Cork Midsummer Festival: Hauschka finds the key to creative music

In advance of his Cork concert, Hauschka tells Ed Power about his quest for uniqueness and his work on the soundtrack for Patrick Melrose.

It was in a rainy corner of Ireland that Volker Bertelmann received one of his best reviews. He is still moved by the memory. “I was playing a festival in a small church,” recalls Bertelmann, aka experimental piano player Hauschka, referring to an appearance at Clonmel Junction Festival in 2016 (at Old St Mary’s COI church).