Christoph Spendel

German jazz pianist and keyboard player who is equally at home with the bebop tradition, crossover fusion and European classical music. Born on 19 July 1955 in Bytom, Poland, he is also a music journalist, and teaches jazz and pop music at the Music Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany. Spendel died on November 7, 2025 during a concert in Kronberg, Germany.

Spendel became famous working with the band artist 1762438 in the 1970s, and in the 1980s he was able to establish his name world wide with his own projects. He has worked with many famous musicians from the German and international jazz scene - musicians like artist 297020, artist 252611, artist 270339, artist 253774, David Liebman, artist 122381, Bill Evans and many more. For the Goethe Institute he undertook many international tours in Canada, Israel, Scandinavia and Turkey.

In the 1990s he spent a few years in New York as band member of artist 613112. As career highlights he counts performances at the Philharmony in Berlin, a TV production in Switzerland together with artist 37735 and artist 349576 and a piano performance for the German piano manufacturer Schimmel at the NAMM Show in Los Angeles. In 1997 he produced the composition [r=3446432] for the radio station WDR. In the same year, he was invited as solo piano artist to the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Since 1997 he is also a member of the piano duo Jazz Meets Classic together with artist 2364294. He also works in a duo together with the guitar player artist 804299 and leads the Christoph Spendel Electric Band.