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Mik Keusen
Pianist and composer from switzerland.
About Me
Mik Keusen, pianist and composer from Bern, Switzerland, started
taking classical piano lessons when he was eight years old. Later, he
studied jazz piano and educational science at the Lucern University of
applied Sciences and Arts. At that time, he has also started getting
acquainted with Don Liʼs concept of “Tonus- Music”, which leads to a
direct collaboration with the musicians Sha and Zimoun, which in turn
influences the music of the bands “Banryu” and Zimoun NÅ“.
In 2003 he established the quartet “Mik Keusenʼs Blau”, and in 2004 their
„outstanding sound concept“ received the “Axell and Max Koch-
Foundation Award“. In 2005 Mik composed the music for a multimedia
production, commissioned by the Paul Klee Center. During the same
year, in collaboration with the Swiss Radio Company DRS II, he
produced the widely recognized debut album “Mik Keusen - Blau”. In
2006 he launched the trio “DKS” with Gareth Davis (GB) and Julian
Sartorius (CH), with whom he performed live at the “Expozice Nové
Hudby” (Festival for New Music) in Brno (CZ).
In 2010, with a scholarship from the SSK and the City of Bern, he spent
six months in Varanasi/India, where he studied the reed organ and tabla
with Manju Sundaram, Sri Jamuna Ballabh Bhaiyan-ji Gujrati and Sagar
Gujrati.
Since 2004, Mik has been working as a freelance pianist and composer
at the „Progr – Zentrum für Kulturproduktion“ (Center for Cultural
Production) in Bern.
In spring 2011, Mik Keusenʼs Blau launched their second album “Nalu”.