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Thanks for visiting my homepage. You’ll find all session videos of my latest EP “Munich Session” under VIDEOS or listen to them here. I’ve also added 4 concerts, that will happen in the summer! I hope to see many of you on these dates!
Feature film directed by Alireza Golafshan
Documentary directed by Anna Frances Ewert
Documentary directed by Misja Pekel
TV Series (Arte/BR/KIKA) directed by Niklas Weise and Christoph Pilsl
Feature film (Arte/ZDF) directed by Markus Mörth
Documentary short directed by Patrick Holzapfel
Short film directed by Moritz Binder
Short film directed by Patrick Holzapfel
Short film directed by Anil Kizilbuga
Short film directed by Anil Kizilbuga
Directed by Niclas Larsson, Cinematography by Linus Sandgren
Contemporary Dance Performance, choreography by Oliver Zahn, IWANSON International School of Contemporary Dance, Munich
Play by Sarah Kane, directed by Levin Handschuh, Akademietheater, Munich
Carlos Cipa is a Munich-based composer and pianist. He has been classically trained on the piano and studied contemporary classical composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich. During his teenage years, he started playing drums and gained experience as a member of various bands. Experimenting with different styles of music, he turned back to the piano as his main instrument, facilitating him to find his way throughout composition and improvisation, before releasing his debut »The Monarch and the Viceroy« and sophomore record »All your life you walk« on Denovali Records in 2012 and 2014. In 2019, Cipa released »Retronyms«, his third studio album that expanded his artistic approach as well as his colour palette, bringing together his background as a classically trained pianist and composer with his interest for pop, jazz and electronic music in all its diverse facets. In 2020, he released »Correlations (on 11 Pianos)« , yet again a return to the piano. It is an intuitive collection of piano solo works recorded on 11 very different sounding pianos, an album which boldly blurs the boundaries between composition, performance and procedure.
In November 2020, right after the announcement of a second shutdown in Germany due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Carlos Cipa decided to seize the moment to record in a closed venue, one in which he had always thought of filming and recording a session: the ‘Alte Kongresshalle’ in the city centre of Munich, a retro-futuristic building from the 1950s. He visited the hall with one of his long-time collaborators, director Stef Zins, and instantly felt it was the perfect atmosphere – so they set a date. In late November, they brought in a wonderful grand piano built by ‘Steingräber & Söhne’, a boutique piano manufacturer from Bayreuth, which served as the perfect instrument for the session, letting the composer and pianist transform four of his most notable upright pieces and uncover their most brilliant and pianistic aspects.
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