Биография

Bernward Koch is a composer and musician. His music mainly evokes a soothing and calming style, with a clearly recognizable melody from the piano, enriched with keyboards, flute, guitar and percussion. His first release, 1989's FLOWING, was successful especially in the United States including the smash hit song "Ever Returning". The second album LAGUNA DE LA VERA achieved top positions on the Billboard New Age Chart. His tracks contributed to several US-Aids-benefit compilations among others together with Bonnie Raitt, Sting and Al Jarreau. The song "Touched by Love" from the album WALKING THROUGH CLOUDS appears on a compilation by the Universal Music Group incl. Tony Bennett and Ennio Morricone. The Weber State University in Ogden, Utah recommends his music as anti stress. Many airlines around the world apply his "music against fear of flying". His track "Childhood Hour" was used in the award-winning US-movie “Shaniko”. The solo piano album MONTAGNOLA is dedicated to the German Swiss writer Hermann Hesse. Koch has earned such awards as Piano Heaven Award in England and Audiophiles Highlight Award from STEREO in Germany. In 2012 he won the cultural prize from his hometown Wenden, Germany. Koch has published fourteen albums so far, the current release (2020) is called BECOMING (myndstream/Real Music, USA). Since 2016 Koch is a member of The Recording Academy NARAS and thereby a Grammy Award voting member.