Brad Mehldau:Creativity in improvised & composed music. "Kirill Gerstein invites" @HfM Eisler Berlin

The great jazz musician, composer & pianist Brad Mehldau discusses the creative process in improvisation and composition. Brad’s suggested to subtitle the first part of the session: “Blurry tonality in Radiohead, Schumann and Rachmaninoff“. It is followed by a Q&A between Brad Mehldau & Kirill Gerstein. This event took place on May 27th, 2020, as a part of KIRILL GERSTEIN INVITES - a weekly online forum with leading thinkers hosted by #eislerlab at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. For more information: To register for upcoming seminars, please go to: Special thanks to Jacco Prantl () for video/audio postproduction & editing. Topics: 0:30 introduction 3:10 What do you hear this chord as? (dominant or root?)