Sat, Nov 7 In 3 days
Leverkusen, Germany
Erholungshaus· 8:00 pm
With Nils Landgren, Lars Danielsson and Wolfgang Haffner
4 Wheel Drive, Leverkusener Jazztage. Sold out
Piano · On tour: eine winterreise
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The eine winterreise solo tour, the 4 Wheel Drive quartet and a night of friends at the Berlin Philharmonie, as his own concert page lists them. ConcertLab had no part in booking these nights: every Tickets link goes straight to that night's box office.
Mon, Nov 9 In 5 days
Ingolstadt, Germany
Festsaal, Hämer-Bau· 8:00 pm
With Nils Landgren, Lars Danielsson and Wolfgang Haffner
4 Wheel Drive, Ingolstädter Jazztage
Wed, Nov 11 In 7 days
Munich, Germany
Ludwig Beck
In-store talk and concert
Fri, Nov 20 In 16 days
Essen, Germany
Philharmonie Essen
Solo: eine winterreise
Sat, Nov 21 In 17 days
Hamburg, Germany
Großer Saal, Elbphilharmonie
Solo: eine winterreise
Wed, Dec 2 In 28 days
Leipzig, Germany
UT Connewitz
Solo: eine winterreise
Thu, Dec 3 In 29 days
Frankfurt, Germany
Mozart Saal, Alte Oper· 8:00 pm
Solo: eine winterreise
Fri, Dec 4 In 30 days
Kassel, Germany
Karlskirche
Solo: eine winterreise
Fri, Feb 19 In 107 days
Nuremberg, Germany
Opernhaus Nürnberg
Solo: eine winterreise
Sat, Feb 20 In 108 days
Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
Hospitalkirche
Solo: eine winterreise, JazzTime Schwäbisch Hall
Tue, Feb 23 In 111 days
Augsburg, Germany
Parktheater im Kurhaus Göggingen
Solo: eine winterreise
Thu, Apr 29 In 176 days
Berlin, Germany
Philharmonie Berlin
With Tamar Halperin, Nils Landgren, Emile Parisien, Vincent Peirani and Andreas Schaerer
Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic: Wanderlust, Michael Wollny & Friends
About
Michael Wollny
Piano
Wollny, born in Schweinfurt in 1978 is indisputably now “one of the jewels of contemporary European jazz,” (Richard Williams). He has also probably done more than any other musician to shape jazz in Germany, to define the way it is perceived internationally, and to build its profile.
Read moreBiography: michaelwollny.com
Official affiliations
Michael Wollny, everywhere
- eine winterreise Michael Wollny Listen
Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XVI: Piano Night II Michael Wollny & Iiro Rantala Listen
Living Ghosts (Live) Michael Wollny Listen
Duo Michael Wollny & Joachim Kühn Listen
4 Wheel Drive II Nils Landgren, Michael Wollny & Lars Danielsson Listen
Ghosts Michael Wollny Listen
Heinrich Heine - Traumbilder Christian Brückner & Michael Wollny Listen
XXXX Michael Wollny Listen
Mondenkind Michael Wollny Listen
4 Wheel Drive Live Nils Landgren, Michael Wollny & Wolfgang Haffner Listen
4 Wheel Drive Nils Landgren, Michael Wollny & Wolfgang Haffner Listen
Oslo Michael Wollny Listen
Wartburg (Live) Michael Wollny Listen
Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic VII: Piano Night (Live) Leszek Możdżer, Iiro Rantala & Michael Wollny Listen
Out of Land (Live) Emile Parisien, Vincent Peirani, Andreas Schaerer & Michael Wollny Listen
Tandem Michael Wollny & Vincent Peirani Listen
Klangspuren (Live in Hamburg) Michael Wollny Listen
Nachtfahrten Michael Wollny Listen
Weltentraum Live (Philharmonie Berlin) Michael Wollny Listen
Weltentraum Concert Edition: Live At the Unterfahrt Michael Wollny Listen
Weltentraum Michael Wollny Listen
Wunderkammer XXL (Live) Michael Wollny, Tamar Halperin & hr-Bigband Listen
Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic I (Live) Leszek Możdżer, Iiro Rantala & Michael Wollny Listen
