One of Italy’s leading jazz pianists, over the course of his career he has performed and recorded with some of the most important musicians such as: Bob Mover, Lee Konitz, John Arnold, Gary Windo, Franco Ambrosetti, Franco Cerri, Stefano Bagnoli, Enzo Scoppa, Dodo Goja, Giulio Visibelli, Paolo Pelegatti, Gianni Basso, Fabio Jeger, Tony Arco, Marco Ratti among them.
It was created on 1 February 2006 by fusion of the municipalities Birkigt, Goßwitz, Könitz, Lausnitz bei Pößneck and Unterwellenborn itself which had cooperated earlier as Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Unterwellenborn.