SingleRelease date:
05.07.2024
Clemens Christian Poetzsch, Reentko Dirks, Bjarke Falgren
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Meet the remarkable talents of Bjarke Falgren, Clemens Christian Poetzsch, and Reentko Dirks. Falgren, an acclaimed violinist, blends classical and contemporary styles with emotive string arrangements. Poetzsch, a pianist and composer, integrates classical, jazz, and modern influences. Dirks, a versatile guitarist, uses percussive techniques and innovative approaches. Together, they create captivating and groundbreaking music.
Clemens Christian Poetzsch
During his childhood in Dresden, Poetzsch received his first piano lessons from his grandfather, an opera singer, and immediately immersed himself in the worlds of Bach, Schubert and Clementis. Then, at the age of ten, a birthday present from his brother: a music book with Frank Sinatra standards that opened his ears to more extensive musical possibilities. Poetzsch soon played in the bar of the neighbouring house, improvising and throwing song structures over and over again.
These were formative experiences that accompanied Poetzsch throughout his classical music education at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden. During his piano and composition studies he spent his free time playing in jazz and free improvisation bands with friends and colleagues. He gave concerts, went on tour, discovered electronic music and absorbed all knowledge like a sponge. "I really like playing Bach and all the big ones," he says, "but from the beginning I just liked writing music myself and making my own songs. Playing in the orchestra or in big bands never really interested me".
And so what started as pure pleasure and the need to "find environments where I can surprise myself" became an ever-increasing influence on his music. "There never was a real plan," Poetzsch explains, "but I found that when I stepped away from all the sheet music and tried to find something for myself, it became my little language, and my voice and composition style really developed out of all of that."
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Reentko Dirks
Reentko has been a member of the European Guitar Quartet since 2012 and joined Masaa – winner of the German Jazz Award 2021.
In 2021 he and Turkish guitarist Erkin Cavus released their highly anticipated new album “Istanbul 1900”, which was even able to enter the charts in some countries.
Inspired by his intensive study of not only flamenco but also non-European and particularly Arabian music, Reentko’s unorthodox playing style blends a variety of genres, cultures and timbres to create an unconventional sound that has earned him multiple international prizes.
Reentko Dirks (born 1979 in Bad Gandersheim) studied Acoustic Guitar under Professor Thomas Fellow at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden before himself taking a teaching role at the school. He has initiated and participated in a broad range of artistic projects, with prize-winning examples including guitar duo “Dirks und Wirtz” (2006 European Guitar Award) and “Annamateur und Außensaiter” (2008 German Cabaret Prize). His role in the Grimme Prize-nominated television program “Zärtlichkeiten im Bus” involved collaborations with leading pop acts such as Bosse, Max Mutzke, Samy Deluxe, Yvonne Catterfeld, Enno Bunger and Andreas Bourani.
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Bjarke Falgren
In addition to his duo with Sönke Meinen, Bjarke Falgren also performs in solo concerts and with his own jazz quartet. His "unique ability to make every note a world of its own" (Danish newspaper "Politiken") has taken him to stages in Asia and Europe and to almost every concert hall and jazz club in Scandinavia.
Bjarke Falgren has also made a name for himself as a film composer for several documentaries and television series such as "Præst søger Paradis" and "Cool Cats". For his work as a violinist and composer, he was honoured with four Danish Music Awards in 2010 and the Ellen & Svend Asmussen Prize and the Trelleborg Foundations Culture Prize in 2017. Bjarke Falgren organises the "Falgren and Friends Festival Night" every year in his home town of Næstved.
