MIK KEUSEN

Mik Keusen works as an accomplished pianist, composer and educator in his Atelier 161 at „Progr“, a center for cultural production in Berne, Switzerland. He started taking classical piano lessons when he was seven years old. As a teenager he felt strong needs to a personal and musical liberation and started to experiment with Jazz and Rock-Music. During this time the urge to musical self-realisation became a strong guide-line. Driven by that, he decided to study jazz piano and educational science at the Lucern University of applied Sciences and Arts. During this period he has been introduced to the Indian classical music and felt immediately a deep wish to learn more about that mystical and suptle music-system. In conjunction with that, he has also started getting acquainted with the concept of „Minimal Music“ and Don Li’s concept of “Tonus-Music”, which led to a direct collaboration with the musicians Sha (Nik Bärtsch’s read more...