Everything has a beginning, and this will be the very first time I am including dance in one of my projects. I saw Sun-a Lee perform in a choreography by Continue reading →

I’ve taken so long for a little update… there was lots of work and more coming up. A very special day happened last Sunday in Paris, where I won the Continue reading →

I’ve been singing with French pianist Stephan Oliva since 2000, doing a few concerts per year, mostly playing duo. These concerts have always been special to me, they felt like fleeting Continue reading →

Steps, always. Sorry to have left this space unattended for so long. My students have convinced me that 2016 should be the year that I am joining Facebook. So after Continue reading →

Back from China and Japan – oh my, two countries I travelled to for the very first time, discovery!  – we will play a last concert before taking a break Continue reading →

What I might enjoy most of all about working in music, in the arts, is the process of ideas shaping into more concrete things (compositions, records…). The creative process. I Continue reading →

I have written before about my love and appreciation for my teachers, and also about my thankfulness to fellow musicians and ECM producer Manfred Eicher. During my career, I have received Continue reading →

Still my favourite voice in jazz, and a genre-defying artist, so deep and rich. I miss Jeanne Lee these days.  I think I love just about everything she did. Her Continue reading →

Und jedem Anfang wohnt ein Zauber inne, der uns beschützt und der uns hilft, zu leben.  (from Hermann Hesse’s poem “Stufen”) Happy New Year! It is so wonderful to start. My 2015 Continue reading →

Making music, of course. Composing, writing. And listening, too. Again, again, again. Last Sunday, I was able to spend some hours listening to a recording session by singer Tenzin Ngingthatshang and her group featuring Continue reading →

There’s not many recipes or rules that I’d call useful in art, and thus in art education. But in the creative field of music, I do think one can’t go Continue reading →

What a month this has been. Calming things down now, but November sure was intensely beautiful. Working with great, creative musicians, a fantastic sound engineer, dedicated promoters, and having a Continue reading →