Album Release on 13. Sept 2024
Weber’s new project “Imaginary Cycle”
Florian Weber is an award-winning pianist known for merging classical virtuosity with contemporary jazz.
His music is marked by a deep sensitivity to sound, with a refined approach to dynamics and structure that infuses each piece with emotional depth. Weber transitions seamlessly between complex rhythms and delicate, lyrical passages, making his performances both intellectually stimulating and emotionally resonant. Weber’s collaborations include jazz legends like Michael Brecker, Pat Metheny, Tomasz Stańko, and Lee Konitz. His acclaimed recordings with trumpeter Markus Stockhausen, such as Alba, and the praised album Lucent Waters with an American all-star quartet showcase his ability to integrate various musical styles into a cohesive and innovative sound.
Recipient of the German Jazz Critics Prize, Weber is also an accomplished composer. His work explores the intersection of composition and improvisation, blending structured and spontaneous elements. His latest projects continue to push jazz boundaries by incorporating classical and avant-garde influences.
Florian Weber has been a permanent member of the NDR Bigband in Hamburg since August 2021.
Release date: Sept 2024
CD 18,90 € / 2LP 37,90 €
Release date: NOV 2018
CD 18,90 €
Latest Posts
New Album Release 2024 – “Imaginary Cycle” / on ECM Records
New CD Release 2024 +++ Idiosyncratic, large-scale and in its fundamental disposition one of a kind, Florian Weber’s Imaginary Cycle, conceived for the unique instrumentation of brass ensemble and piano, is a hybrid of multiple musical languages that seamlessly blends...
Florian Weber – New permanent member of the NDR Bigband
Status: 12.08.2021 Two new additions at the start of the seasonPianist Florian Weber and saxophonist Julius Gawlik joined the NDR Bigband in August 2021. The NDR Big Band welcomes two musicians to its ranks at the start of the coming season. With the 43-year-old,...
Florian Weber receives Belmont Prize
Belmont-Preis 2020 for Contemporary Music The Forberg-Schneider Foundation is awarding the 2020 Belmont Prize with its € 20,000 cash endowment to the jazz pianist-composer Florian Weber, a musician they consider a seminal innovator in contemporary music. Florian...
Biosphere – Florian Weber – Something Else.
Typically if you want to find the truly forward-thinking jazz pianist these days, you have to go out to whack jazz, where you’ll find visionaries like Matthew Shipp. But there are exceptions, and Vijay Iyer is a notable one. Now add Florian Weber to that short list...
SWP, Jazzthing 05/16
The 15 pieces on their album can be heard and understood as a continuous suite, as 15 united pleas for clarity and purity in music, for the many facets and tempos of undisguised beauty. Even if some compositions have the appearance of being dreamy, the two sensitive...
Bernhard Klostermann, Fono Forum 06/16
Exploration of sound and silence, equal dialog and the creation of magical moments through intuitive interplay - that's what this intimate chamber jazz is all about. ... But whether more contemplative or more light-hearted - what the music radiates above all is a...
Star, 04/16
Love can be expressed in many different ways. Through a look, a kiss - or a melody. Pianist Florian Weber has put so much tenderness and closeness into the composition "Emilio" for his son that one is truly moved when listening to it. Weber and his partner Markus...
Werner Stiefele, Audio 05/16
What a duo! What a harmony! Pianist Florian Weber and trumpeter Markus Stockhausen make music from one heart and one soul. Their duets are not encounters, but the fruit of a deep, grown, careful togetherness, whereby their melodies, their rhythms, their phrasing...