Philip Zoubek

Philip Zoubek is an Austrian pianist, improviser and composer born in Tulln in 1978 and based in Cologne. He studied jazz piano in Vienna and Cologne and developed a language that extends conventional piano technique through preparations, the interior strings and electroacoustic approaches. His work includes both acoustic improvisation and the use of analogue synthesis to explore resonant, unstable and gradually changing sound.

He has collaborated with improvisers such as Wilbert de Joode, Frank Gratkowski, Tony Buck, Paul Lytton, Louis Sclavis, Xavier Charles and Tom Rainey. Zoubek's projects range from small improvising groups to composed and multidisciplinary performances, and he has curated the Facetten series at LOFT Cologne. He received the WDR Jazz Prize for composition in 2020.

On Creative Sources, Philip Zoubek is credited on sator-rotas (CS109), excerpts from anything (CS192), Die Trockene Familie (CS290), Musik (CS658), Hellerau (CS694) and Two Movements (CS769). His credits move between acoustic piano, prepared piano and Moog synthesizer.