by FlorianQrious | Nov 13, 2024
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...
by FlorianQrious | 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,...
by FlorianQrious | 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...
by FlorianQrious | 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...
by FlorianQrious | 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...
by FlorianQrious | Feb 16, 2018
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...
by FlorianQrious | Feb 16, 2018
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...
by FlorianQrious | Feb 16, 2018
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...
