Lennart Smidt
 // pianist, composer, music producer based in Berlin.
 // piano, hammond, vintage keys and crazy stuff.

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since 2009 on stage as pianist/composer/keyboarder/improviser 

As a place where creativity meets groove and spirit, he discovered jazz after growing up around classical music. His music is being built around setting moods and traveling together with the audience through time and space. As a live performer, improvisation plays a key role. His acoustic compositions often result out of musical exploration, improvising freely together, searching for truth beyond the surface, being in the never ending creative process. This work manifests both in recordings and unique live shows. First piano solo album “Boomerang” with own compositions is about to be released in 2024. On Hammond organ in his “Organic Trio” with Benson Enowben Itoe on bass and John Winston Berta on drums, the first record is about to be released in 2024. During the pandemic, he led the production of Rüdiger Bierhorst album "Im Zentrum des Kreisels", summing up the German singer-songwriter’s work of the last decades, as producer/arranger/sounddesigner. Other projects involve solo piano compositions for “100 Saiten Beuys”, workshop concepts, sound design for live theatre, sideman work for recordings and co-writing.

shared stages with Yusuf Ahmed, John Winston Berta, Marcello Busato, Giuseppe Doronzo, Paul Engelmann, Esat Ekincioglu, Johannes Fink, Benson Itoe, Julie Mbodje, Liedfett, Hiske Oosterwijk, Aleks Skoric, Lucas Uecker, Yelmur, Kussi Weiss, ...