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Mik Keusen
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About Me
Pianist and composer from switzerland.
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”.
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This page was last updated on 2011-06-26.
