“I see Elusive Beauty as the first great work of what for me is a new aesthetic timescale and style of composition – as the birth...
What is beauty? Artists and scientists have been tormenting themselves with this question throughout the ages. Is it regularity? Naturalness? Perfection? Pianist and composer Sebastian Schunke...
The album Elusive Beauty by Sebastian Schunke and Diego Pinera – together with reedsmeister Benjamin Weidekamp, violist Yodfat Miron and cellist Boram Lie – takes music...
In his remarkable 2018 album, Despertando the drummer Diego Pinera has shifted his sights slightly to more tradition-based repertoire. However, it is impossible to keep the...
Diego Pinera’s drumming always seems informed by a composer’s instincts and sensibilities, attributes immediately discernable in his new (March 2016) recording combining his percussive genius with...
Drummers sometimes make the most interesting bandleaders, especially when they gently nudge the other musicians in the ensemble into developing contrapuntal responses to odd meters and...
“Among the young musicians of today is a pianist who is known not only for his pianism, but also for his soul-searching intellect and unquenchable spirit....
Among the young musicians of today is a pianist who is known not only for his pianism, but also for his soul-searching intellect and unquenchable spirit....
Pianist and composer Sebastian Schunke appears to have discovered a sense of mortality. This is the ultimate level of maturity that any artist—or any human being...
“Sebastian Schunke brings with Life and Death a new and very intimate touch to his music – piano solo. For the first time Sebastian plays part...