THE CONCEPT
Andreas Woyke is a constantly searching artist. Grown up as classical pianist he opened his mind with growing curiousity and frankness to diverse musical styles – jazz at the first place but also rock, soul, funk or ethno. These influences are the source for his own compositions which become more and more part of his classical concert recitals. However, he always kept loyality to classical music with all it's epoques. He likes to combine works of one or more classical composers with own compositions and jazz and to let the audiences experience a completely new adventure of listening music by the particular effect of both components to each other.
„I strongly believe that we listen to 200 or more year old music different today than the people of that time. This is because our ears are already used to newer music like modern classical or other modern styles. At the same time our „tools“ have developed. Of course, there are still historical instruments that give us the opportunity to interprete music from Bach or Mozart like it probably sounded in their time. But today we have modern instruments as well – like the modern concert grand piano and of course the endless variety of electronic instruments like sythesizers – that open completely new perspectives for us in our attitude to music which is timeless in it's basic essence.
In the Mozart-year 2006 Woyke performed the project „Mozart and Jazz“, in 2007 a recital program from Bach to Brahms – also combined with his own music.
In his project „The Four Elements“ each piece of Brahms' op. 119 is anticipated by an own improvised introduction by Woyke.
On his Solo-CD „Braiding Bach (Ars, 2008) he combined piano works by Johann Sebastian Bach with his own compositions. 2009 he designed a recital program due to the Haydn-anniversary with Sonatas and Variations by Joseph Haydn and his own compositions.