Jazz pianist, composer and producer Cornelius Claudio Kreusch has worked with some of the world´s finest Jazz musicians like Herbie Hancock, Bobby Mc Ferrin, Salif Keïta, Kenny Garrett, Bobby Watson, Greg Osby, amo. Originally classically trained, he was graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston, (BA), and from Manhattan School of Music in New York City, (MM) studying Jazz piano. Described by The Boston Globe as „a pianist, who sounds like no one else“ and by the Jazzman Magazine as „Revelation“ Cornelius Claudio Kreusch has toured as a soloist and with various groups all over the world performing at prestigious jazz venues, like the Montreux Jazz festival or New York´s Blue Note as well as at Classical series and concert halls like the Philharmonic halls in Munich, Barcelona, etc… His more than a dozen Cds under his own name, like the successful records, „Live at Steinway Hall (BMG), Black Mud Sound (enja) or Scoop (act) have recieved high critical acclaim and prestigious awards. Called a “A genius talent, a nimble-fingered sorcerer, a creative iconoclast with fearless virtuoso ability and wanton alchemy of sound” (France Ouest) Cornelius Claudio Kreusch works also as a producer and is founder of his own label MUSICJUSTMUSIC. „As a pianist, Cornelius has the hand-span and muscle to hammer out percussive storms at daunting tempi, the indipendence to turn oblique runs upside-down or inside-out – and the self-assurance to use technique for clarity and accumulated, insidious effect rather than overwhelming display…“
