Verena Zeiner & Ziv Ravitz Duo

The Sweetness of Finitude

2022 | Sessionwork Records | Vinyl, CD, Digital


New album coming in November 2026!

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New album coming in November 2026! 〰️

Composed during Verena’s three months as
Artist in Residence Munich in autumn of 2025 at Lake Starnberg, and recorded right at the beginning of this year in the inspiring landscapes of the south of France, it will be released in November 2026 by PKmusik—the label of Greek bassist Petros Klampanis.

Verena Zeiner | piano, electronics, compositions
Ziv Ravitz | drums, electronics, compositions
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Ziv Ravitz at PAZ Atelier/Ménerbes.
Produced by Ziv Ravitz & Verena Zeiner.

With their new duo album, pianist Verena Zeiner and drummer Ziv Ravitz tell stories about the courage to lay down masks, about the strength of connection, the power of imagination, the beauty of letting things break, the commitment to pushing boundaries, the boldness in vulnerability and about faith in the process.

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Photo by Ziv Ravitz

Since 2021 pianist Verena Zeiner and drummer Ziv Ravitz play together as a duo. Zeiner is a pianist with a unique and captivating voice, blending improvised music with elements of chamber music and jazz. Ravitz is an exceptionally distinctive drummer as well as composer and a most sought-after musician in modern jazz.
Their first album The Sweetness of Finitude was released 2022.

For the album Radical Care, released 2025, the duo's sound palette has been expanded to include guitar, bass and a string trio. The pieces on this album play with the combination of contemporary chamber music compositions and improvisation. More here.

Photo: Victoria Nazarova

The musical language the two create as a duo is both sensitive and finely tuned. The individual elements – Verena Zeiner’s incredibly multifaceted playing and Ziv Ravitz’s varied rhythmic work – mesh together in a truly remarkable way. You get the sense they’ve been playing together for years. What they do excellently is charge their music with mood and emotion, transforming their pieces into captivating soundscapes that shift between gentle and fragile calmness, playful dreaminess, and dramatic notes, full of tension.
— Michael Ternai | mica

The Sweetness of Finitude


Verena Zeiner
| piano, compositions
Ziv Ravitz | drums

Recorded by David Furrer | Aurora Studios | Vienna, March 2021
Mixed and mastered by Ziv Ravitz
Produced by Verena Zeiner
Artwork by Le Monsieur Flash
Cover photo by Paul Zeiner
Video “The Wordless” by Christina Jägersberger

2022 | Sessionwork Records

We recommend ordering directly from the artist, as this is the most artist-friendly way to purchase the album. We are happy to send it as vinyl, CD or download code!

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We recommend ordering directly from the artist, as this is the most artist-friendly way to purchase the album. We are happy to send it as vinyl, CD or download code! 〰️

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Die musikalische Sprache, die beide als Duo erschaffen, ist von einer sehr feinfühligen und zugleich sehr fein abgestimmten Art. Die einzelnen Elemente – Verena Zeiners ungemein facettenreiches Spiel und Ziv Ravitz` variantenreiche Rhythmusarbeit – greifen auf wirklich wunderbare Weise ineinander. Man gewinnt fast den Eindruck, als würden sie schon Jahre lang zusammenspielen. Was die beiden wirklich ganz exzellent beherrschen, ist, ihre Musik mit Stimmung und Emotionen aufzuladen. Sie verwandeln ihre Stücke in fesselnde Klangbilder, die zwischen sanfter und zerbrechlicher Ruhe, verspielter Verträumtheit und dramatischer Note spannungsgeladen hin und her pendeln.
— Michael Ternai | mica
The musical language the two create as a duo is both sensitive and finely tuned. The individual elements – Verena Zeiner’s incredibly multifaceted playing and Ziv Ravitz’s varied rhythmic work – mesh together in a truly remarkable way. You get the sense they’ve been playing together for years. What they do excellently is charge their music with mood and emotion, transforming their pieces into captivating soundscapes that shift between gentle and fragile calmness, playful dreaminess, and dramatic notes, full of tension.
— Michael Ternai | mica

Photos: Paul Zeiner (live), Ian Ehm (Studio)

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Radical Care