Stefan Schultze - Solo at Loft

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

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

Stefan Schultze is working on a new setup for piano, prepared piano, virtual pianos and visualization.

Stefan Schultze dives in and out of new and old material for piano and prepared piano. Excerpts from Pulsepusher Suite & System Tribe are combined with new material, and with each live performance a new narrative of its own emerges, incorporating the unexpected into the partially preconceived material. Overlapping sound clouds, meandering objects and unsynchronised patterns bring sound and colour to the forefront of this live performance....

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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

Stefan Schultze is working on a new setup for piano, prepared piano, virtual pianos and visualization.

Stefan Schultze dives in and out of new and old material for piano and prepared piano. Excerpts from Pulsepusher Suite & System Tribe are combined with new material, and with each live performance a new narrative of its own emerges, incorporating the unexpected into the partially preconceived material. Overlapping sound clouds, meandering objects and unsynchronised patterns bring sound and colour to the forefront of this live performance.

Schultze keeps to the point: emphatic, emotional, suggestive, remaining conscious of the structure, and with the listener in mind. In so doing, he has created music that challenges and rewards, music that can be both melodiously contemplative and insistently minimalistic. Yet it also astounds, culminating in some sort of outrageous surrealistic rock music, on through to the machine-like alienation created by the sound distortions of the prepared piano.

Press Review:

In equal terms angular and tender, German composer and pianist Stefan Schultze’s debut album as a soloist is a futuristic expedition into minimalism: I’m a sucker for prepared piano and this particular album makes me think about performing open-heart surgery on a grandfather clock, in a good way! It’s not a novelty though – this is serious, beautiful music from one of Europe’s most original jazz musicians.
Chris Elcombe, BBC Late Junction Albums of the Year 2018

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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