Uli Rennert was born 1960 in Frankfurt/Main (Germany). During the eighties he studied piano, trombone and composition with teachers like Albert Mangelsdorff, George Gruntz, Harald Neuwirth, Helmut Iberer, Rob Franken, and Peter Herbolzheimer. 1984 he won the international piano/keyboard-competition of the U.S. Keyboard Magazine in cooperation with Berklee College of Music. 1987 diploma ‘summa cum laude’ at the University of Music and dramatic Arts in Graz.

Besides his work as a pianist, Rennert is focusing on synthesizers and live-electronics as expressive musical instruments, and he explores the area between composition and improvisation.

Current Projects and Bands

• Von den Göttern weiss ich nichts  (Concerning the Gods, I have no means of knowing) – music for mezzosoprano, live-elektronics and instruments in small and variable settings after words by Robert Gernhardt, Erich Fried, Pablo Picasso, Martin Luther and others; with Sophie Rennert, Jörg-Martin Willnauer, Klaus Gesing, Réka Nagy, Peter Herbert, a. o.
• Project S  features music for synthesizer, clarinet, double-bass, stringsextet, and live-elctronics.
• Project T with Peter Kunsek (cl), Phil Yaeger (tb), Frank Schwinn (guit), Gregor Hilbe (drums) — music by Duke Ellington, Henry Mancini, Benny Goodman, Cole Porter, and Uli Rennert
• Project M with Peter Kunsek, Klaus Gesing, Gerald Preinfalk (cl) — music by Thelonious Monk, Hugh Martin, and Uli Rennert
• jbbg (Jazz Bigband Graz)

Current CDs

• Project S Rennert, Kunsek, Herbert, Linus-Ensemble: Seven Superfluous Serenades (Pan Tau X Records)
• jbbg — “Urban Folk Tales” (ACT)
• Live in Vienna — Rennert/Gesing/Herbert
• Project T — Kunsek, Yaeger, Schwinn, Hilbe & Rennert play Ellington, Mancini, Porter, Goodman & Rennert (Pan Tau X Records)
• Project M — Rennert, Kunsek, Gesing, Preinfalk play Monk and more on Clarinets and Piano (Pan Tau X Records)
• jbbg — “Electric Poetry & Lo-Fi Cookies” (Intuition/Schott Music)
• jbbg — “Joys & Desires” the music of John Hollenbeck, featuring Theo Bleckmann (Intuition/Schott Music)
• Songlines — Bałata, Kalnein, Rennert, Tang, Hilbe (TCB)
• Datteltiger — Pan Tau X feat. Ernst Reijseger (Pan Tau X Records)

Influences

Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Thelonious Monk, Joe Zawinul, Ahmad Jamal, Anthony Braxton, Ornette Coleman, and the works of Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Vinko Globokar.

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