Bernward Koch - Filled with Light (2017)

Bernward Koch was born in January 1957 in Siegen/Westfalen, Germany. When he was 12 years, he started playing French Horn in the musical brass band of his village Wenden-Huensborn, but just a little bit later he changed to the trumpet “to be able to play more melodies”. Two years after he starts to be engaged in bass, guitar and drums. During that time he was playing in a beat-band. When he was 15 his father, an accordeon player, donated him a piano and he got his first piano lessons, but starts right now with improvisations and compositions, too.

His enthusiasm for music grew, especially for Jazz, Rock, Pop and Folk but also for classical music. In his early 20s he started studying at the music-university in cologne, meanwhile he took part (mostly together with his younger brother Christoph) in a lot of music seminars at the University of Bremen, Academy Remscheid and Schloß Weikersheim, e.g. teaching at Prof. Sigi Busch. In the meantime he played keyboards, drums and percussion in different Jazz-Rock-Bands. In 1990 for example an adventurous tournee led him and his Band The Brothers (= Pablo) to Moscow.

Besides Bernward Koch created piano-based instrumental-compositions -enriched with keyboards, flute, guitar and percussion- with a relaxing, metaphorical character and his discernible tuneful signature. 1989 he signed his first deal for an instrumetal solo-project under his own name.

With his debut-record “FLOWING” Bernward Koch has had a successful installation in the United States in 1990, when the important california radio stations THE WAVE and KKSF distinguished and popularized the record of the commonly unknown german pianist.

Tracklist:

01. Summer Anthem
02. Crystal Light
03. Free
04. That June Feeling
05. Provence
06. Treetop Glide
07. Elfin Dance
08. Evening Calm
09. Quiet Day
10. Tidal Flow
11. In Her Eyes
12. Underwater Sunbeams