Featured Articles

Ayako at JJA Awards Gala

Aug 18th, 2010 | By Jan Matthies | Category: Featured Articles

Ayako Shirasaki performed at the Jazz Journalists Association 2010 awards gala! Watch the recorded live stream…
Click here to get the link to the video of her performance.
Recent press reviews: “Jazz improvisation at the highest level. World class.” - Jazzthetik, German Jazz Magazine // “Ayako Shirasaki transforms the beauty solo piano with superb technique and unquestioned talent…” […]



1. International Jazz Solo Piano Festival

May 17th, 2009 | By Jan Matthies | Category: Featured Articles

Visit the Festival website: www.jazzsolopianofestival.com With friendly support of the Steinway houses Munich, Hamburg and Berlin, the organizer Jan Matthies Music Management, presents the first season of the International Jazz Solo Piano Festival in March 2009 with venues in Munich, Hamburg and Berlin. The virtuosic performing jazz solo pianist can be […]



Mathias Claus “swings” the piano

Apr 27th, 2008 | By Jan Matthies | Category: Featured Articles

Jazzpianist Mathias Claus inspires with his performance at the community center (vk) „Once you are addicted to jazz, it is hard to find your audience“.
On this evening Mathias Claus complained about this beloved sorrow, but not really serious, because the concert in the community centre was full with guests, who seemed to share the musical […]



Mathias Claus & Art

Apr 21st, 2008 | By Jan Matthies | Category: Featured Articles

Mathias Claus and the artist Regina Porip are connecting Jazz and Paintings in a “Jazzisage”.
The pianist as accompanist for visual impressions, played Evans and Petrucciani for the event series “For Piano” of the Jazzclub Stellwerk in Hamburg during Spring 2006.
The painter simultaneously showcased works of her cycle “The direct way to the heart!”
Website: Regina Porip
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