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Thomas Wallisch & Oli Bott
(Germany)
co-cponsored by The Max Mueller Bhavan, Kolkata
THOMAS WALLISCH & Oli Bott: Their co-operation
started in 1996 while both were at Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA. They play like what they are - and
it's groovin'.
"Their outstanding interplay makes the music a meditative listening experience of special quality." Akustik
Gitarre
"Vibraphone and guitar throw musical ideas like game balls to each other, quote and encourage the other. Their
music is - instead of showing off with muscles of improvisation – is more quiet and eye-blinking inspired by Gary
Burton, Pat Metheny or Bill Frisell. But still they are both original and follow old virtues and groove with impressive
melodies." Die Welt, Germany
"Oli Bott and Thomas Wallisch prove with their CD "Unknown Beauty" that it is possible to create
a hard groove with supposedly soft instruments." Musicoutlook
Thomas Wallisch: At the age of twenty, following his classical
guitar studies with Mladen Krizancic at the conservatory of Klagenfurt/Austria, Thomas Wallisch went to Berklee
College of Music, Boston where he graduated three years later with diploma in ”professional music” (summa cum laude).
Among numerous honors granted to him he also received the prestigious”Jimi Hendrix Award” for guitarists at Berklee
College of Music.
Oli Bott studied vibraphone and composition also
at Berklee College of Music with teachers such as Gary Burton and Bob Brookmeyer graduating 'summa cum laude'.
He works as a vibraphonist and composer in Berlin, and has received several scholarships by the City of Berlin,
got composition commissions for his own jazz orchestra and has performed concerts for radio and TV in Germany and
abroad. He has won prizes at competitions such as NDR-Musicprize for Jazzconductors, Leipziger Improvisation Competition,
Europ Jazz Contest and the Wayne Shorter Award, USA. |
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