Don't Explain (Live) Heinz Sauer & Michael Wollny Listen
Wasted & Wanted Michael Wollny, Eva Kruse & Eric Schaefer Listen
Beyond Our Thoughts Hans Peter Salentin, Michael Wollny & Stephan Schmolck Listen
Fragile at Schloss Elmau (Live) Nils Landgren & Michael Wollny Listen
If (Blue) Then [Blue] Heinz Sauer, Michael Wollny & Joachim Kühn Listen
Michael Wollny's Wunderkammer Michael Wollny & Tamar Halperin Listen
Piano Works IX - Live At Schloss Elmau Joachim Kühn & Michael Wollny Listen
Hexentanz - Piano Works, Vol. 7 Michael Wollny Listen
Certain Beauty Michael Wollny & Heinz Sauer Listen
Melancholia Heinz Sauer & Michael Wollny Listen
Different Kinds of Stories Hubert Winter & Michael Wollny Listen
Sound of Silence Hans-Peter Saletin, Michael Wollny & Wolfgang Kriener Listen
Mondenkind (Official Video) The title piece of his first solo album, recorded alone in lockdown. Watch
Snowflake, from eine winterreise An excerpt from the new solo album, his re-imagining of Schubert’s Winterreise. Watch
Der Wanderer (Official Video) From the trio album Nachtfahrten: his most watched film. Watch
Engel, live at the Unterfahrt The trio with Tim Lefebvre and Eric Schaefer, from the Weltentraum concert edition. Watch
Hunter, with Vincent Peirani Piano and accordion, from the duo album Tandem. Watch
Out of Land: Parisien, Peirani, Schaerer, Wollny The quartet with Emile Parisien, Vincent Peirani and Andreas Schaerer. Watch
Klangspuren (Live Video) The trio live in Hamburg, from the Klangspuren album. Watch
Farbenlehre, with the Norwegian Wind Ensemble The trio with Norway’s wind orchestra, from the album Oslo. Watch
Svantetic, with Leszek Możdżer Two pianos on Krzysztof Komeda’s tune, from ACT’s jubilee concert. Watch
[em]: Das Modell His first trio, [em], with Eva Kruse and Eric Schaefer. Watch
Michael Wollny Trio at JazzBaltica 2015 A full concert, over 110,000 views. Watch
Michael Wollny Trio at JazzBaltica The trio’s full JazzBaltica set, a decade on. Watch
Wollny, Parisien, Peirani, Schaerer at JazzBaltica 2017 The Out of Land quartet in concert. Watch
Wollny, Parisien, Lefebvre, Lillinger at Leverkusener Jazztage The XXXX band in a full concert, filmed by WDR. Watch
Nocturnal City, with Christian Jost With members of the Berlin Phil, for a late-night concert of jazz and classical music. Watch
Elbjazz 2018 At the Elbphilharmonie, for Hamburg’s Elbjazz festival. Watch
New Morning, with Vincent Peirani The duo at the 2015 ECHO Jazz awards. Watch
Wunderkammer XXL, Kabinett 4 With Tamar Halperin and the Frankfurt Radio Big Band, at the Deutsches Jazzfestival 2012. Watch
With the Luxembourg Philharmonic A full orchestral concert with Vincent Peirani and Nils Landgren, Teddy Abrams conducting. Watch
Solo at Enter Enea 2017 A fourteen-minute solo set in Poland. Watch
Mr. M, with Nils Landgren and Kinga Głyk A guest spot with Jakob Manz’s band, from SUPERNOVA 2026. Watch
Jazzfest Bonn 2016 The trio at Jazzfest Bonn, playing from Nachtfahrten. Watch
The trio at the Queen Elizabeth Hall The trio with Eric Schaefer and Tim Lefebvre at the 2025 EFG London Jazz Festival. Read more
The trio at Kings Place Their overdue EFG London Jazz Festival debut, at Kings Place. Read more
Living Ghosts: an exceptional free-improv séance John Fordham on the trio’s live album, Nick Cave song included. Read more
Living Ghosts (Live) Recommended: the trio’s live album. Read more
Mondenkind Mike Collins on a solo album as long as Apollo 11’s orbit of the far side of the moon. Read more
