Mathias Claus


Mathias Claus is a German jazz pianist and composer.

Education

Education as jazz pianist at Musikhochschule Hamburg, studies with
Dieter Glawischnig, diploma with excellence in 1989. Further
studies with Ray Santisi at the Berklee College of Music in
Boston plus classical studies with Shigeko Takeya and others.

Career

Mathias Claus started collaboration recordings with musicians of the
young cyber jazzscene worldwide. He contributed as guest player on
numerous artists' CDs worldwide, workin with many artists such as
Peggy Morris, Nigel Hitchcock, Laurence Cottle, Sue Maskaleris,
Daniel Martina, Fillipo Bertacche and others. Later on he started
playing live concerts with his global musicians organising common
tours and concerts in Germany with American artists Peggy Morris,
Eyran Katsenelenbogen, or Misha Steinhauer from Moscow.
In 2003 he gained international attention being interviewed by allaboutjazz.com
and awarded by Bundesfonds Soziokultur e.V. for his international
collaboration activities.
After gaining a teaching faculty 2004 in Braunschweig he started a career
as jazz solo pianist. Recently he performed with some of the leading
German jazz solo pianists at the 1. Hamburger Jazz Solo Piano Summit on
16 June 2007 for the NDR broadcast Hamburg and shared stage
with players like John Taylor and Eliane Elias and was piano sideman
for American vocalists like Gayle Tufts, Peggy Morris and Rachel Gould.

Awards

Grant from GEMA Germany; Süddeutscher Rundfunk broadcast Music Competition laureate with his jazz quartett; finalist of the international jazz competition Hoeillarts in
Belgium.
His music accompanying an animation movie for children won the Adobe Design Achievement Award 2007 in San Francisco.