tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 7.30 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CET
„Hardly anyone can move as spectacularly between jazz and ‚classical piano music‘ as the pianist Lorenz Kellhuber. Whether improvising over ostinati in changing registers or between free tonality and bound harmonic sound anchors, Lorenz Kellhuber creates an intimate, concentrated situation between himself, the piano, the room and his audience“, writes the Neue Musikzeitung about his current solo album Live at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.
Classical music is firmly anchored in his DNA, jazz taught him to stand on his own two feet and in free improvisation Lorenz Kellhuber repeatedly finds the boundless fulfillment of his musical vision, a contemporary chamber music. He plays with his own musical history and intuitively seeks out different stages of his musical development, ranging from the baroque to the modern. With Felix Henkelhausen on double bass, one of the greatest talents on the European jazz scene, and Moritz Baumgärtner, one of the most versatile and innovative drummers of recent years, Lorenz Kellhuber formed „one of the best German piano trios“ (Audio) in 2018. Together they celebrate the fusion of three musical souls at the highest level, „an up and down of interplay, monologues, duos and trios whose brilliance is impossible to resist. A bandleader and pianist, highly individual, unconventional and full of ideas, with two congenial partners“ (Jazzpodium). Following the two recordings „Samadhi“ (2019) and „About:Blank“ (2020), „Low Intervention“, the trio’s third release and Lorenz Kellhuber’s tenth under his own name, appeared at the end of 2023.
Born in Munich in 1990 as the son of a church musician, Lorenz Kellhuber began classical piano training with Brigitte Schmid at the HfKM Regensburg at the age of five. At the age of eleven, he was accepted there as a junior student and, as a member of the Bavarian early childhood development class, was also taught violin and chamber music by Prof. Conrad von der Goltz. From 2003, he received piano lessons from Prof. Franz Massinger, a student of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Shortly afterwards, he was discovered by Rob Bargad (Nat Adderley Quintet) and intensively introduced to the jazz style. At the age of just 16, Kellhuber passed the highly gifted exam and became a student at the Jazz Institute Berlin, where Hubert Nuss and Kurt Rosenwinkel were among his teachers. During regular stays in New York, he also received lessons from Fred Hersch and Sophia Rosoff and graduated in 2010 as one of the world’s youngest bachelor graduates. Since then, his concerts have taken him throughout Europe, the USA and South America. He has played on international stages such as the Berlin Philharmonie, Isarphilharmonie Munich, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Montreux Jazz Festival, Basel Jazz Festival, Getxo Jazz Festival, Bohemia Jazz Festival, Mar del Plata Jazz Festival, Jazzwoche Burghausen. He has played concerts as a sideman and co-leader alongside Ed Partyka, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Charles Lloyd, Ack van Rooyen, Johannes Enders, Adele Neuhauser & Edi Nulz, Jesse Simpson, Orlando Le Fleming, Steven Heelein, Obed Calvaire, Bob Mintzer and many more. In summer 2014, Monty Alexander named him the first German musician to win the prestigious Montreux Jazz Piano Solo Competition. In 2016, he was nominated for the ECHO Jazz in the „Newcomer of the Year“ category, and in 2018 he was one of the ten „new key players“ in the magazine „Jazz thing“. He has released a total of nine albums and one EP since 2012, including the solo albums „Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival“ (2017), „Contemporary Chamber Music“ (2021) and „Live at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg“ (2022). Since completing his studies, Lorenz Kellhuber has been a sought-after lecturer. He regularly gives workshops and masterclasses in Germany and abroad. In the winter semester of 2021, Kellhuber was appointed professor at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden. Together with friends from his youth, Lorenz Kellhuber founded the Regensburg Chamber Music Festival in 2020, which he continues to direct and curate.
Felix Henkelhausen, born in Oldenburg in 1995, received classical piano and cello lessons before his interest in the double bass was awakened. At the age of 16, he began his junior studies at the HfK Bremen with Prof. Detlev Beier. This was followed in 2014 by studies at the Jazz Institute Berlin, which he successfully completed in 2019. Despite his young age, Henkelhausen has already played at home and abroad with nationally and internationally renowned artists such as Andrea Parkins, Dave Liebmann, Eric McPherson, Gebhard Ullmann, Hubert Nuss, Jim Black, Jochen Rückert, Kathrin Pechlof, Lotte Anker, Marc Copland, Nate Wooley, Oli Steidle, Pablo Held, Peter Schlamp, Philipp Gropper’s Philm, Toby Delius and many others. Henkelhausen is part of numerous bands such as Liun and the Science Fiction Orchestra, Lorenz Kellhuber Trio, Stefan Schultze Large, Jim and the Shrimps, Bram de Looze Trio feat. Eric McPherson, Nate Wooley’s Knknighgh and Tau5.In February 2023, he was nominated for the German Jazz Award in the bass category.
Moritz Baumgärtner, born in Zurich in 1985, began playing classical drums at the age of nine in Basel and studied with John Hollenbeck, Jim Black, Jeff Ballard and Joey Baron at the Jazz Institute Berlin from 2006 to 2010. With his very personal sound aesthetics, his unique melodic playing and unconventional creative drive, he has played his way into the international league within a very short space of time. „He has long functioned not only as a rhythmic backbone, but also […] as another sound-defining instrumentalist. Unusual gongs or bicycle bells are just as much a part of Baumgärtner’s tools of the trade as his personal style of accentuating or subverting rhythms.“ (FAZ) For many, the percussionist has been one of the most exciting in his field for years. Baumgärtner is a founding member of the Melt Trio (with Bernhard and Peter Meyer) and the Lisbeth Quartet, which has been active since 2007. The latter received an ECHO Jazz award in 2012 and 2018. Baumgärtner was awarded the German Jazz Prize 2023 for his contribution to the Melt Trio’s latest album. He can be heard on over 60 international CD productions and has toured with Tony Malaby, Ralph Alessi, Chris Speed, Bob Stewart, Lucian Ban, Louis Sclavis, Julia Hülsmann, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Angelica Niescier, Theo Bleckmann and many more. His tours abroad have taken him to the USA, South America, Africa, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, China, Mexico, Guatemala, Russia, Ukraine, Haiti, Norway, Romania, Denmark, Sweden and England. Moritz Baumgärtner is also active as a lecturer and was appointed professor at the Nuremberg University of Music in 2022.
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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