Martin Kohlstedt - Live

Martin Kohlstedt is one of the leading composers, pianists, and producers in the fields of modern classical, instrumental music, and electronica. His music has garnered international acclaim, and he has toured the world in concert.
Both live and on his recordings, Martin Kohlstedt sets the standard for how cutting-edge electronica can blend with analog and acoustic elements from classical piano, ambient, field recordings, and score design. Kohlstedt intuitively manages to find a common form for influences from such diverse worlds and to shape them into a living entity—whether as a spectacular festival show, an introspective piano concert, a multidimensional film soundtrack, or an immersive album experience.
Kohlstedt describes his way of working as modular composition. The pieces are constantly in motion and do not follow a fixed form, even in concert. Improvisation is an essential part of the creative process, as is the courage to fail, the act of searching, and the interaction with context, space, and people.
Martin Kohlstedt has already collaborated with renowned partners such as the Gewandhaus Choir Leipzig, with artists like Ben Böhmer, Douglas Dare, Sudan Archives, and Henrik Schwarz, as well as with labels such as Warner Classics. Martin Kohlstedt performs concerts in over 30 countries, including on Europe’s most prestigious stages and at its most renowned festivals. In addition to his own compositions, Kohlstedt writes soundtracks for films, plays, podcasts, and radio dramas. Through Edition Kohlstedt, he runs his own label and fulfills his responsibility as an artist through his own reforestation project. Martin Kohlstedt lives and works in Weimar.