Daniel Stawinski
Drawing on more than 20 years of experience as a performer, Daniel Stawinski's virtuosic piano playing has been heard in a large variety of musical contexts and projects. Having received extensive training as a jazz pianist at Berlin's conservatory for music "Hanns Eisler", his insatiable curiosity and astounding musical flexibility has lead him to engage in a creative dialogue with very diverse musicals traditions: Afro-Cuban music (with Yilian Canizares, the Cuban Heartbeat Orchestra ...), Persian Classical music (Masnavi Duo), European Classical and Baroque music (Kammerjazz Kollektiv, Simone Kermes), Balkan folk music (Balkan Spirit Ensemble) among others. In this process of cross-cultural playing he studied several other instruments: Afro-Cuban percussion (conga and batá), the Persian lute called Setar, the basso continuo on the harpsichord, the tenor saxophone are just some of the instruments and playing techniques that have become part of his vast musicality.