Einsteins Piano: Gwilym Simcock

In the organizer's words:

Listening to the British pianist Gwilym Simcock, you quickly realize why the piano is said to be able to sound like an entire orchestra and that it is like a self-contained cosmos. He makes excellent use of the instrument's options for excursions that lead from the world of modern jazz into neo-romantic realms and onto classical or even uncharted terrain. The harmonic and melodic finesse of Gwilym Simcock is always striking, his rhythmic power takes your breath away.

Now this storyteller, who manages to draw us into his dense plots within a few bars, comes to us.

Gwilym Simcock was once regarded as a child prodigy. But he coped well with the pressure of expectation. The man in his mid-forties, who once studied at the Royal Academy of Music under such aces as John Taylor, Nikki Iles and Geoff Keezer, released his first album in 2007 and has since released a series of his own recordings that show his versatility. Apart from solo projects of all kinds, Simcock, who has even composed several piano concertos, has worked with Tim Garland's Lighthouse Trio, Bill Bruford's Earthworks, Stan Sulzman's Neon and Pat Metheny.