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30. September 2011   |   1 Comment

Neil Cowley: “Its great that I do music and not comedy! It means I can be understood in all sorts of new places”

 

On October 13, Neil Cowley will be in Luxembourg for the very first time. I had a little chat with Neil and we talked about as varied subjects as “live concert vs recording”, the “Old-fashioned image classical music has to face” or simply improvisation.

D: Who (which pianists) did you admire while growing up?

N.C. :   As a child I admired Erroll Garner for his lyricism. Michel Petrucciani for his melody. Dudley Moore for his charisma. After that I tended to become obsessed with other instrumentalists. Frank Zappa had a great influence on me. His playing and his composition.

D: Aged 10, you already played More

4. July 2011   |   No Comments

Neil Cowley – Interview

A few days ago, we had the pleasure to have a little chat with Neil Cowley, who’ll be at the Philharmonie with his trio in October. Here is an excerpt from our chat. The whole interview will be put online here in September :-) Don’t miss that!

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20. May 2011   |   4 Comments

18.30 – Stauzeit?

Luxemburg ist klein. Gerade mal knapp über 500.000 Einwohner. Eine Zahl, die so manchen Grossstädter schmunzeln lässt, vor allem wenn man weiss, dass ich von der Gesamteinwohnerzahl des Landes und nicht der Stadt spreche :-) Hinzu kommen täglich rund 150.000 Pendler aus Deutschland, Frankreich und Belgien. Trotz dieser scheinbar geringen Zahlen, ist täglich so einiges auf den luxemburgischen Strassen los und sehr oft ist, um 18.30, leider Stauzeit.

Was tun? Alternativen gibt es in der Stadt so manche. Die Philharmonie bietet eine davon, nämlich die “Chill at the Phil” – Reihe:  den Abend mit guter Live-Musik langsam anklingen zu lassen. Ich werde in den nächsten Wochen und Monaten noch detaillierter auf die einzelnen Musiker eingehen. Heute möchte ich euch, sozusagen als kleinen Appetizer More

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