Artist
Ekkehard Wölk
Biography
Ekkehard Wölk is a German pianist, composer and arranger working across classical music and jazz. Born in Schleswig in 1967, he studied musicology in Hamburg and Berlin and classical piano in Hamburg and Lübeck, graduating in 1994. His training in jazz improvisation included work with Walter Norris, Dieter Glawischnig, Richie Beirach, John Taylor, Fred Hersch and Barry Harris.
Based in Berlin since 1995, he has developed a particular interest in live accompaniment and original scores for silent cinema. His work includes music for films by G. W. Pabst, F. W. Murnau and Ernst Lubitsch. With the trio Blanc et Noir, he combines piano, cello and percussion in improvised responses to film.
On Andrea Marcelli’s The Invisible Child, he performs in the Bach-inspired opening duo and in the three Blanc et Noir improvisations recorded with Kristoff Becker and Marcelli in Berlin in 2016.