Christoph Spendel

German jazz pianist and keyboard player who is equally at home with the bebop tradition, crossover fusion and European classical music, born 19 July 1955 in Bytom, Poland. He became famous working with the band "Jazztrack" in the 70's and in the 80's he was able to establish a name world wide with his own projects. He has worked with many famous musicians from the German and international Jazz scene - musicians like Albert Mangelsdorff, Charlie Mariano, Wolfgang Schlüter, Randy Brecker, David Liebman, Jeremy Steig, Bill Evans and many more. For the Goethe Institute he undertook many international tours in Canada, Israel, Scandinavia and Turkey. In the 90's he spent a few years in New York as band member of "Special EFX". To his career highlight he counts performances at the Philharmony in Berlin, a TV-production in Switzerland together with Lee Ritenour and Don Grusin and a piano performance for the German piano manufacturer Schimmel at the NAMM Show in Los Angeles. In 1997 he produced the order composition "3446432" for the radio station WDR in Israel and USA. In the same year, he was invited as solo piano artist to the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Christoph Spendel is teaching Jazz and Pop music at the Music Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany. Since 1997 he is member of the piano duo "Jazz meets Classic" together with Ratko Delorko, he works in a duo together with the guitar player Michael Sagmeister and leads the Christoph Spendel Electric Band.