Laurenz Gemmer

Laurenz Gemmer is a pianist and lecturer for piano works at the music academies in Leipzig, Rostock, Freiburg, Cologne and Zurich. He is a composer and musician for the Tanztheater Braunschweig for the choreographer Gregor Zöllig.

Studied with Paulo Álvares, Florian Weber and Hubert Nuß at the music academies in Cologne and Osnabrück, training in new music, jazz and classical music. As a scholarship holder of the Kunststiftung NRW, he studied Carnatic music in Chennai, Madras.

At the Grotrian Steinweg Wettbewerben in Weimar, he won the Audience Award, prizes for song and improvisation.

With Shifting Grounds by the ZZT der HfMT Köln, he began his collaboration with dance and developed it further with the dancer Photini Meletiadis in the duo SubContinentiousCycles.

Current projects range from experimental music with performance (Das Klangregime, Das Ende der Liebe) or electronics (Turm der Liebe) to the contemporary repertoire of new music (Trio GeradeUngerade). Gemmer is a guest of renowned venues such as the Kölner Philharmonie, the Konzerthaus Dortmund and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.

musical collaborator and composer for

• Die Kunst des Staubsaugens