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

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

As a place where creativity meets groove and spirit, he discovered jazz after growing up in Hannover around classical church music.
Improvisation always plays a key role for telling the musical stories of the moment.
His acoustic compositions often result out of musical exploration, finding 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.
In 2016, first EP Take.Off was self-released (music).

After returning to Germany in 2019, his piano compositions were commissioned for the mixed media projects Bauhaus-Expedition and 100 Saiten Beuys (video) in 2022.

Since 2012, Lennart Smidt Trio is performing and recording in different combinations, such as 2019 with Benson Itoe (ebass, Cameroon/Groningen) and Yusuf Ahmed (drums, London) (video).

Though mainly jazz-pianist, interdisciplinary work had started 2015 with experimental opera and performances together with film director Bernardo Zanotta in Groningen, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Nantes.
It continued in Berlin with workshops by Tristan Honsinger, and co-hosting the curated multidisciplinary impro jam “big bouncing charlie”.

During the pandemic in 2021, he led the production of Rüdiger Bierhorst album "Im Zentrum des Kreisels" as producer/arranger/sounddesigner, summing up the German singer-songwriter’s work of the last decades.

Smidt’s workshop and teaching concept Jazz as creative community music conveys a healthy way of learning music, that very much adapts to individual levels and experience of students. He regularly gives workshop for fellow pianists and teachers, on how to play un-written music, accompany songs, and the basic thinking concepts of Jazz and Improvised Music.
Currently teaching piano at University of Hildesheim.

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