Joel Lyssarides is Sweden's biggest up-and-coming piano star at the moment. Look forward to a unique meeting with lyrical trio jazz at the very highest international level at Kedelhuset during Vinterjazz 2024.

Recordings by the pianist, born in 1992, are already among the most listened to in European jazz; on Spotify alone he has reached well over 50 million plays. And yet these enormous numbers are not the result of any calculation, audience targeting or crowd-pleasing on the part of the pianist.

He explains: "As happy as I am that many people obviously like my music a lot and want to listen to it again and again, the creative impulse always comes from within me. Me and my piano, they are at the center of my musical world.”

Joel's ACT debut “Stay Now”, the pianist's third album, is a dazzling and vivid insight into that world. One thing is absolutely clear: the time has come for Lyssarides to step onto the international stage.
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Joel Lyssarides is Sweden's biggest up-and-coming piano star at the moment. Look forward to a unique meeting with lyrical trio jazz at the very highest international level at Kedelhuset during Vinterjazz 2024.

Recordings by the pianist, born in 1992, are already among the most listened to in European jazz; on Spotify alone he has reached well over 50 million plays. And yet these enormous numbers are not the result of any calculation, audience targeting or crowd-pleasing on the part of the pianist.

He explains: "As happy as I am that many people obviously like my music a lot and want to listen to it again and again, the creative impulse always comes from within me. Me and my piano, they are at the center of my musical world.”

Joel's ACT debut “Stay Now”, the pianist's third album, is a dazzling and vivid insight into that world. One thing is absolutely clear: the time has come for Lyssarides to step onto the international stage.

Joel Lyssarides is not yet thirty, so the things he has already achieved musically are quite staggering: he has played countless concerts either solo or with his trio; he has collaborated with jazz, classical, blues and pop artists such as trombonist Nils Landgren and singer Viktoria Tolstoy, including her current album “Stations”…

But he has also worked with the YouTube phenomenon "Dirty Loops" and with the great Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter. And despite Joel Lyssarides' obvious and impressive versatility and adaptability, jazz is the very core of his work.

The first spark came from records by Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk and others, which were played in the home of his Swedish-Greek parents. Then came the music of Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett and Gonzalo Rubalcaba.

Lyssarides studied music in Stockholm and Rome, and it was not long before recognition came in the form of numerous national and international jazz awards. In just under ten years, Joel Lyssarides has received almost twenty of them, including the Swedish Composers Society's prize, the Bengt Säve-Söderbergh prize, the "Jan Wallander prize" and in 2019, aged just 26, Musician of the Year from Sveriges Radio....

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