Simone Weißenfels "mspiano"

MSPIANO: My ears are in love... this "mspiano" has (almost) inspired me to drag out my Kurzweill PC 88 and lay down some improvised music... because the kind of experimental music she plays here is just exactly what inspires creative people to create... just listen to "Duo mspiano & Bert Stephan 2010" - Bert's brass is a perfect complement to a gentle yet mysterious tune that sets the stage for far more to come (since she's from Deutschland... The wind/synth intro on "extremental" is absolutely fantastic, and her wandering keyboard behind, under & through it made it my favorite piece on the album... totally engaging and full of the muse... I give it a MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, as well as making it the "PICK" of this issue for "best improvised piano work". Get more information at www. reverbnation. com/mspiano, Rotcod Zzaj

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.Simone Weißenfels

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, Juini Booth, Marco Eneidi, Klaus Kugel, Elliott Levin, Jair-Rohm Parker Wells, Lol Coxhill, John Sinclair, Ian Smith, Adam Smith, Daniel Carter, Manfred Hering...

She has played

.jazzfestivals in:

Berlin, Bochum, Detroit, Columbus, Leipzig, Münster, 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

She has performed the works of Ullmann, Schönberg, Weill, Eisler, Webern,

Schostakowitsch and many others.

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 as a youth symphony orchestra.

This international orchestra performed the premiere of her composition "lullaby for K." in Nanjing for 10.000 people and also in Leipzig within the scope of the 'Bach-Fest' in 2008.

Simone Weißenfels is teaching piano at the world-famous Thomanerchor in Leipzig.

Press

"... unusual tone colors, dramatic change of tempos to racing

Speed entranced audience as a pianist to impressive final chord.

Simone Weißenfels has a special ambition to creative music,

to contemporary as well as to jazz.

For what it here... has done, any description of the

Superlatives to unidimensional.

Leipziger Volkszeitung newspaper Grimma, 3. 1. 2001,

about Shostakovich solo concert

"... Another highlight was the concert by Simone Weißenfels on Saturday...

Free improvisation, but never left the ground of jazz,

met the premises. Time vigorously, sometimes whispering softly,

enchanted the game for the audience.

The concert was seen by many as one of the finest in the Series of special concerts over the past years scored.

Freiberg Free Press, April 2001 at Freiberger Jazz Festival