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Michael Wollny was born on 25 May, 1978 in Schweinfurt, West Germany, is a German jazz pianist and professor. Discover Michael Wollny's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 45 years old?
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Jazz pianist
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45 years old |
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25 May, 1978 |
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25 May |
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Schweinfurt, West Germany |
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Germany
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Michael Wollny Height, Weight & Measurements
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Michael Wollny Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Michael Wollny worth at the age of 45 years old? Michael Wollny’s income source is mostly from being a successful pianist. He is from Germany. We have estimated Michael Wollny's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Timeline
Michael Wollny (born 25 May 1978) is a German jazz pianist and a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig.
Wollny took piano and violin lessons at the Musikschule Schweinfurt and at the Hermann Zilcher Conservatory in Würzburg until 1997, successfully competing in the Jugend musiziert.
He then studied at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg with Chris Beier.
From 1998 to 2002, Wollny was a member of the touring Bundesjazzorchester.
He also played in a quartet led by Hubert Winter.
Wollny's debut album was recorded with Wolfgang Kriener and Joachim Leyh.
He was a regular pianist at the Staatstheater Nürnberg and the Nationaltheater Mannheim from 1999.
Wollny has played with Heinz Sauer from 2001 both as a duo and in a quartet.
He took the artistic diploma with distinction in 2002, and the master classes diploma in 2004.
Wollny has been awarded several scholarships and prizes, including the cultural prize of Schweinfurt in 2003, and in 2005 both the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (for Melancholia with Heinz Sauer) and the Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis.
He recorded CDs as a member of the group Young Friends (Great German Songbook, 2005), with Winter (Different Kind of Stories, 2003), with Hans-Peter Salentin (Beyond Your Thoughts, Sound of Silence), and with Nils Landgren (The Moon, The Stars and You, 2011), among others.
In 2005 Wollny signed a contract with the label ACT Music + Vision on which he released several albums with his trio and in collaboration with other artists, such as Sauer and Nils Landgren.
He received the Choc de l'annee 2006 from the French magazine Jazzman (for Certain Beauty with Heinz Sauer), the Jazzpreis of the Nürnberger Nachrichten in 2007, and in 2008 the SWR Jazz Prize, again with Heinz Sauer.
In 2007 he released his first solo album Hexentanz.
The trio received Ronnie Scott's Jazz Award as Most Promising International Newcomer of the Year in London in May 2007.
He was awarded the Echo Jazz in the category Instrumentalist/in des Jahres national - Piano/Keyboards in 2010 when the prize was awarded for the first time.
In 2011, they received the Neuer Deutscher Jazzpreis (as a band, and for Wollny as the best soloist), and the Echo Jazz in the category Ensemble des Jahres national.
In 2013, Wollny received the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik for his album Don't Explain – Live in Concert with Heinz Sauer, and the Bayerischer Staatspreis für Musik.
The trio received the Echo Jazz as ensemble of the year.
Wollny and Sauer were awarded the Binding Culture Prize in 2013.
In 2014 his trio, now with bassist Tim Lefebvre, recorded the album Weltentraum, which made the pop charts.
A review in The Guardian noted "They are one of the world's great jazz-driven piano trios, and Nachtfahrten takes nothing away from this assessment."
Since 2014 Wollny has lived with his family in Leipzig, where he is a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig.
In 2015 and 2016 he was again awarded the Echo Jazz.
Recordings with Wollny have included:
In 2017, he was an artist in residence (Fokus Jazz: Michael Wollny) of the Rheingau Musik Festival, interviewed in a Rendezvous, and playing three concerts, improvising with Marius Neset in the first, with vocalist Andreas Schaerer, Émile Parisien and Vincent Peirani in the second, and finally with his trio and the Norwegian Wind Ensemble.