Mathias Claus
Mathias Claus ( born May 15, 1956 in Waiblingen ) is a German pianist - composer of contemporary jazz and music producer.
Life
About his father, a church organist with a penchant for improvisational performance practice, Claus came early in contact with the music. He first began a classic study of music education for piano. For specialization in jazz piano playing and the arranger was followed by courses of study at the Berklee College of Music with Ray Santisi. Early music prizes, recordings, radio and television, as well as concerts in neighboring European countries favored his further musical studies. He moved to the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg, where he received his diploma degree in 1989 with Dieter Glawischnig, with distinction in the field of jazz and jazz- related music. Here he also studied classical piano at Shigeko Takeya. To date, Claus jazz piano taught at the local music school of Braunschweig.
Work
After building his own studio Mathias Claus produced CDs worldwide with renowned musicians of the young cyber jazz scene, primarily in the United States. He worked among others Peggy Morris, Nigel Hitchcock, Laurence Cottle, Sue Maskaleris, Daniel Martina, Fillipo Bertacche, and many others. A Innovation Award of the Federal Funds Soziokultur ev for his transatlantic project Cyber Friends (CD plus Germany Tour ) as well as international attention followed ..
In 2004 he was appointed as a lecturer in jazz piano at the Municipal Music School in Braunschweig, where he among other things, the jazz piano scholarship row of Brunswick Gertrude Fricke Foundation for talented young jazz piano student initiated.
Since 2004, Claus heavily focused on the art of the solo game. One of the highlights so far is to participate in the 1st Hamburg Jazz Solo Piano Summit on 16 June 2007 at the studio of the NDR Hamburg.
Further concerts he completed recently with international artists such as Eliane Elias, the hr -Bigband, Eyran Katsenelenbogen, but also classical music stars as Nina Corti and Zhang Hai'ou.
As a composer, he was commissioned compositions, among others of the College of Fine Arts in Braunschweig. He also wrote a series of notes for piano popular music and was also involved in recording the NDR, SDR, SWR, ERF, and ZDF.
Awards
Mathias Claus was a fellow of GEMA, a prize winner at the state competition popular music of the South German Radio Baden Württemberg with its own jazz quintet and a finalist at international jazz competition Hoeillarts in Belgium. His music for an animated film for children ( with Axel Brötje ) won the 2007 Adobe Design Achievement Award in San Francisco.