Kurt Rosenwinkel

Kurt Rosenwinkel is an American guitarist, composer and bandleader born in Philadelphia on 28 October 1970. He studied at Berklee College of Music, leaving in his third year to tour with Gary Burton. He played with Paul Motian, Joe Henderson and the Brian Blade Fellowship, and recorded albums for Verve such as "The Enemies of Energy" (1996), "The Next Step" (2000) and "Heartcore" (2003). His live album "The Remedy" (2008) was recorded at the Village Vanguard in New York. In 2016 he founded the label Heartcore Records, which has released "Bandit 65" (2019) and "The Brahms Project". He also released "Caipi" (2017) and teaches at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin.