SIMONE WEISSENFELS
MSPIANO
Simone WeiĂźenfels
is one of Leipzig, Germany’s most versatile artists in contemporary, classical music and jazz. She performs successfully both the works of contemporary and classic composers as well as her own compositions.
Since her career start in the mid 80s, she is well known for her genre-spreading
omnipresence with actors, cabaret artists as well as a vast number of jazz a.o. musicians like:
Gisela May, Uschi Brüning, John Sinclair, Klaus Kugel, Elliott Levin, Jair-Rohm Parker Wells, Lol Coxhill, Ian Smith, Adam Smith, Ken Yamazaki, Manfred Hering …...
read more
SIMONE WEISSENFELS
MSPIANO
Simone WeiĂźenfels
is one of Leipzig, Germany’s most versatile artists in contemporary, classical music and jazz. She performs successfully both the works of contemporary and classic composers as well as her own compositions.
Since her career start in the mid 80s, she is well known for her genre-spreading
omnipresence with actors, cabaret artists as well as a vast number of jazz a.o. musicians like:
Gisela May, Uschi Brüning, John Sinclair, Klaus Kugel, Elliott Levin, Jair-Rohm Parker Wells, Lol Coxhill, Ian Smith, Adam Smith, Ken Yamazaki, Manfred Hering …
She has played
.jazzfestivals in:
Berlin, Bochum, Detroit, Leipzig, MĂĽnster, Nanjing and many other cities as a soloist, in duos, ensembles and big band music.
Similarly, she has claimed great success with
.concerts and tours to:
USA, Taiwan, Poland, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, China, Ukraine and throughout Germany, in Gewandhaus and Mendelssohn Hall in Leipzig among other places
.Broadcasting company productions with the DLF and West German Radio, broadcasting company interviews and recordings in Germany, Taiwan, China and Bosnia-Herzegovina
During a postgraduate in Moscow with Prof. A.A. Alexandrov Simone WeiĂźenfels built close
relationship with Dmitri Shostakovich’s music. With her very successful solo program she is one of the important Shostakovich interpreter in Germany.
In Moscow were also laid the groundwork for very ambitious piano teaching.
Today she leades international courses – for example in Greece workshops on “rhythm and sound in painting and music” and Eric Satie.
After her ensemble multiboxx performed the World Historical and Cultural Festival in Nanjing 2004 in 2006 though 2008, she organized and conducted one of the first practical youth exchange projects of young Chinese and German musicians in Nanjing and Shanghai.
This international ensemble performed the premiere of her composition “lullaby for K.” in Nanjing for 10.000 people and also in Leipzig within the scope of the International Bach-Fest in 2008.
She played in ensembles of various cast and style. A 4-hands-piano – concert program with works by Mozart, Reger a.o. as well as a program
“Music from exile” with works by Schoenberg, Weill, Eisler, Webern and others.
Another program with compositions by in the Third Reich persecuted Jews Victor Ullmann and Norbert Glanzberg was recorded.
She also is writing music for theatre.
Since 1999 Simone WeiĂźenfels is teaching piano at the world-famous Thomas-Boy-Church-Choir (Thomanerchor) in Leipzig.
She initiated and led a very first Instrumental Concert-series
“Forum modern – Thomaner Avantgarde” in the framework of the International Bach Festival.
Canadian Label Sea of Tranquility 2008 zu CD arrival:
It’s not often the stars align themselves in a way that they allow for such a unique musical collaboration as the one between German pianist Simone Weissenfels and American multi-instrumentalist Adam Smith. Yet this is exactly what transpired when these two kindred spirits got together this past fall to weave their magic during a small performance tour of select US cities. In addition to these performances, where they were joined onstage by special guest musicians in each locale, they also managed to capture their flood of creativity over the course of four days together in the studio. The results of some of these live-in the studio improvisations can be heard on this splendid new four song offering entitled Arrival.
The performances on Arrival reveal not only the obvious, which is two musicians who are extremely adept on their respective instruments, but also more importantly these compositions highlight the magical possibilities that can be conjured up when two like-minded individuals, who are as well versed and epitomize the art of musical dialogue, get together. Weissenfels (acoustic piano) and Smith (drums & electronics) converse and feed off each other with a remarkable amount of fluidity, pouring their heart and soul into almost sixty minutes of intensely demanding & intriguing, improvised music. …
http://www.youtube.com/mspianotaste
http://www.myspace.com/mspianotaste
http://www.lastfm.de/music/mspiano
http://www.reverbnation.com/mspiano
show less
