About the concert
Diego Piñera, one of the most celebrated drummers and musicians in Europe, presents his new record Underground Rollercoaster, together with his Berlin band
Diego Pinera, an award-winning jazz virtuoso, is a unique personality who really shows new ways to music by juxtaposing the poetic-rhythmic freedom of jazz with other metric systems. His strong personal style is characterized by an advanced rhythmic game concept, a jazz sound with Latin touch and the urge for freedom of improvisation. Musical complexity and virtuosity always remain subtle at Pinera, a special freshness and lightness flows through his artistic work.
Since 2002, Diego Piñera has received several awards both as a drummer “instrumentalist” and as a songwriter both internationally and nationally, with the ECHO JAZZ 2017 and the German Jazz Prize 2023. The album Odd Wisdom, released by ACT Records, with Donny McCaslin, among others, received a Grammy nomination. He is considered an exceptional artist of his profession.
With his approach to rhythm rooted in the jazz tradition, Peter Ehwald uses unusual line-ups and modern harmony concepts to project the "here and now" in his energetic yet elegiac improvisations. Peter has worked with musicians such as Tom Rainey, Clarence Penn, Eivin Aares, Rhani Krija, Dan Weiss, Rudi Mahall, Claudio Puntin, Gunter Hampel, Nils Wogram, John Schröder, Jon Scott, Matthias Schubert, Stefan Schultze, Samuel Rohrer, Jonas Burgwinkel, Robert Landfermann. Peter is an active part of the Berlin jazz scene and a busy sideman.
Guitarist and composer Igor Osypov has developed with his crisp, slightly distorted sound into one of the most striking voices in jazz as well as indie rock and fusion. One of the albums he worked on as part of Logan Richardson’s project “Blues People” was included in the Top 3 Jazz Albums of 2018 by the New York Times.
As a double bass player, Marcel Krömker has been on tour for more than 15 years - from Iceland to Morocco, from Venezuela to South Korea. After his studies in Amsterdam and Berlin, he worked with renowned producers such as Yensin Jahn and Andy Jung. As a jazz double bass player, concerts with u.a. Nils Landgreen, Alex Sipiagin, Tony Lakatos, Nils Wogram on Marcel's musical highlights. In 2020, his debut album was released under his own name.
Peter Ehwald sax
Igor Osypov guitar
Marcel Krömker bass
Diego Pinera drums/comp