Michel Reis Trio
Luxembourg
2013.10.01 08:00-09:00 pm
Venue: B10 Live, North District, OCT-LOFT
Artists:
Michel Reis – Piano, Composition
Zach Brown – Bass
Peter Traunmueller – Drums
Michel Reis
Pianist and Composer Michel Reis, started his musical training at an early age. A native of Luxembourg, he began studying classical piano with Serge Bausch and Jazz Piano, Composition and Theory with Kris Defoort, Patrick Hartert, Guy Cabay and Gast Waltzing at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg.
To further his musical training, Reis moved to Boston, MA to study at Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music, obtaining first a BM and then a MM in jazz piano and composition. During his training in Boston, Reis studied, worked and performed with Joe Lovano, Danilo Perez, Dave Holland, George Garzone, Ran Blake, Frank Carlberg, Esperanza Spalding, Hal Crook and Greg Hopkins. In 2010, Reis participated in the ASCAP Foundation Workshop in Memory of Buddy Baker, led by film composers Bruce Broughton, Mark Snow, Ira Newborn and David Spear, with whom he has remained a part-time student.
As a leader Michel Reis has released four albums: A Young Mind (2005) and Fairytale (2009) for Waltzing-Parke Records, Point of No Return (2011) for Armored Records and Hidden Meaning (2012) for Double Moon Records / Challenge Records International.
Currently based in New York City, Michel Reis has performed in many of the world’s most famous jazz clubs and festivals, including the Blue Note Jazz Club, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the 55 Bar, the Knitting Factory, the Panama Jazz Festival and the Montreux Jazz Festival.
In 2005, Reis was a finalist in the First Moscow Competition for Jazz Performers. A year later, he took second prize at the Montreux Jazz Solo Piano Competition.
Zach Brown
Zach Brown, a 23 year old bassist from the Washington D.C. area, has played both with artists such as Paquito D’Rivera, Lonnie Liston Smith, Donald Harrison, Wycliffe Gordon, Benny Green, Terell Stafford and many others. After completing high school in 2008, Zach was selected as the bassist for the Brubeck Institute Fellowship Jazz Quintet in Stockton, CA. The group won Downbeat Magazine’s “Best College Jazz Group in the Country” for two years in a row. In 2009, Zach was invited to perform at “Jazz at the White House,” a nationally televised concert organized by First Lady Michelle Obama, which featured Zach, some other young D.C. musicians, Paquito D’Rivera, and the Marsalis family. Zach has performed at major national and international festivals, including Punta del Este Jazz Festival, Jazz Kaar in Estonia, Kaunas Jazz in Lithuania, Festival Cultural in Zacatecas, Mexico, Clifford Brown Jazz Fest, Telluride Jazz Festival, and the Detroit Jazz Fest, as well as venues including Blues Alley, Blue Note, Scullers, Regattabar, Kennedy Center, Yoshi’s Jazz Club, and Dizzy’s Club Coca‐Cola. Zach recently graduated from Berklee College of Music on the dean’s list.
Peter Traunmueller
Peter is a New York-based drummer and composer. A native of Salzburg (Austria), Peter grew up in a music-friendly home surrounded by lots of different instruments and recordings from Count Basie to the Beatles and many more. Playing extensively on mama’s cooking pots his parents decided to put him in the basement, along with a drumset and tons of exercises, which were given to him by his first teacher Matthias Birzer. By then all was set for a career in music. Peter studied drums privately with Peter Bachmayer and piano with Bruno Juen before he attended the Anton Bruckner Privat University where he studied with Jeff Boudreaux, Doug Hammond and Dejan Pecenko.
During this time Peter had the chance to work with well known players such as Charles Haynes, Harry Sokal, Klaus Dickbauer, Hermann Linecker, Andreas Schreiber, Peter Herbert, Tim Collins, Richard Oesterreicher, Christoph Cech and many more. He has performed with various groups at musical venues.