Philipp Rüttgers

Philipp Rüttgers Pianist. Composer. Improviser. Crossover Artist. Philipp has a gift expressing emotions of our everyday life through music, creating his very personal style of colours and sounds. Praised as a renewal mind of music, an excellent composer and a virtuosic but tender pianist, Philipp crosses different genres with ease propelling music to a guaranteed excitement. Born in Kreuzberg Berlin, based in Amsterdam, Philipp shapes his personal artistic voice as a professional piano player, composer and improviser in the field of jazz and contemporary music. Awarded North Sea Jazz Composition Assignment Funded by Fonds Podium Kunsten. Sena. Buma Stemra. For his second trio album, German-born pianist and composer Philipp Rüttgers dives deep into the world of this most eccentric of French composers. Working through the complete volume of Satie's works (Éditions Salabert), he gathered fragments and motifs. He carefully reordered and reshaped them, the way you might build a new story from existing words. The abstract and enigmatic qualities of Satie remain present, yet the music breathes naturally within a modern piano trio language. Subtle traces of today's jazz vocabulary may surface, yet the voice is unmistakably Philipp's own.