Name: Sunae by Michel Reis
Duration: 3 min 29 s
Description: Solo Piano Improvisation recorded at Cortez Jazz Room in Mito, Japan.

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Solo Piano Improvisation recorded at Cortez Jazz Room in Mito, Japan.

MITO - Solo Piano Improvisation -

Sunae

Hailed as a “tremendous pianist” by Downbeat Magazine, Michel Reis has in recent years paved his way into an artist of international acclaim. Michel Reis has appeared in in many of the world’s most famous venues and festivals, including the Blue Note Jazz Club, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Olympia in Paris, the Casa de Musica in Porto, the Panama Jazz Festival the Montreux Jazz Festival, Cully Jazz, Crest Jazz Vocal, OctLoft Jazz Festival, Les Rendez-Vous de l’Erdre de Nantes and many more. He has toured extensively all over the world, performing in Europe, Asia, North and South America, as well as Africa.

Michel Reis has released 10 albums as a leader and co-leader: A Young Mind (2005) and Fairytale (2009), Point of No Return (2011), “Reis Demuth Wiltgen”(2013), ‘’Hidden Meaning’’ (2013), “Capturing This Moment” (2015) and ‘’Places In Between” (2016), ‘’Mito” (2018) ,  ‘’Japan Quartet‘’(2018) and ‘’Once In A Blue Moon‘’(2018)

A native of Luxembourg, Michel Reis began studying classical piano, jazz piano, composition and theory at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg under the tutelage of Gast Waltzing, Serge Bausch, Kris Defoort, Patrick Hartert and Guy Cabay. To further his musical training, Reis moved to Boston, MA to study at Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music, studying piano and composition with Danilo Perez, Ran Blake, Frank Carlberg, Hal Crook, Joe Lovano, and Dave Holland, obtaining first a Bachelor of Music and then a Master of Music. After his studies, Michel Reis moved to New York to delve into the professional Jazz scene, performing regularly with different groups as a leader and as a sideman. It is in New York, where Michel Reis met composer and orchestrator David Spear, who has been very influential in his career and whom he remained a student and a close friend with.

Michel Reis has collaborated with Joshua Redman, Vince Mendoza Didier Lookwood, Richard Bona, Gast Waltzing, Patrick Zimmerli, Jeff Ballard, Joshua Redman, Esperanza Spalding, George Garzone, Paul Wiltgen, Marc Demuth, Adam Cruz, Jonas Burgwinkel, Robert Landfermann, Stefan Karl Schmid, Niels Klein, Louis Moutin, Mauro Gargano, Jonathan Orland, Takashi Sugawa, Akihiro Nishiguchi, Sun Ishiwaka and many more. Besides performing, Michel Reis works extensively as a composer, arranger and orchestrator. 

His co-lead trio Reis Demuth Wiltgen collaborates on a regular basis with US saxophonist Joshua Redman, who performs several of the trio’s compositions with his own bands, including Reis’ ‘The Story Of You And Me’. They embarked on a European tour in March 2018, where one of the highlights was a concert together with the Luxembourg Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Vince Mendoza. 

Michel Reis is a Steinway Artist.



Quotes:

What consistently comes to mind is how breathable this album is.
- Carlo Wolff, Downbeat Magazine ****

Easy to relate to while being out of the ordinary, this is a real sensory treat.”
- Midwest Record

The moodier their tone, the more evocative Reis’s quartet becomes. But even when they build momentum, their catchy sing-song melodicism is no less captivating.  Good stuff - birdistheworm.com

Reis is a tremendous pianist with classical chops, and maybe even a better composer, possessing a clear, expansive vision. Point of No Return shows off both sides of this exciting artist. 
- Frank Alkyer, Downbeat Magazine

Reis is a musical storyteller 
- Dan McCleneghan, All About Jazz

Michel Reis is a very exceptional pianist and composer 
- Joe Lovano, Grammy winning jazz saxophonist


Tempered impressionism with mounting rhythmic suspense. 
- Nate Chinen, New York Times (January 2007)

Sunae

Michel Reis

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