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Maria

A musical prodigy

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As a pianist, composer, conductress, and professor, the ECHO-nominated Maria Baptist, who spent several years in New York, counts to the most compelling artists of the young German Jazz scene.

Maria expresses her burning passion for Jazz through an exceptionally wide variety of artistic projects: piano solo, Jazz Trio, jazz piano & string quartet, and larger orchestral cooperation with Big Bands such as symphony orchestras. She is thus musically suspended from the beaten path, rather existing somewhere between Jazz and Classical.

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Maria Baptist Trio

Finest concertante modern Jazz

Without words, simply with melodies, Maria Baptist captivates her audience with her album “Gate 29” – which follows a motif of travelling –from the Blue Shore over Cloud 9, through a hectic airport (Gate 29), to the moon and mars, and back to the fog of Hong Kong (Roof Garden).

The Maria Baptist Trio plays the finest modern orchestral trio Jazz: at times highly delicate, then complex, playful, edgy, groovy, swinging, lyrical – and always with complete devotion.

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Piano & String Quartet

Jazz with Mozart, Bach & Bartók

Chamber music blends with Jazz, Bartók with Marsalis, Bach is also in the mix, shortness of breath comes at times after Schostakowitsch, made easier after Tschaikowski and Mozart, who kindly register in the subconscious, when one listens to Maria Baptist’s compositions for piano and string quartet.

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Jazz Orchestra

ECHO-JAZZ Nomination for the Jazz Orchestra Album of the Year 2012

Modern Big Band Jazz, in the tradition of Maria Schneider and Carla Bley, that celebrates the emotional essence of big cities: all that which is incorporated by Maria Baptist’s music for Jazz Orchestra– particularly though a wonderfully individual sound, who dresses the impulses of life in melodies.

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Events

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12.10.2013 // Maria Baptist & Budapest Jazz Orchestra // Budapest // Atrium Filmszinhaz

13.09.2013 // CD-Release Piano & String Quartet Maria Baptist, Episodes

30.08.2013 // Maria Baptist Piano Solo // Caffe Vivaldi New York City

28.08.2013 // Recording new Solo Album at Systems Two Studios New York City

20.07.2013 // Maria Baptist Trio // Luxembourg // Blues’n Jazzrallye

13.06.2013 // Judy Weiss & Maria Baptist Trio // Berlin // Quasimodo

24.05.2013 // Maria Baptist Trio // Berlin // Schlot

15.03.2013 // Maria Baptist Trio // Darmstadt // Centralstation

30.01.2013 // Maria Baptist Trio // Köln // Altes Pfandhaus

20.01.2013 // Maria Baptist Trio // Vienna // Porgy & Bess

Media

Audio & Video of Maria's Projects