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Axel Schwintzer

Born in Cologne, Germany, not long after Keith Jarrett played his legendary Köln Concert in the same city, Axel Schwintzer has started to play the piano at the age of 10. He studied mostly classical music at first, and later switched primarily to Jazz and improvised music. After completing a master's program at the University of Bonn, Germany, where he majored in Political Science and English Linguistics, Axel received a scholarship to study at Boston's Berklee College of Music, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 2004. In his studies, he concentrated on performance and composition in various styles. After graduating from Berklee, Axel lived in Boston for two and a half years, playing throughout New England with various bands such as Cheek to Cheek, Alley Blues, or the Gaku Murata Quartet, and teaching piano at the Merry Melody Music Academy in Norwood, Massachusetts

Uncommon Sense

By Axel Schwintzer

Label: Armored Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Leaps & Bounds; Vorfreude; Pretty Ugly; Second Guess; Caveat; No Brainer; Airborne; Wishing Well; Tout Compte Fait; Fast Track.

Axel's Axiom: Uncommon Sense

by Edward Blanco
January 18, 2012

Since graduating from Boston's Berklee College of Music in 2004, German-born pianist Axel Schwintzer has kept busy teaching, playing throughout New England, performing at the prestigious Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, and playing various venues in the New York City area since relocating there in 2007. Axel's Axiom may not be familiar ...