13th EUNIC Jazz Festival: Trio Reis / Demuth / Wiltgen (LU)
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Trio Reis / Demuth / Wiltgen (Luxemburg) – 13th EUNIC Jazz Festival
Michel Reis – piano
Marc Demuth – bass
Paul Wiltgen – drums
Acoustic Contemporary Jazz
„Einfach grandiose!“ – JazzPodium, DE
„sämtliche dreizehn Nummern des Albums wissen immer wieder neue Wege in der bewährten Band Chemie aufzuzeigen.“ „Schlagzeug, Bass und Klavier gleiten wie aus einem Guss durch die Musik, ohne in Routine abzugleiten.“ – Jazzthetik, DE
„…effektvoll spannend, mit geradezu entwaffnender Hinwendung zum Melodischen…“ – Aachener Nachrichten, DE
„13 Tracks – purer akustischer Sound ohne elektronischen Firlefanz – berühren durch harmonische und rhythmische Raffinesse.“ – tip Pinneberger Tageblatt, DE
„Die Songs ihrer aktuellen CD „SLY“ bieten eine gut dosierte Mischung aus verschachtelter Raffinesse, neoromantischer Sensibilität und transparenter Geradlinigkeit. […] Eine von Spielfreude und Ideenvielfalt flankierte Souveränität ließ den aufmerksamen Zuhörern schnell seine analytischen Automatismen vergessen und man folgte der farbenprächtigen Emotionalität, die sich hinter jeder Windung des Weges mit neuen Perspektiven präsentierte.“ – HNA
„Leur musique montre qu’on n’a pas besoin de loops, d’effets électroniques et tout ça pour produire une musique riche, variée, à la fois romantique à l’européenne et énergique sinon expérimentale à la new-yorkaise. Les atmosphères passent de l’ombre à la lumière, de la rugosité à la fluidité, du presque free à l’harmonie.“ – Le Soir, BE
„Renards virtuoses au programme de „Sly“, le nouvel album du trio luxembourgeois Reis/Demuth/Wiltgen, et confirmation d’une vraie joie d’écoute lorsque ces trois-là sortent de leur tanière.“ – TSFJazz, FR
Pianist Michel Reis, bassist Marc Demuth and drummer Paul Wiltgen are three of Luxembourg’s most prominent jazz musicians. They formed the REIS DEMUTH WILTGEN Trio in 1998 while still in high school and performed on a regular basis in and around Luxembourg for a couple of years. The trio reunited in 2011 eager to share their experiences and new music. Their self-titled first album was released on Laborie Jazz to widespread critical acclaim. Since the release, the band has toured extensively throughout the world and has appeared at major international jazz festivals. The band’s sophomore album „Places In Between“ was recorded in New York City and released on Double Moon Records in 2016. The trio is now signed to the Italian label CAM JAZZ for whom they have recorded three albums: “Once In A Blue Moon” (2018), “SLY” and their latest release “FREEDOM TRAIL”.
In 2016, the trio started collaborating with world-renowned saxophonist Joshua Redman. Redman says that he fell in love with their music from the moment he heard them when his own quartet was playing a double bill with REIS DEMUTH WILTGEN at a festival in France. He has been playing several of the trio’s compositions with his own bands. In March 2018, the trio toured in Europe with Joshua Redman as a featured guest. This tour included a performance at the Philharmonie Luxembourg featuring the music of REIS DEMUTH WILTGEN arranged for the Luxembourg Philharmonic by multiple Grammy Award winning composer and conductor Vince Mendoza. The trio recorded this repertoire in 2022 with Redman and Mendoza at Philharmonie Luxembourg. The album entitled “FREEDOM TRAIL” was released on CAM Jazz in June 2026.
In November 2022, commissioned by Esch22 European Capital Of Culture, REIS DEMUTH WILTGEN premiered their project Synaesthesia during a sold out 10-show run in Luxembourg. In collaboration with multimedia artist and filmmaker Emile V. Schlesser, the trio created a walk-in installation featuring holographic 360-degree video projection surrounding the audience; an audiovisual experience, where music is translated into color, shape and movement in a fully immersive environment.
MICHEL REIS
Hailed as a “tremendous pianist” by Downbeat Magazine, Michel Reis has paved his way into an artist of international acclaim. Michel Reis has appeared in many of the world’s most famous venues and festivals, including the Blue Note Jazz Club, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Olympia in Paris, the Casa de Musica in Porto, the Panama Jazz Festival, the Montreux Jazz Festival, Cully Jazz and many more. He has toured extensively all over the world, performing in Europe, Asia, North and South America, as well as Africa.
Michel Reis has released 11 albums as a leader and co-leader. A native of Luxembourg, Michel Reis began studying classical piano, jazz piano, composition and theory at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg under the tutelage of Gast Waltzing, Serge Bausch, Kris Defoort, Patrick Hartert and Guy Cabay. To further his musical training, Reis moved to Boston, MA to study at Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music, studying piano and composition with Danilo Perez, Ran Blake, Frank Carlberg, Hal Crook, Joe Lovano, and Dave Holland, obtaining first a Bachelor of Music and then a Master of Music. After his studies, Michel Reis moved to New York to delve into the professional Jazz scene, performing regularly with different groups as a leader and as a sideman. It is in New York, where Michel Reis met composer and orchestrator David Spear, who has been very influential in his career and whom he remained a student and a close friend with.
Michel Reis has collaborated with Joshua Redman, Vince Mendoza, Didier Lookwood, Richard Bona, Gast Waltzing, Patrick Zimmerli, Jeff Ballard, Esperanza Spalding, George Garzone, Adam Cruz, Jonas Burgwinkel, Robert Landfermann, Stefan Karl Schmid, Niels Klein, Louis Moutin, Mauro Gargano, Jonathan Orland, Takashi Sugawa, Akihiro Nishiguchi, Sun Ishiwaka and many more. Besides performing, Michel Reis is very active as a composer, arranger and orchestrator. He teaches jazz piano at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg.
In 2005, Reis was a finalist in the First Moscow Competition for Jazz Performers. A year later, he took second prize at the Montreux Jazz Solo Piano Competition. Michel Reis won the Export Artist of the Year award from the Luxembourg export office music:LX, in 2013, 2014 and 2018. Michel Reis is a Steinway Artist.
Botschaft des Großherzogtums Luxemburg in Deutschland
https://reisdemuthwiltgen.com/
https://reisdemuthwiltgen.com/video/
TICKETRESERVIERUNG
Reservierte Karten müssen eine halbe Stunde vor Beginn der Veranstaltung abgeholt werden!
Reserved tickets need to be picked up 30 minutes before the beginning of the event!
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Invalidenstraße 117, 10115 Berlin, Germany