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Philipp Rüttgers

About Me

Hello
My Name is Philipp Rüttgers (1981) and I am a Pianist from Germany currently living in the Netherlands, Arnhem. I make music for a living and finished my Master of Music last year at the ARTez Conservatorium.
I also participated at different Competitions Nationaly and Internationaly and won some prices including the 3rd Prize at the International Jazz Improvizacija Piano Solo Competition in Vilnius 2008 (LT).
I learned to broaden up my horizon of music, loosing my ego and finally to distinguish between the need of music and technical abilities. I appreciate to be a pianist, composer, arranger and living the continious, exploring, up and down side life of a Jazz Musician. I play(ed), work(ed) and learn(ed) from/with lots of musicians like (in no particular order):
Etienne Nillesen, Yonga Sun, Angelo Verploegen, Jan Wessels, Wiro Mahieu, Bert Joris, Rob Horsting, Bart Tarenskeen, Simon Nabatov, Jasper van't Hof, Jan van Duikeren, Stefan Karl Schmid, Taeke Stol, Olaf Hollmann, Tony Lakatos etc... I played on different festivals like: East of Eastern Festival Nijmegen, Spring Jazzfestival Arnhem, Nijmegen Music Meeting, Bayerisches Jazzweekend Regensburg...
I recently started teaching Minor Piano Classes at the Artez Conservatorium Arnhem.
Thats it for now, I'll keep up with new information....

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/22/2006
Band Members:

Orka Quartet

Stefan Schmid - Saxes
Philipp Ruettgers - Piano
Jakob Kuehnemann - Bass
Yonga Sun - Drums

Unnamed Trio

Olaf Hollman - Sax
Philipp Ruettgers - Piano
Etienne Nillesen - Drums

Katharina Maschmeyer Quartet

Katharina Maschmeyer - Sax
Nils Pollheide - Guitar
Philipp Ruettgers - Laptop Rhodes
Jens Otto - Drums

Influences: Since it is not so easy to distinguish between conscious and unconscious influences I try naming a few in random order:
Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans, Danilo Perez, Art Tatum, Keith Jarrett, John Taylor, Jason Moran, Bela Bartok, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Johannes Brahms, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Charles Lloyd, Brad Mehldau, Simon Nabatov, Jasper van't Hof, Tilmar Junius, Rob van Bavel, Bud Powell
Record Label: Unknown Major
Type of Label: Major

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