Philip Weyand
Biography Philip Weyand
Philip Weyand
was born in Mannheim in 1997.
After classical piano lessons at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz, he later became interested in jazz and improvised music. He completed his jazz piano studies with Rainer Böhm at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts in 2023 with top marks.
He is currently completing his jazz piano master's degree in Cologne at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz with Hubert Nuss.
As a composer, his quartet project Myosotis (debut album 2022 on unit records) is dedicated to conceptual work with various rhythmic and harmonic structures in combination with elements of free playing.
His work as a sideman in various projects and orchestras has taken him all over Germany and to China and the USA, among other places. In 2022 he studied as a DAAD scholarship holder at the Escola de Musica da UFBA in Salvador, Brazil. Since 2023 he has been a scholarship holder of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg.
