Reis Demuth Wiltgen

REIS DEMUTH WILTGEN is thrilled to announce their upcoming 2025 release in collaboration with the LUXEMBOURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, featuring saxophonist JOSHUA REDMAN and the multiple Grammy Award winning composer and conductor VINCE MENDOZA. After their four studio albums, REIS DEMUTH WILTGEN is also preparing for a live recording at Cotton Club in Tokyo Japan in the spring of 2025. This upcoming trio release “LIVE IN JAPAN” is planned for 2026 by their label CAM JAZZ. Pianist Michel Reis, bassist Marc Demuth and drummer Paul Wiltgen are three of Luxembourg’s most prominent jazz musicians. They formed the REIS DEMUTH WILTGEN Trio in 1998 while still in high school and performed on a regular basis in and around Luxembourg for a couple of years. The trio reunited in 2011 eager to share their experiences and new music. Their self-titled first album was released on Laborie Jazz to widespread critical acclaim. Since the release, the band has toured extensively throughout the world and has appeared at major international jazz festivals. The band's sophomore album "Places In Between" was recorded in New York City and released on Double Moon Records in 2016. The trio is now signed to the Italian label CAM JAZZ for whom they have recorded two albums: “Once In A Blue Moon” (2018) and their latest release "SLY". In 2016, the trio started collaborating with world-renowned saxophonist Joshua Redman. Redman says that he fell in love with their music from the moment he heard them when his own quartet was playing a double bill with REIS DEMUTH WILTGEN at a festival in France. He has been playing several of the trio's compositions with his own bands. In March 2018, the trio toured in Europe with Joshua Redman as a featured guest. This tour included a performance at the Philharmonie Luxembourg featuring the music of REIS DEMUTH WILTGEN arranged for the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg by multiple Grammy Award winning composer and conductor Vince Mendoza. The trio recorded this repertoire in 2022 with Redman and Mendoza at the Luxembourg Philharmonic. The album will be released on CAM Jazz in 2025. The trio’s recent work also includes a commission by Esch22 European Capital Of Culture, for which REIS DEMUTH WILTGEN premiered a project called Synaesthesia during a sold out 10-show run in Luxembourg in November 2022. In collaboration with multimedia artist and filmmaker Emile V. Schlesser, the trio created a walk-in installation featuring holographic 360-degree video projection surrounding the audience; an audiovisual experience, where music is translated into color, shape and movement in a fully immersive environment.