Fazioli Nights│michael Wollny (d) at Opus Jazz Club

Michael Wollny, born in 1978 in Schweinfurt, is one of Germany’s internationally most successful jazz pianists, a music inventor, an unconventional thinker and a popular figure. Nobody plays the piano like him. His trademark: the unpredictable, the quest for the never-before-heard, the courage to devote himself to the moment, to make the unforeseen sound self-evident. His desire to keep reinventing himself, both in terms of sound and composition; that is what makes him a ‘consummate piano maestro’. Ever since his ACT debut in 2005, call it [em], Michael Wollny has been causing a furore in the wide range of his numerous solo, duo, trio or even quite extended projects, like his Wunderkammer XXL with the hr-Bigband....

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Michael Wollny, born in 1978 in Schweinfurt, is one of Germany’s internationally most successful jazz pianists, a music inventor, an unconventional thinker and a popular figure. Nobody plays the piano like him. His trademark: the unpredictable, the quest for the never-before-heard, the courage to devote himself to the moment, to make the unforeseen sound self-evident. His desire to keep reinventing himself, both in terms of sound and composition; that is what makes him a ‘consummate piano maestro’. Ever since his ACT debut in 2005, call it [em], Michael Wollny has been causing a furore in the wide range of his numerous solo, duo, trio or even quite extended projects, like his Wunderkammer XXL with the hr-Bigband.

Visitors of Opus Jazz Club could see and hear him on stage in the fall of 2014 in duo with the German grand master of the saxophone, Heinz Sauer, as well as lately on the tremendous debut performance of Andreas Schaerer's Out of Land project on the 2016 Budapest Spring Festival.

Tickets are available for 1300 HUF on the spot, in the national JEGYPONT network of Interticket and at jegy.hu.

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