SOIL MUSIC is the first single release of my new album ZAS.

Available on all music platforms on Friday 11 nov!

PYANOOK will release his new album "ZAS" on 27 January 2023 at EDEL/Neue Meister

Recorded in Oslo, Trondheim and Freiburg, the album features guests as Hakon Stene, Trondheim Voices, Joo Kraus, Etienne Abelin and many more

Trip to Italy!

PYANOOK will perform in Rome, Italy opening this year's Jazzfestival with a concert at Casa del Jazz on 06 November 2022.

https://romajazzfestival.it/programma/py

PYANOOK's newest work, 'The Human Touch', a 70-minute composition commissioned by Festival Out Of The Box will be premiered on 23 july 22 at Werk 7, Munich.

The line-up is PYANOOK, the Trondheim Voices (Norway) and the O Modernt Chamber Orchestra of Sweden.

The production will be performed 4 times on 23/24 july.

Soulful Technology is the title of Ralf's keynote at this year's jazzahead!

jazzahead!, one of the leading international music trade fairs launches their new program "Innovation in Music & Crossover Markets" with Ralf as key speaker.

Join him in Bremen on 29 April, 1.15pm

PYANOOK comes to Innsbruck, Haus der Musik for a hybrid concert (live with limited audience and livestream) on 29 march 2022, 8pm.

29 march is International Piano Day.

Ticket link follows soon.

Two concerts at Kammerfest Fredrikstad with percussion wizard Håkon Stene and award-winning vocal group Trio Mediaeval.

Ralf Schmid, piano | electronics Håkon Stene, percussion Anna Maria Friman, voc Linn Andrea Fuglseth, voc Jorunn Lovise Husan, voc

04 sept 2021 www.kammerfest.no

Orchestral Adventures at the Baltic Sea with trumpetist Joo Kraus, conductor Bernd Ruf and the Classical Beat Festival Orchestra.

27 juli 2021 Grand Hotel Atlantic, Travemünde

www.classicalbeat.de

The Center for Artifial Intelligence at Zurich's ZHAW engineering university opens with a international online ceremony on 29 june 2021.

PYANOOK will perform and talk about his latest developments.

Blue Hour Concert #01 Ralf Schmid invites DJ legend Rainer Trüby and newcomer Quintin Copper to Humboldtsaal Freiburg.

19 may 2021 www.infreiburgzuhause.de * livestream *

First live concert in 2021 (!) at Schlossmediale Werdenberg (CH) with percussion wizard Håkon Stene. The duo will perform their repertoire of last year's celebrated Midsummer Music concert.

28 may 2021 Ralf Schmid, piano | electronics Håkon Stene, percussion www.schlossmediale.ch

For a new collaboration at his SOIL MUSIC series, PYANOOK invites swiss conductor and violinist Etienne Abelin to create a new track inspired by a set of movements.

January: Wednesdays 9pm www.linktr.ee/pyanooklivestream

Returning to the Baltic, PYANOOK will perform a solo set at Art of Riga Jazz Festival.

23 oct 2020 Latvian Radio Studios, Riga (LT)

New single release ahead: PYANOOK and Joo Kraus will release their CollabTrack „Keeping the distance“ on Neue Meister beginning of October 2020.

Ralf Schmid, piano | electronics Joo Kraus, trp | vocals | beats