Andreas Pientka Tentet
Biography Andreas Pientka Tentet
Andreas Pientka
Andreas Pientka grew up at the largest canal junction in Europe, between former coal heaps, power plant towers and industrial ruins. Early on he feels a strong attraction to music, starts learning to play the guitar and quickly realizes that something is missing. Where's that groove, that deep, organic hum he feels inside?
He realizes that the bass provides him with those missing elements. The end of the search for the right instrument is also the beginning of a new, much more profound journey: the perfect tone, your own musical language and personal development - for Andreas Pientka these things have been inextricably linked ever since.
He begins his studies at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and is taught by John Goldsby, Dieter Manderscheid and Robert Landfermann. In the years that followed, Pientka, who describes himself as a traditionalist when it comes to music, constantly seeks and tinkers with the transformation of tradition into modernity. After all, modernity without tradition? Jazz without a story? After all, that would be like the Ruhr area without coal mines, New York without jazz and Andreas Pientka without the double bass. It just doesn't work.
During his studies, Pientka always had new opportunities to test the limits of his instrument. He becomes an integral part of the Federal Jazz Orchestra, writes for his own trio, goes on tour with pop bands and plays on every stage that can bear the weight of him and his double bass. Encounters with musicians from different genres challenge Pientka anew, allow him to work on his playing and open up new perspectives for him. It is only logical that precisely these new perspectives open up his latest field of research. What would music be without Mozart, Brahms or Beethoven? And what would the restless Pientka be without taking on the task of exploring the precision and sound aesthetics of classical music?
But what always remains for Pientka is jazz - whether as a technical field of research, an explosive area for experimentation or a philosophical treatise. The best thing about it, he says, is that everyone is allowed to be who they are and what they want to be. The only thing that counts is to keep moving forward and to find your own, very personal language.
