Malakoff Kowalski was born in Boston to Persian parents, grew up in Hamburg and now lives in Berlin. His first solo album 'Neue Deutsche Reiselieder' was released in 2009, and the album 'Kill Your Babies - Filmscore For An Unknown Picture' was released in 2012. His first MPS album, 'I Love You', was released in 2015 - a blend of jazz, singer-songwriter and film music.Besides the many instruments that can be heard on his recordings, the piano in particular has always played a key role for Kowalski. This is also the case on his album 'My First Piano'. Ten piano pieces, about which critic Max Dax writes in the liner notes: "Leveled miniatures, recorded almost casually, small hybrids of finger exercises, pastime, aphorism and laconicism. A bold and seasoned pianist, on the border between classical and jazz."The baby photo at the piano that appears on the album cover is a chance discovery in an old family album. Kowalski set out to find the lost piano of his childhood and brought it back to Berlin after thirty years. "In my earliest childhood memories, I am curled up under the piano stool listening to my mother play Bach, Brahms, Schubert and Scriabin for me. There aren't many places or things that feel like me. Our family is scattered all over the world - I don't know it any other way. But finding my old baby piano with me, with its rounded ivory white keys, decorated soundholes and unupholstered stool, just like before, I feel a little bit at home."Kowalski also works as a film and theater composer. His stage music for "Parzival" and "Faust" recently took him to the Schauspielhaus Cologne and the Stuttgart State Theater. Kowalski's piano music can currently be heard in cinemas in Lisa Langseth's film "Euphoria".
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