The new project “minimalBACH” by piano duo duo imPuls (pianists Sebastian Bartmann and Barbara Bartmann) is dedicated to the Preludes by Johann Sebastian Bach from the first volume of the Well-Tempered Clavier, which are placed in the new, exciting listening context of minimal music. The aim of composer and pianist Sebastian Bartmann is to use “minimalBACH” to focus on the musical essence and effects of the individual Preludes by J.S. Bach, to extract their radiance and to shed new light on them with the techniques of minimal music.

Bartmann’s award-winning compositions have been performed in many European countries as well as in the USA. As a versatile composer, he is reluctant to commit himself to one style, and thus multifaceted compositions for various formats in the fields of media, film and drama as well as instrumentations for the concert are created. In addition to highly acclaimed piano duo works, he has also written orchestral works, most recently the “symphony of perfect taste” for the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt/Oder, as well as “second hands - ein musikalisches Ausbruchsmärchen” for the second violins of the Munich Philharmonic and “Last Letters - p.s. voices before and beyond” for the Blenheim Singers in Oxford, based on the death sentences of British personalities from history.