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....