climate change, it made artistic sense to seek answers to the question of what a single person can do.
So Schaefer recorded a pure piano album. No overdubs, no effects, no preparations. Just the grand piano, the DLF chamber music hall – and himself....

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tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro

doors: 7.30 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CET

Benjamin Schaefer prefers to play music together with others. Therefore, recording a solo album never seemed artistically appealing to him. However, feeling powerless in the face of the pandemic, war and climate change, it made artistic sense to seek answers to the question of what a single person can do.
So Schaefer recorded a pure piano album. No overdubs, no effects, no preparations. Just the grand piano, the DLF chamber music hall – and himself.
Benjamin Schaefer now presents the music from „Power“, his 12th album as (co-)leader, live in concert.

Benjamin Schaefer (*1981) studied jazz piano and composition at Cologne conservatory. He was a member of the German Youth Jazz Orchestra (BuJazzO). Concert tours have led him to 26 countries on four continents. He has played hundreds of club and festival shows, many of them with his own bands Benjamin Schaefer Trio (2004-14), Expressway Sketches (2008-21), Quiet Fire (2014-19), Hive Mind (2017-19), Stone Flowers (2020- ) and solo (2022- ).
His own projects are documented on twelve albums so far, released by renowned jazz labels, and have earned rave reviews both in Germany and abroad. Concerts have been recorded by all German public radio stations.
Benjamin Schaefer was a double winner at Concours du Jazz Europeen in Avignon 2007 (best composition & public award) as well as a grantee of the City of Cologne (2011) and Bayer Kultur’s stART program (2010-2013). He received the prestigious Neuer Deutscher Kompositionspreis in 2019, as well as numerous other federal and private grants for album productions and compositional work.
Besides his work as a pianist/ composer, Benjamin Schaefer teaches jazz piano at Cologne conservatory since 2009, was a longtime board member of the German Jazz Musicians‘ Union (2013-22), leads his own record label for the records, and has set himself the goal of reaching personal climate neutrality by 2030.

NOTE: In 2024, the concerts at the LOFT will start round 8pm - the LOFT opens approx. 30min before the concerts begin.
Exceptions (until Eastern): Sunday Concerts (start approx at 6pm, if not noted otherwise).
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