DeutschJulius Windisch is a German jazz and improvisational musician (piano, synthesizer, composition). Windisch grew up in Offenburg, where he played in the school big band until graduating from Schillergymnasium. From 2014 to 2017, he studied at the Bern University of the Arts with Django Bates and Colin Vallon before continuing his master’s studies at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, the Jazz Institute Berlin, and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, completing them in 2019. In 2015 and 2016, he was a Lyra Foundation scholarship recipient in Zurich. In recent years, Windisch has performed across Europe with his own bands. With his quartet—including saxophonist Sölvi Kolbeinsson, bassist Felix Henkelhausen, and drummer Max Santner—he released the album Chaos on Hout Records in 2020, receiving positive reviews. In 2021, he introduced “exciting and richly colorful music” on Deutschlandfunk with his trio, featuring Igor Spallati and drummer Fermín Merlo. Their blend of “lyrical, fragile moods and powerful, energetic passages” was highly praised. That same year, they released the album Pros and Cons on Double Moon Records. Additionally, Windisch recorded Collective Consciousness with Fabian Dudek, Dan Peter Sundland, and Moritz Baumgärtner. He also founded a trio with Leif Berger and Simon Jermyn, which was expanded for a 2021 tour with cellist Elisabeth Coudoux, resulting in the album Live at Loft (Bandcamp, 2022). In 2023, he toured in a quartet with Coudoux, Jermyn, and drummer Mariá Portugal. With his band Immerweiter (featuring Pascal Klewer, Sofia Eftychidou, and Marius Wankel), he released the album In Its Own Pace (Boomslang Records, 2023). Windisch has also performed with Peter Bruun, Kresten Osgood, Philipp Gropper, Bernhard Meyer, and Tristan Renfrow. His playing can be heard on Moritz Stahl’s album Traumsequenz (2024).