Solo Jazz Concert and Conversation with Billy Test

We are pleased to invite you to an evening full of great jazz music:

Solo Jazz Concert and Conversation 

with Billy Test, WDR Big Band

Wednesday, March 13, 2024 | 7.30 p.m.
Altes Pfandhaus | Kartäuserwall 20 | 50678 Cologne

Pennsylvania native Billy Test is a pianist, composer, arranger, and educator. Currently holding the piano chair in the Grammy award winning WDR Big Band in Köln, Germany, Billy splits his time between Europe and the United States, maintaining a busy schedule as a performer, composer, and educator. Billy’s piano playing blends the joys and sorrows of jazz and blues with the finesse and harmonic depth of classical music. His warm touch and clear tone can roar with excitement or sigh with woe. His improvisations are always in the moment, preferring to take risks and be daring rather than play it safe.

Billy grew up in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, later relocating to the New York City area to follow his musical ambitions. During his time on the New York scene, he performed at Carnegie Hall, The Village Vanguard, JALC, Smalls, and Mezzrow with artists including, Dave Liebman, Miho Hazama, Joe Magnarelli, Rich Perry, Joel Frahm, Tony Moreno, Marc Mommaas, Ron Horton, Michael Feinberg, and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. Beyond Manhattan, Billy has played venues including The Kennedy Center and Blues Alley in Washington, D.C., The Deer Head Inn in Delaware Water Gap, PA, and Chris’s Jazz Café in Philadelphia.

Registration information will be made available on the AmerikaHaus NRW website.

We are looking forward to a musical evening with you!