Biography
Clemens Christian Poetzsch is a German pianist and composer. His music brings together classical composition, jazz improvisation and electronic textures. He studied piano and composition at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.
A founding member of the German-Lebanese quartet Masaa, Poetzsch performed with the group from 2012 to 2018. He began releasing his own solo music in 2016. His album Remember Tomorrow (2019), released on Neue Meister, received nominations in five categories at the Opus Klassik awards. Noctunes (2026), his fifth solo album, offers a personal interpretation of the nocturne, drawing on memories of cities where he has performed.
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His concert career has taken him across Europe and Asia, including appearances at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie and the Philharmonie Brno. Alongside his solo work, he collaborates with artists including Reentko Dirks and Sven Helbig and composes for film, theatre and ballet. His full-length ballet score Abschied (2013), written for piano, string quartet, electronics and choir for the Sorbian National Ensemble, draws on his Sorbian family heritage. For Rammstein – XXI Klavier (2015), he arranged selected Rammstein songs for piano and performed all the recordings.
Discography
Solo albums:
People & Places (2016)
Remember Tomorrow (2019)
The Soul of Things (2021)
Chasing Heisenberg (2022)
NOCTUNES (2026)
Collaborations and other recordings:
Poetzsch/Lauer/Rolnik: Live in Straubingen (2012)
Slavicon (2012)
Masaa: Freedom Dance (2013)
Peuker8: Resound (2013)
Masaa: Afkar (2014)
Rammstein – XXI Klavier (2015) — piano arrangements and performance
Peuker8: Influx (2018)
Clemens Christian Poetzsch Plays Sven Helbig (2020)
Collateral Flow (2024)
Selected film scores:
Nationalstraße (Národní třída) (2019)
The Swimmer (short film, 2022)
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.