CREDENTIALS
"Manuel Engel is a talented pianist who breathes life into the future of improvised music."
Andy McKee (Mingus Big Band)
"I have performed with Manuel Engel in many musical situations and I would like to give him the highest recommendation at this time."
George Garzone (The Fringe)
"Manuel Engel possesses that rare, intriguing combination of intellect and soul."
Doug Weiss (Al Foster Quartet)
"Manuel Engel is a talented pianist who breathes life into the future of improvised music."
Andy McKee (Mingus Big Band)
"I have performed with Manuel Engel in many musical situations and I would like to give him the highest recommendation at this time."
George Garzone (The Fringe)
"Manuel Engel possesses that rare, intriguing combination of intellect and soul."
Doug Weiss (Al Foster Quartet)
PERFORMANCES AND AWARDS
Manuel Engel is a producer, composer, pianist, educator and recipient of a Chrysler Jazz Award / Billboard World Song Contest Winner / Excellence in Songwriting Award / IndieSuisse Album of the Year Award / Swiss Music Album Charts 1st place (The Ghost Orchestra)
Has attended the Swiss Jazz School in Bern and the New School University in NYC - living nearly a decade in NYC, US - worked as a freelance musician
Toured in Europe (Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Lithuania) including performances at Festivals such as: Montreux Jazzfestival (Chrysler Jazz Awards), Stars of Sounds Openair Festival, Pod Ring Festival, Vilnius Jazzfestival, WE Festival, Schaffhauser Jazzfestival, Festival Chorus des Hauts-de-Seine, Festival m4music, Jazzwerkstatt Festival, Openair St. Gallen, Lakelive Festival and many more. U.S. performances in New York, USA: Jazz Standard, Smalls, Knitting Factory, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, B.B. King (Showcase for MBK Entertainment), BAM at Fort Greene Park, Village Soul Festival, Top Events of Switzerland at Lincoln Center (Kaplan Penthouse) and Washington DC (John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts)
COLLABORATIONS
Meta Marie Louise / Puts Marie / Binney_Engel / StudeYeah / Henry Strongbox
Engel has worked with Chico Freeman, Richie Beirach, Hans Koch, Karsh Kale, Lucien Dubuis, Craig Holiday Haynes, Pepe Lienhard, George Garzone, Robert Morgenthaler, Lionel Friedli, Doug Weiss, Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson, Hamid Drake, William Parker, Kevin Chesham, David Binney, Ainsley Burrows, among others.
Manuel Engel is a producer, composer, pianist, educator and recipient of a Chrysler Jazz Award / Billboard World Song Contest Winner / Excellence in Songwriting Award / IndieSuisse Album of the Year Award / Swiss Music Album Charts 1st place (The Ghost Orchestra)
Has attended the Swiss Jazz School in Bern and the New School University in NYC - living nearly a decade in NYC, US - worked as a freelance musician
Toured in Europe (Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Lithuania) including performances at Festivals such as: Montreux Jazzfestival (Chrysler Jazz Awards), Stars of Sounds Openair Festival, Pod Ring Festival, Vilnius Jazzfestival, WE Festival, Schaffhauser Jazzfestival, Festival Chorus des Hauts-de-Seine, Festival m4music, Jazzwerkstatt Festival, Openair St. Gallen, Lakelive Festival and many more. U.S. performances in New York, USA: Jazz Standard, Smalls, Knitting Factory, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, B.B. King (Showcase for MBK Entertainment), BAM at Fort Greene Park, Village Soul Festival, Top Events of Switzerland at Lincoln Center (Kaplan Penthouse) and Washington DC (John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts)
COLLABORATIONS
Meta Marie Louise / Puts Marie / Binney_Engel / StudeYeah / Henry Strongbox
Engel has worked with Chico Freeman, Richie Beirach, Hans Koch, Karsh Kale, Lucien Dubuis, Craig Holiday Haynes, Pepe Lienhard, George Garzone, Robert Morgenthaler, Lionel Friedli, Doug Weiss, Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson, Hamid Drake, William Parker, Kevin Chesham, David Binney, Ainsley Burrows, among others.