Michael Wollny

Since ACT started their series Young German Jazz with Michael Wollny’s
trio debut call it, the press has been celebrating him, not only as a representative of a new generation of German jazz musicians, but also as a
most promising young talent on the piano.

“Young enough, not to have to lug around the ballast of the jazz tradition, and perceptive enough to discover something new every day” (K. Heidkamp Die Zeit). Wollny, a thoroughly modest musician, is nonetheless pleased at compliments like this one and at the lasting success of his up to now five releases on ACT which have brought him numerous national and international bookings, as well as the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik and the Bayerischer Kulturförderpreis 2005.

Few jazz musicians of his generation have received comparable recognition in the jazz press over the last four years. The Financial Times Deutschland describes him as a “comet of the German jazz scene” and the British magazine Jazzwise takes it for granted that “Wollny could well become a major talent in European jazz“. His solo piano tour gives British audiences the opportunity to catch this rising star.