Education

Education as jazz pianist at Musikhochschule Hamburg, studies with
Prof. Dr. Dieter Glawischnig, diploma with excellence in 1989. Further
studies with Ray Santisi

Ray Santisi

Ray Santisi is an American jazz pianist and educator. He performed with people such as Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Mel Torme, Irene Kral, Natalie Cole and many others. The Raleigh, N.C...

 at the famous Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known primarily as a school for jazz, rock and popular music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including hip...

 in
Boston / USA 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

Nigel Hitchcock

Nigel Hitchcock is an English jazz saxophonist.-Biography:Hichcock began to play alto sax at age 8. In 1982 he and his elder brother Clive joined the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. After one year Nigel took the lead alto chair for the next 5 years...

, Laurence Cottle

Laurence Cottle

Laurence Cottle is an electric bass guitarist and composer.-Career:His solo recordings have been mostly in the jazz and jazz-fusion vein, with such notable releases as Five Seasons, Laurence Cottle Quintet Live and others....

, 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

Eyran Katsenelenbogen

-Biography:Eyran Katsenelenbogen is a master pianist who has performed throughout the world. In 2009, he has released his tenth solo album, titled 88 Fingers, with a concert tour that included venues in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East....

, 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

Eliane Elias

Eliane Elias is a Brazilian jazz pianist, arranger, vocalist and songwriter.-Biography:...

 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 (by Axel Brötje) won the Adobe Design Achievement Award 2007 in San Francisco.