Mondenkind Stuart Nicholson on an exhilarating solo effort. Read more
Mondenkind, reviewed Kira Grunenberg: graceful, daring, cross-genre. Read more
The trio at Kings Place Sebastian Scotney, a week before his 40th birthday. Read more
Wartburg and Oslo Jon Turney on two trio albums released on the same day. Read more
Klangspuren (Live in Hamburg) A listener’s review of the live trio album. Read more
Klangspuren Jon Turney on fifteen years with ACT. Read more
Klangspuren in concert Jazzwise on the live trio album. Read more
Kings Place fireworks The trio’s long-overdue London concert-hall booking. Read more
Nachtfahrten The Irish Times on the trio’s night-music album. Read more
Nachtfahrten MusicWeb’s jazz review of Nachtfahrten. Read more
The trio at Cheltenham 2014 The trio at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival. Read more
[em]: Wasted & Wanted The [em] trio’s 2012 album, reviewed. Read more
Between intuition and inspiration A recent conversation on improvising. Read more
Talk mit Michael Wollny Twenty minutes on stage at JazzBaltica (German). Read more
Jazz residency 2022/23 The Alte Oper introduces his season as jazz artist in residence. Read more
Backstage at the Alte Oper Behind the scenes before a concert in Frankfurt. Read more
Kongeniale Partner: the duo with Emile Parisien A short film on his duo with the saxophonist. Read more
On composing Engel He talks through the writing of one of the trio’s best-known pieces. Read more
Was ist Jazz? For the Enjoy Jazz festival: what jazz is, in two minutes (German). Read more
The history of jazz piano, part 5 An interview in a series on the history of jazz piano (German). Read more
eine winterreise, reviewed Neither Schubert made into jazz nor jazz dressed as classical music: a review of the new album. Read more
eine winterreise The album, with his own words on why Schubert’s cycle still speaks. Read more
Official website Portrait, projects, concerts, press, albums and videos. Read more
Portrait His own portrait: pianist, improviser, interested in exchange and in groups, composer. Read more
Concerts His full concert calendar, with ticket links. Read more
Projects The trio, the duos and his other bands. Read more
Albums Every album, from [em] to eine winterreise. Read more
Press quotes What the press has said, gathered on his site. Read more
The ACT Agency His management, in Berlin. Read more
Karsten Jahnke Konzertdirektion His booking agency and the promoter of the eine winterreise tour. Read more
Michael Wollny, Klavier: 3 December 2026 The Frankfurt night of the Winterreise tour. Read more
Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic: Wanderlust, 29 April 2027 With Tamar Halperin, Nils Landgren, Emile Parisien, Vincent Peirani and Andreas Schaerer. Read more
Wikipedia Born in Schweinfurt in 1978; ACT artist since 2005. Read more
Wikipedia (German) The German article. Read more
Press
- Reviews
- News & mentions
- Reference
- Praise
- Mixed
- Neutral
- Critical
Sources
- ACT Music
- Michael Wollny
- London Jazz News
- JazzBaltica
- Berliner Philharmoniker
- Alte Oper Frankfurt
- Jazzwise
- Wikipedia
- WDR Rockpalast
- Elbphilharmonie
- hr-Bigband
- Philharmonie Luxembourg
- Jazzfest Bonn
- Lausitz Festival
- enjoyjazz
- Paris Move
- Jazzfuel
- UK Jazz News
- The Guardian
- marlbank
- The Irish Times
- MusicWeb International
- The Jazz Mann
- Spotify
- Apple Music
- Deezer
- Karsten Jahnke Konzertdirektion
