Select your language

"With her highly individual approach to give even the softest tones in the piano spectrum enough room to unfold, Gisela Horat has to be considered one of the most interesting pianists in contemporary jazz".

Jazz-Portrait by Tom Fuchs, Piano News 5/2020

Concerts

The international concerts of the Gisela Horat Trio in the UK and Germany are supported by Pro Helvetia.

Thursday, 16 May 2024, 20:00 Uhr Jazz-Initiative Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Gisela Horat Trio

Friday, 14 June 2024, 20:00 Uhr Jazzkeller Bauchhund in Berlin, Gisela Horat Trio

Saturday, 15 June 2024, 20.00 Uhr Campus Jazz in Leipzig, Gisela Horat Trio

Saturday, 29 June 2024 on Flores, Gisela Horat Piano Solo

Saturday, 13 July 2024 21:30 Uhr Lava Jazz in Ponta Delgada, Gisela Horat Piano Solo

Gisela Horat Trio

Interview of Gisela Horat by Erik Van Damme in April 2022

Interview of Gisela Horat by Tomasz Furmanek, London Jazz News in March 2022

CD Release 2023

I have released my two new CDs on 1 September 2023 . Both are available at Bandcamp and other music or streaming services.   

"Waldgeist" - the newest video for our CD

"Geheimnis" - the second video for our CD 

Erzählen 

"Erzählen" has been recorded with the Gisela Horat Trio and Christine Stöckli as speaker in November 2022 and was released in September 2023. You can order the digital version and signed CD versions at Bandcamp.  

...In her trio and in collaboration with the author Christine Stöckli, she develops stories in wide arcs of suspense on the album "erzählen", which has an excellent sound and lingers in the listener's head for an agonisingly long time. No light fare, that much is certain. (Tom Fuchs, Piano News 6/23)

erzaehlen

Gisela Horat Volume 2

Gisela Horat Volume 2 is my solo CD release for 2023.  You can order the digital version and signed CD versions at Bandcamp.  

…..Gisela Horat calmly contrasts flowing melodies of subtle beauty with neo-tonal techniques such as shimmering cascades of sound in the string box, thus evoking immense arcs of tension......... One thing is certain: after Irene Schweizer, Gisela Horat is the most impressive Swiss keyboard artist - a sensational discovery. (Sven Thielmann, Fono Forum 2/24)

gisela horat vol 2

CD "2020"

 It would be hard to review a bad year in a more impressive way (Piano News 5/2021)

ANGST Experiencing fear consciously, being oppressed and worried by it without panic, and sometimes only perceiving it subliminally or even repressing it. An everyday and disturbing feeling.

Im Hamsterrad In the hamster wheel of excessive demands and stress; do we manage to break out or do we suffer a burnout?

Weiter Warten: Keep waiting, that's what we all do and hope that the keep waiting will soon be over.

 Unterdrückte Wut: Suppressed anger needs a lot of self-control, takes up all of one's time and is difficult to get rid of. 

Erinnerungen an Isaac Albeniz (Asturias): Remembrance of Isaac Albeniz (Asturias) is a light, carefree childhood memory, of music that accompanies me to this day.

 

Videos of the Gisela Horat Trio

Live Stream Jazz iG Göppingen from 14 July 2021. 

Concert excerpt "Unterdrückte Wut" from 8 October 2021 at the Weltecho in Chemnitz.

Gisela Horat Piano Solo

"Gisela Horat Vol. 1" 

Formal simplicity, songlike conciseness, eruptive moments, emotional atmospheres and an awareness of reduction combine to create a meditative trip. (Pirmin Bossart, kulturtipp 15/20)

You can order it directly from me for 25 CHF, or digital versions are available from Bandcamp, Spotify or other streaming services.