Bio

Jazz Pianist :: Composer :: Founder of the AF MusicShop

Alexander Fitzthum is a jazz pianist and composer from Austria. He can be heard in various formations: from unheard solo performances via experimental duos, outstanding trios and more through to larger ensembles like big bands and orchestras. Furthermore he founded the AF MusicShop (www.afmusicshop.at), an innovative concept of a music shop with special attentions to restorations of (Fender)Rhodes pianos and other vintage equipment, and he is teaching Jazzpiano at the school of music ’Musikschule Region Schallaburg’ since September 2018.

Alexander Fitzthum attended the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna and played at different national and international festivals like Festival Internacional Buenos Aires Jazz, International Jazz Piano Festival Kalisz, International Ankara Jazz Festival, Jazz w Ruinach Gliwice, Jazz à la Cité, Bayrisches Jazzweekend, Zaporizhzhya Jazzy, Jazz In The Native Yards, International Jazz Festival Bishkek, Izmir European Jazz Festival, Kick Jazz, Jazz & The City Salzburg and many more. His tours already led him to Asia, Africa, South America as well as many different countries of Europe.