Michel Reis

STYLE
jazz

Seduction

Capturing This Moment

Pastoral

BOOKING

Japan: Mocloud Music Group

RECORD LABEL

Double Moon Records

Mocloud Records

CAM Jazz

TOUR DATES

3.04.2020
Reis Demuth Wiltgen
CANCELLED - Vision in Musica Festival / Terni (IT)

8.05.2020
Reis Demuth Wiltgen
Duc des Lombards / Paris (FR)

Music is able to trigger very different feelings in listeners, even without support from additional visual information and without bodily contact. Music, which stimulates immediate feelings of happiness, deserves special attention.

Michel Reis has succeeded in this, and he will reach many people with his gift. A basis has already been created for this, because the compositions demonstrate an amazing melodic character. Because they are catchy on one hand, easy to understand: yes, are even "simply beautiful". But they still have a complexity, which lets the pieces created sound neither banal nor plain. Quite the contrary: crackling tension is created during the performance, which causes us to forget time.

: HAS PLAYED

Festival en Sol Mineur, Luberon Jazz, l’Olympia Paris, Les Rendez-Vous de l’Erdre de Nantes, Crest Jazz Vocal (FR), Kiochijoji Jazz Festival, Blue Note Jazz Club (JP), Montreux Jazz Festival, Cully Jazz Festival (CH), Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the 55 Bar, the Knitting Factory (US), United Islands Festival (CZ), Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival (SE), Jazz am Rhein, Jazzwerkstatt (DE), Casa Musica (PT), UK tour 2016...

: PRESS QUOTES

"What consistently comes to mind is how breathable this album is. **** " - Carlo Wolff, Downbeat Magazine

"Easy to relate to while being out of the ordinary, this is a real sensory treat.” - Midwest Record

"Reis is a musical storyteller." - Dan McCleneghan, All About Jazz

"Michel Reis is a very exceptional pianist and composer." - Joe Lovano, Grammy winning jazz saxophonist

"Tempered impressionism with mounting rhythmic suspense." - Nate Chinen, New York Times

: BIOGRAPHY

Hailed as a “tremendous pianist” by Downbeat Magazine, Michel Reis has in recent paved his way into an artist of international acclaim. Performing mainly with the Reis Demuth Wiltgen Trio and with the Michel Reis Quartet, Michel Reis has appeared in in many of the world’s most famous venues and festivals, including the Blue Note Jazz Club, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Olympia in Paris, the Casa de Musica in Porto, the 55 Bar, the Knitting Factory, the Panama Jazz Festival the Montreux Jazz Festival, Cully Jazz, Crest Jazz Vocal, OctLoft Jazz Festival, Les Rendez-Vous de l’Erdre de Nantes and many more. He has toured extensively all over the world, performing in Europe, Asia, North and South America, as well as Africa.

Michel Reis has released seven albums as a leader: A Young Mind (2005) and Fairytale (2009) for Waltzing-Parke Records, Point of No Return (2011) for Armored Records, Reis Demuth Wiltgen (2013) for the French label Laborie Jazz, Hidden Meaning (2013), Capturing This Moment (2015) and Places In Between (2016) for Double Moon Records / Challenge Int. / Mocloud Records Japan.

A native of Luxembourg, Michel Reis began studying classical piano and Jazz Piano, Composition and Theory at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg. To further his musical training, Reis moved to Boston, MA to study at Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music, obtaining first a Bachelor of Music and then a Master of Music in jazz piano and composition.

Michel Reis has performed with Didier Lookwood, Gast Waltzing, Richard Bona, Patrick Zimmerli, Jeff Ballard, Joshua Redman, Esperanza Spalding, George Garzone, Paul Wiltgen, Marc Demuth, Jonas Burgwinkel, Robert Landfermann, Stefan Karl Schmid, Niels Klein, Louis Moutin, Mauro Gargano, Jonathan Orland and many more. Besides performing, Michel Reis works extensively as a composer, arranger and orchestrator.

In 2005, Reis was a finalist in the First Moscow Competition for Jazz Performers. A year later, he took second prize at the Montreux Jazz Solo Piano Competition. Two years in the row, Michel Reis won the Export Artist of the Year award from the Luxembourg export office music:LX, in 2013 with the Reis Demuth Wiltgen Trio, and in 2014 as a solo artist.