C I N E M A M E E T S J A ZZ - FREE ADMISSION / EINTRITT FREI
(Konzertprogramm des Ekkehard Wölk Trios)
Besetzung: Ekkehard Wölk (piano/compositions/arrangements)
Lars Gühlcke (bass)
Andrea Marcelli (drums/clarinet)
U. a. im Programm:
Amarcord; La Strada; Waltz from The Godfather (Nino Rota)
Once upon A Time in America; Cinema Paradiso (Ennio Morricone)
Smile; Eternally from: 'Limelight' (Charlie Chaplin)
True Love (Cole Porter)
Moon River; Charade; The Days Of Wine and Roses (Henry Mancini)
Watch What Happens; you Must Believe in Spring (Michel Legrand)
The Shadow Of Your Smile (Johnny Mandel)
Wenn Ich Mir Was Wünschen Dürfte; Ich Weiß Nicht zu Wem Ich Gehöre (Friedrich Holländer)
u. v. a.
Das Ekkehard Wölk Trio präsentiert einen unterhaltsamen Zyklus aus farbenreichen und mit kraftvollen Jazzimprovisationen durchsetzten Bearbeitungen von Themen berühmter Filmkomponisten wie Friedrich Holländer, Werner Richard Heymann, Theo Mackeben, Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, Henry Mancini, Michel Legrand und Charlie Chaplin (The Kid, Modern Times, Limelight). CINEMA MEETS JAZZ.
Ekkehard Wölk hat bisher als Stummfilmpianist das Publikum im Babylon begeistert. Was liegt näher als mehr von Ekkehard Wölk mit Trio.
Rezension CD 'HOMAGE TO NINO ROTA (2008) (deutsch):
Interview auf Englisch mit Ekkehard Wölk zum Thema Film - und Stummfilmmusik:
ENGL:
The Ekkehard Wölk Trio presents an entertaining cycle of colourful arrangements of themes by famous film composers such as Friedrich Holländer, Werner Richard Heymann, Theo Mackeben, Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, Henry Mancini, Michel Legrand and Charlie Chaplin (The Kid, Modern Times, Limelight), interspersed with powerful jazz improvisations. CINEMA MEETS JAZZ.
Ekkehard Wölk has so far thrilled audiences at the Babylon as a silent film pianist. What could be more natural than more from Ekkehard Wölk with Trio.
Piano
Ekkehard Wölk was born in Schleswig (Germany) in 1967. He started to study the piano at the age of seven. His classical music teachers and professors included Kevin McKenna (Dublin), Hartmut Leistritz (Lübeck), Eliza Hansen (Hamburg) and Günther Däubler (Würzburg). His jazz improvisation teachers included Walter Norris, Dieter Glawischnig, Richie Beirach, Philip Catherine, John Taylor, Fred Hersch and Barry Harris. He studied historical musicology at Universität Hamburg, classical piano at Musikhochschule Lübeck and philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In the mid-1990s Wölk started working as a composer and band-leader, mostly in the jazz field.
Some of his works for German films have been released on DVD by the New York-based company Kino. Geheimnisse einer Seele by Georg Wilhelm Pabst from 1926 with Werner Krauss was released in 2008, as was Die Finanzen des Großherzogs by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. He has released eight albums as a pianist and arranger in Germany and Italy: A Meeting of Two American Giants (2001), Songs, Chorals and Dances (2005), Reflections on Mozart (2006), Desire for Spring (2007), Homage to Nino Rota (2008), The Berlin Album (2011) and Another Kind of Faith (2017), which features Wölk’s jazz arrangements of Protestant chorals by Martin Luther, Johann Walter, Heinrich Schütz and J.S. Bach.
He founded the Ekkehard Wölk Trio/Quartett, which performs works from various eras and styles, ranging from German classics to 21st-century music.
Has appeared at the Mozart Festival in Würzburg and the International Jazz Festival in New Delhi, given recitals at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre and toured to Norway, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Belgium and Italy.
Information for March 2020