Music Spotlight – At TEDxHamburg, mesmerizing piano sounds

At TEDxHamburg, conservatory-trained composer and pianist Omer Klein gave a performance inspired by Beethoven’s letters and an interest in flipping tradition on its head— playing folk melodies “like a folk musician wouldn’t.” Says TEDxHamburg: “Omer Klein is an exciting, daring pianist. He dazzles masterfully between textures and dynamics, dancing between seemingly-unrelated musical worlds.”

Klein played a Beethoven work and three songs of his own from his new album, Fearless Friday, a work for which he was recently nominated for an ECHO Jazz 2016 award.

Watch his whole performance below:

Original article here

(Photo: TEDxHamburg)

Sarah Ebling

          Sarah Ebling holds a professorship in Accessibility Studies at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and is a senior researcher at the University of Zurich. Her research focuses on natural language processing in the context of disabilities and special needs, specifically, sign language technology and automatic text simplification. Her groups’ contributions involve artificial intelligence techniques with a strong emphasis on user involvement. She is involved in various international and national projects and leads a large-scale Swiss innovation initiative entitled „Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies“ (2022-2026; https://www.iict.uzh.ch/).