SingleRelease date:
24.05.2024
Bjarke Falgren, Sönke Meinen, Clemens Christian Poetzsch
Droplets
"Droplets" is a melodic ballad written and performed by violinist Bjarke Falgren and guitarist Sönke Meinen. Inspired by the imagery of water, from small droplets to the wide ocean, it features not only viola and guitar, but also the warm piano sounds of Clemens Christian Poetzsch and orchestral strings to create a wide range of dynamics that draws the listener in. It is the first single of Meinen's and Falgren's album "The Circle".
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.Sönke Meinen
Sönke Meinen has won numerous awards - in 2016 he received honours at two of the biggest international guitar competitions: the prestigious "Guitar Masters" competition (1st prize) and the "European Guitar Award" (sponsorship award). He was also honoured with the "Eco Music Promotion Prize" in 2015 and the "Artesano Guitarist of the Year" award in 2016.
When he is not on stage in a duo with Bjarke Falgren, Sönke Meinen performs as a soloist or in a duo with guitarist Philipp Wiechert. Outside the stage, Sönke Meinen is a sought-after lecturer and workshop leader as well as the initiator and (together with Philipp Wiechert) artistic director of the "Freepsum International Guitar Festival", which has been held annually since 2011.
Photo: Michelle JekelClemens 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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