Marlies Debacker in conversation with Thomas Gläßer

The Belgian pianist Marlies Debacker has been an unmissable part of Cologne’s contemporary music scene. Debacker represents a new generation of musicians who devote themselves equally to the art of improvisation and to composed music, skilfully combining the two. In conversation with Thomas Gläßer she talks about how to develop the ability to imagine sound in your head and then realise it in practice, about physicality and not knowing while you are playing and about contradictions that repeatedly have to be resolved.