Francesco Tristano

Performing Prokofiev’s piano concerto with a big orchestra one evening, then working the mixing desk at a techno club the next: it’s no problem for Francesco Tristano. »My first impulse in music is always the rhythm,« says Tristano; it’s this driving force that lends his compositions their pulsating groove, and his Bach interpretations a percussive quality. With his album »Tokyo Stories«, the pianist, producer and composer from Luxemburg reinvents himself once more. Tristano refuses to be pigeonholed, and his latest programme provides new proof of his enormous versatility.