Michael Wollny

Michael Wollny studied at Hochschule für Musik Würzburg. Training under Chris Beier, John Taylor and Walter Norris is recorded. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are jazz. Places of work recorded in the authority are Leipzig and Berlin. Employment is recorded with University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. Distinctions recorded are Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, New German Jazz Award, Echo Jazz and gold record.

• Name — Michael Wollny • Born — 25 May 1978 • Birthplace — Schweinfurt, West Germany • Education — Hochschule für Musik Würzburg • Occupation — * Jazz pianist • Academic teacher • Organizations — * [em] (trio) • Michael Wollny Trio • Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig • Awards — * Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik • Echo Jazz • Bayerischer Staatspreis für Musik

Wollny took piano and violin lessons at the Musikschule Schweinfurt and at the Hermann Zilcher Conservatory in Würzburg until 1997, successfully competing in the Jugend musiziert. He then studied at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg with Chris Beier. He took the artistic diploma with distinction in 2002, and the master classes diploma in 2004. He also studied with John Taylor and Walter Norris.

From 1998 to 2002, Wollny was a member of the touring Bundesjazzorchester. He also played in a quartet led by Hubert Winter. Wollny's debut album was recorded with Wolfgang Kriener and Joachim Leyh. Wollny has played with Heinz Sauer from 2001 both as a duo and in a quartet. He was also a member of the trio em (trio), with bassist Eva Kruse and percussionist Eric Schaefer (jazz). He recorded CDs as a member of the group Young Friends (Great German Songbook, 2005), with Winter (Different Kind of Stories, 2003), with Hans-Peter Salentin (Beyond Your Thoughts, Sound of Silence), and with Nils Landgren (The Moon, The Stars and You, 2011), among others. He was a regular pianist at the Staatstheater Nürnberg and the Nationaltheater Mannheim from 1999. In 2005 Wollny signed a contract with the label ACT Music + Vision on which he released several albums with his trio and in collaboration with other artists, such as Sauer and Nils Landgren. In 2007 he released his first solo album Hexentanz. In 2014 his trio, now with bassist Tim Lefebvre, recorded the album Weltentraum, which made the pop charts. A review in The Guardian noted "They are one of the world's great jazz-driven piano trios, and Nachtfahrten takes nothing away from this assessment." In 2017, he was an artist in residence (Fokus Jazz: Michael Wollny) of the Rheingau Musik Festival, interviewed in a Rendezvous, and playing three concerts, improvising with Marius Neset in the first, with vocalist Andreas Schaerer, Émile Parisien and Vincent Peirani in the second, and finally with his trio and the Norwegian Wind Ensemble. Since 2014 Wollny has lived with his family in Leipzig, where he is a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig.

Michael Wollny is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded as pianist, composer, jazz musician, music arranger and university teacher.