The Berlin - based piano trio around the pianist, composer and arranger Ekkehard Wölk ( with Johannes Fink on bass and drummer Andrea Marcelli) has been active for many years now, having done celebrated festival performances, at the Bachfest Leipzig, the MDR Music Summer and the Kurt - Weill festival in Dessau, among many others.

After three previous albums released in Germany and Italy and several radio performances for Deutschlandradio Kultur, RBB and BR Munich , this year the EKKEHARD WÖLK TRIO released their new CD 'THE BERLIN ALBUM' ( Jazzwerkstatt Records, 2011), with many original compositions as well as brilliantly colourful jazz - arrangements of themes by well - known German composers'.

The trio's own pieces are often inspired by motifs and images from literature, films and also experiences of nature which are transposed into the dynamically interactive and exciting musical world of powerful contemporary jazz improvisations!