Daniel Philipp Stotz

biography

"I prefer to play my own music, at the improvisation-concerts the music is coming spontanous right in the concert, that is the reason why every concert is unique"

Daniel Philipp Stotz - piano - composition

My great musical master:
professor Rudolf Kehrer.
He said to me, when he heard me playing my own music:
"If you would play Beethoven
like that !"

born 1960 in Switzerland, started to play piano with 6 years. From beginning tendency to improvise and compose music. With 13 or 14 first filmmusic composition. Composing mostly I learned by myself alone. I studied the old and new masters (see below).

from 1983 musicstudies in Austria Graz and Vienna, classic and jazz, later mainly classical music.

1986 master course with the fantastic professor Rudolf Kehrer

(from the vom Tschwaikowsky concervatory in Moskow), from him I got the strongest musical and technical impulse. His abilities to inspire and his musicality in expressing something with every single note is unique. He is not only a fantastic artist, but also an excellent teacher.

Prelude op. 90 for piano Solo
till now about 2000 pieces and compositions in different styles

More instructions and inspiration I got through the great prof. Markus Schirmer (Austria), and the fantastic Vladislav Sendecki (Poland) and some more.

Many thanks to my first piano teacher Misses Keller and also many thanks to Gerald Karfiol who had so much patience with me. Also thanks to Misses prof. Wolf and Mr. Helmut Iberer in Austria. Also thanks to Prof. Rolf Plagge. Thanks also to the great example Mahatma Gandhi!

Prof. Markus Schirmer after a concert in Switzerland, about 1992

interresting pages about Gandhi:
http://www.gandhiserve.org

Since 1999 living in Czech republic, here a lot of concerts a beneficial koncerts

allready many years my music is in use for tv-productions

The piano improvisations and compositions are based on the knowledge of a lot of composers and differnent music styles, like:

Händel, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Bizet, Verdi, Puccini, Debussy, Ravel, Albeniz, Prokoview, Rachmaninoff, Skrijabin, Dvorák, Smetana, Janacek, Gershwin, Herbie Hancock, Art Tatum, John Coltrane, Keith Jarett, Karel Ruzicka, the fantastic Richard Bona, Joe Zawinul, traditional Indian music, southamerican music. For filmmusic inspired me most: the great master Ennio Morricone.

In last times I discovered again a very big old master: G.F. Händel!

The program of my concerts is allways unique and specially adapted to the event, therefore no concert program is twice the same.

Vladislav Sendecki in his former studio in Switzerland, about 1991