About Me
Marc Schmolling, born 1972 in Munich, Germany, studied piano at the Richard-Strauss-Conservatorium in Munich with Larry Porter, Tizian Jost and Leonid Chizhik. He continued his studies at Stanford University in California under such internationally acclaimed figures as Horace Silver, Benny Green and Steve Coleman. After graduating in 1997, he has become a much asked-for pianist and active part of the South-German jazz scene.
Beside his solistic activities Marc Schmolling regularly performs with the saxophonist Wanja Slavin as well as with the bands Hipnosis, Windstärke 4 and the Christian Krischkowsky Quintet. His debut CD „Nostalgia Soul Ship“, released in 2003 with his piano trio, with Sava Medan on bass and Bastian Jütte on drums, received much positive feedback from the press, resulting in a co-production with the Bavarian Broadcasting. In the course of his musical career, he has worked with numerous musicians such as Paulo Cardoso, Bill Elgart and many others. As a pianist, he is also part of the Munich Improvisation Theater isar148. Marc Schmolling was also longstanding singer and arranger for the A Cappella Group The Real Sixpack, with whom he has released several albums.
From 2004 until 2006, he was lecturer for jazz piano at the Freies Musikzentrum in Munich. He has toured and performed throughout Germany, Hungary, Poland, Austria, France, Czech Republic, Brazil and Taiwan and taken part in numerous festivals and concert series such as the Ostseejazz-Festival, Jazzfest München, Stuttgarter Jazztage, Jazzwoche Burghausen, Schloss Elmau and others. In Munich, he has performed among others at the Jazzclub Unterfahrt, in the Steinway Haus and in Studio 2 of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation.
Marc Schmolling moved to Berlin in September 2006 and now primarily focuses on his own projects.
