Nocturnal Blues

The night has served as a muse to artists for centuries. Pianist, composer, and improviser Matteo Myderwyk adds a chapter to that tradition with his album Nocturnal Blues. The subtle sound-poetry of the French composers Debussy and Ravel serves as a source of inspiration, as does “the blues” as an emotion: the quiet, melancholic nighttime hours of our inner world.

Classically trained Myderwyk is closely related to popular neo-classical piano music. He is winning over a worldwide audience with his tender, playful, and above all atmospheric piano music. The album Nocturnal Blues is a tribute to his great hero Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh wrote that the night seemed to him “much more alive and richer in color” than the day: “as if the night were not black, but blue, violet, and green.” The idea that the night has a deeper color and a richer language than the world of everyday life lies at the heart of Myderwyk’s album. In this concert, dream, stillness, and refinement come together.