Florian Weber – New permanent member of the NDR Bigband

by | Apr 9, 2024

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

by | Jun 9, 2020

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.

by | Feb 16, 2018

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

by | Feb 16, 2018

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...