Quentin Tolimieri

Quentin Tolimieri is an American pianist, composer and improviser whose work connects contemporary composition with experimental and freely improvised piano performance. After many years in New York, he moved to Berlin in 2018.

He has explored the instrument as a source of resonance and unstable timbre, not only through conventional keyboard playing but also through the direct manipulation of strings and preparations. His solo recording Prepared Piano (Creative Sources, CS401) was made without overdubs in August 2016 and includes pieces organised around bowed, muted, plucked and other contrasting modes of action. Later projects such as Monochromes extend his interest in the piano's sonic identity; Inner Lines (CS709) also appears in the Creative Sources catalogue.