Aria

Aria (feat. Bodek Janke)

Hauke Remix EP

Hauke

‘Dusk’ provides a transcendental breakthrough in album, where over a meditative drone backdrop Sebastian Studintzky’s trumpet – played with a mute and hence sounding crisp – makes a mystical and heavenly appearance. Like some sort of messiah delivering an important omen, the listener is taken aback in awe, hypnotized by each and every of the trumpet’s scattered lines. The nine-minute-long song is a completely improvised, first-take jazz piece.

Dusk

Single ‘Lucide’ captures just how comfortable Sebastian Studnitzky has become with the grey area in between genres, making music that cycles through different styles and moods in ease. Starting off with familiar classical piano chords that almost feel commonplace, the track opens up to Studnitzky’s nonsensical singing, and later signature trumpet playing – so soft the tone threatens to break. On the piece, voice and trumpet appear to reverse their roles; while the trumpet feels like a fragile human voice, the vocals are used as an instrument delivering sounds rather than words. Both instruments plus the piano intermingle freely on ‘Lucide’, sometimes walking in pairs, at other times solo, one instrument picking up where the other left off playfully. It’s truly experimental but carries none of the pretense of the word.

Lucine

Omara is album's most longing track. The piece’s languid piano motif is filled with struggle and heart-wrenching pain. A stripped-down set-up explains the intimacy felt throughout the track, almost as if Studnitzky had simply pressed ‘record’ during an at-home improvisation. This lack of polishing also makes Omara an incredibly personal and relatable journey that hits the listener deep within.

Omara

Flusso

Flusso (feat. Bodek Janke & KY)

Nocturnal

Auriel

Abyss

Memento

The album of Berlin's trumpeter and pianist Sebastian Studnitzky.
released in 2012

01 Grandola

02 O Pescador

03 First Steps

04 Mertola

Pads

Pads (Live in Berlin) [feat. Odesa Symphonic Orchestra]

Memento Odesa

Egis (Live in Berlin) [feat. Odesa Symphonic Orchestra]

Voices (Live in Berlin) [feat. Odesa Symphonic Orchestra & Andrii Pokaz]

Melody (Live in Berlin) [feat. Odesa Symphonic Orchestra]

Sul (Live in Berlin) [feat. Odesa Symphonic Orchestra]

Luba

Luba (Live in Berlin) [feat. Odesa Symphonic Orchestra & Andrii Pokaz]

STUDNITZKY has always been a traveller between the realms of jazz, classical and electronic music. With “MEMENTO – orchestral experience” he presents his multifaceted and stylistically open nature with entrancing succinctness.

Accompanied by the Berliner Camerata and guests, he celebrates a fascinating and emotional journey on trumpet and piano. In his inimitable music not a single note is superfluous. It is detailed, minimalistic and transparent, yet it displays an emotional depth which is uniquely personal.
With this distinctive sound, STUDNITZKY stands pleasantly apart from the typical classical/jazz crossover style. Too edgy for pop, too emotional for jazz, too opulent for electronic music, and with a rhythmic groove far removed from avant-garde, he has created something that is refreshingly new.

“Sebastian Studnitzky is a sound aesthete … You find yourself wanting more of this tranquil and unpretentious chamber music.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

“Piano or trumpet? Large band or small ensemble? Electronic or classical? Jazz or pop? Art music or easy listening? Berlin’s Sebastian Studnitzky simply cannot decide, nor does he want to. His new album proves once again that he really doesn’t need to.” WDR 3

“It sounds as if Michael Nyman, the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Philip Glass and Jon Hassel were performing on a mountain top and creating a new form of hypnotic music from the sounds of the returning echo: it’s catchy, it gets under your skin!” JAZZthing

“His compositions float in the air. They call for attentive ears. As peaceful as they are, they somehow completely fill the room right from the very first moment. They creep deep within the listener and bring along a resonance – delicate and gentle.” Schwäbische Zeitung

STUDNITZKY is already an internationally acclaimed performer of the highest level on both trumpet and piano. Few instrumentalists of his generation have appeared on the stages of so many clubs and festivals all over the world. He has performed with names such as Nils Landgren’s Funk Unit, Jazzanova, Mezzoforte and Wolfgang Haffner. Most recently, he can be heard on recordings by Nils Landgren’s Funk Unit, Jazzanova, Wolfgang Haffner, Nightmares On Wax, Moritz von Oswald, Mezzoforte and Dominic Miller. In 2012 he founded Contemplate, his own record label and network. In 2014 he initiated the XJAZZ Festival Berlin and took charge as its musical director. It immediately became Berlin’s largest jazz festival and turned the German jazz scene on its head. 

2 Egis

1 Memento

Music For Magic Places was written for the monumental sculpture of a rain forest tree by Wolfgang Volz and the according light installation by Herbert Cybulska at the exibition Magic Places in the Gasometer Oberhausen and is dedicated to the Earth's great natural and cultural heritage sites.

7 Solbakken

1 Music For Magic Places

STUDNITZKY is widely known for transporting real emotions without sob stuff with his songs and trumpet playing. He masters this tightrope walk like no other with an unagitated finesse. His astonishing way of trumpet playing made him one of the most sought-after session players in Germany nowadays. That’s why he’s on the road now for years with Jazzanova, Nils Landgrens Funk Unit, Mezzoforte and Wolfgang Haffner and is playing at the biggest festivals worldwide. Probably it’s Studnitzky’s hectic cosmopolitan lifestyle between airports, hotels and stages that makes the grace of nature his biggest source of inspiration. It’s here where the full blood musician is grounded and is able to keep himself confident and concentrated about his very own cosmos of sounds.

3 Memento

Ky-Organic

Watergate

BREATH

STUDNITZKY has always been a traveller between the realms of jazz, classical and electronic music. 
In his inimitable music not a single note is superfluous. It is detailed, minimalistic and transparent, yet it displays an emotional depth which is uniquely personal.
Too edgy for pop, too emotional for jazz, too opulent for electronic music, and with a rhythmic groove far removed from avant-garde, he has created something that is refreshingly new.

“Piano or trumpet? Large band or small ensemble? Electronic or classical? Jazz or pop? Art music or easy listening? Berlin’s Sebastian Studnitzky simply cannot decide, nor does he want to. His new album proves once again that he really doesn’t need to.” WDR 3

STUDNITZKY is already an internationally acclaimed performer of the highest level on both trumpet and piano. Few instrumentalists of his generation have appeared on the stages of so many clubs and festivals all over the world. He has performed with names such as Nils Landgren’s Funk Unit, Jazzanova, Mezzoforte and Wolfgang Haffner. Most recently, he can be heard on recordings by Nils Landgren’s Funk Unit, Jazzanova, Wolfgang Haffner, Nightmares On Wax, Moritz von Oswald, Mezzoforte and Dominic Miller. In 2012 he founded Contemplate, his own record label and network. In 2014 he initiated the XJAZZ Festival Berlin and took charge as its musical director. It immediately became Berlin’s largest jazz festival and turned the German jazz scene on its head. Since September 2014 Sebastian Studnitzky has been a professor at the Dresden University of Music.

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