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Sebastian Sternal - Piano

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The three-time ECHO award winner Sebastian Sternal
Sternal's music combines influences from classical music with jazz
Sternal as composer, pianist and conductor
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Pianist and composer Sebastian Sternal (*1983) is a musical jack-of-all-trades with many creative faces.
Born in Mainz, he runs the Jazz Campus at the Johannes Gutenberg University there. He is a professor of jazz piano at the same university and also teaches jazz theory at the Cologne University of Music.
As a pianist, Sebastian Sternal, alongside Michael Wollny and Florian Weber, is one of the greats of the younger German jazz generation and is exemplary of a new type of musician of recent decades. He possesses outstanding technical mastery and is open to other genres as a matter of course. He was influenced by jazz and classical music studies in Cologne and Paris.
His love of jazz and classical music is part of his program. With his Symphonic Society, he realizes an organic integration of elements of jazz and classical music. He combines the richness of sound of a string quartet with a jazz wind quartet.
His music is characterized by a pleasant mixture of restraint and presence. It radiates dignity and strength, never imposes itself and is so appealing that you simply cannot escape it. Sternal is a virtuoso with a commanding left hand, which often engages in contrasting dialogues with the right hand with independent melodic lines. The influences of jazz greats such as Art. Tatum, Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea, as well as those of the impressionists Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, resonate in this wonderfully balanced sound.
As an innovator of contemporary jazz and also for his diverse projects, Sternal was awarded the ECHO Jazz prize in 2013, 2016 and 2018. He was also honoured with the “Annual Ge.......
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