Vincent Meissner – Piano Solo | Live Recording at Loft

tickets:
regular: 12,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 6,- €uro

doors: 8.00 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CET

Born in 2000, pianist Vincent Meissner is considered one of the most promising up-and-coming talents on the German jazz scene. Growing up in a village in central Saxony, he found his way to his instrument at an early age and discovered jazz as his passion, which was to become his life’s goal. At the age of sixteen he went to Dresden to the Landesgymnasium für Musik. A fire was stoked with ever new discoveries: Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck and Bud Powell were followed by Paul Bley, Monk, Craig Taborn, Vijay Iyer and the Germans Pablo Held, Achim Kaufmann, Joachim Kühn and Michael Wollny. The path was the goal. Seeker and discoverer Vincent Meissner has remained to this day, also immersing himself in contemporary piano music. Since 2019, he has now been studying in Leipzig (Hochschule für Musik und Theater) with Michael Wollny and Frank Chastenier, where he currently also lives and works....

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tickets:
regular: 12,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 6,- €uro

doors: 8.00 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CET

Born in 2000, pianist Vincent Meissner is considered one of the most promising up-and-coming talents on the German jazz scene. Growing up in a village in central Saxony, he found his way to his instrument at an early age and discovered jazz as his passion, which was to become his life’s goal. At the age of sixteen he went to Dresden to the Landesgymnasium für Musik. A fire was stoked with ever new discoveries: Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck and Bud Powell were followed by Paul Bley, Monk, Craig Taborn, Vijay Iyer and the Germans Pablo Held, Achim Kaufmann, Joachim Kühn and Michael Wollny. The path was the goal. Seeker and discoverer Vincent Meissner has remained to this day, also immersing himself in contemporary piano music. Since 2019, he has now been studying in Leipzig (Hochschule für Musik und Theater) with Michael Wollny and Frank Chastenier, where he currently also lives and works.

In his still young career he has already received numerous awards: in 2018 he received 1st place at the „Bechstein Piano Competition“ in Berlin followed by 1st place at the „International Jazzhaus Piano Competition“ 2020 in Freiburg and 1st place at this year’s „Langnau Jazznights Piano Competition“. The ACT release „Bewegtes Feld“ in June 2021 is his album debut with his ancestral trio, with Henri Reichmann (drums) and Josef Ziemetz (bass). The trio received among others the „Förderpreis der Deutschen Jazzunion“ 2019, the 1st „Mitteldeutscher Jazzpreis“ 2020, the 1st place at the „Junge Münchner Jazzpreis“ 2020 and the 1st place at the Biberach Jazzpreis 2022.

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