Dirk Balthaus (born 1965 in
Oberhausen
Oberhausen (, ) is a city on the river Emscher in the Ruhr Area, Germany, located between Duisburg and Essen ( ). The city hosts the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and its Gasometer Oberhausen is an anchor point of the European Rout ...
) is a German jazz pianist. He is leader of the Dirk Balthaus Trio, which performed with
Lars Dietrich at the
North Sea Jazz Festival
The North Sea Jazz Festival is an annual festival held each second weekend of July in the Netherlands at the Ahoy venue. It used to be in The Hague but since 2006 it has been held in Rotterdam. This is because the Statenhal where the festival w ...
in 1998. He is also a member of the Old and New Quartet.
[Jazz in Deutschland: das ]Jürgen Wölfer
Jürgen Wölfer (25 December 1944 – 24 July 2015) was a German music writer and historian with focus on Jazz.
Life
Born in Eisleben, Wölfer studied education, graduated with a diploma and worked for a long time in the record industry, where ...
's lexikon - 2008 Page 29 "Er lehrt am Konservatorium in Den Haag und spielt mit eigenen Gruppen oder mit dem Old & New Quartet mit Dirk Balthaus (Klavier), Rob Asmus (Saxofon) und Gabriel Guelman (Bass),"
Recordings
* Gerlo Hesselink Quartet: "Garden of stones" 2013 independent
* Lochs/Balthaus/Herskedal: "Choices" 2012 Berthold Records
* Millennium Jazz Orchestra: "Distrust all rules" 2011 St. MJO
* Millennium Jazz Orchestra: "Pretty Pumps" 2010 St. MJO
* Lochs/Balthaus/Herskedal: „kein Titel“ 2009 MUC
* Dirk Balthaus Trio: „Consolation“ 2009 Hi5 Records
* Cotton Club All Stars: „Amsterdam Jam“ 2007 Hi5 Records
* Léah Kline: „Juzz Flirtin“ 2007 Theatrics/Hi5 Records
* Balthaus/Lumeij/Grimbergen: „Gershwin“ 2006 Hi5 Records
* George Carlo M.: „Smooth Road“ 2004 Munich Records
* Volker Winck Quartet: „Body & Soul“ 2003 independent
* Willem Hellbreker Quartet: „Resonance“ 2003 Munich Records
* Dirk Balthaus Trio: „On Children's Ground“ 2002 Munich Records
* Dirk Balthaus Sextet: „The Healing“ 1997 Via Records
* Hot Bolshevik: „Post Cold War Groove“, 1995 Red Boogie
* Balthaus/Lochs 4-tet: „Tales of the frog“ 1994 ac.music records
References
1965 births
Living people
People from Oberhausen
German jazz pianists
21st-century pianists
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