Thomas Kessler

Thomas Kessler is a composer, producer, and sound sculptor from Düsseldorf, Germany. He took up the piano at the age of nine, and made his first own recordings a little later with his older brother’s tape deck. In his own words: "I mostly just played by ear, started composing original pieces rather randomly for the sheer pleasure of experimenting with different sounds." After a few years of playing around in various rock-jazz and pop bands, he launched his first own 'Thomas Kessler Group' in the mid-1980s. The Nineties saw him travelling the world with Berlin’s Dissidenten, where he met fantastic soloists like alto sax virtuoso Charlie Mariano and members of the Karnataka College of Percussion. Around the same time, he started building his own studio. His solo music has since been used internationally in film and television. He began working on a variety of projects in the field of intuitively composed music. The resulting collaborations included performances and releases with great fellow musicians from bands like King Crimson, Traffic, Can, or Kraftwerk. In the producer role, he supported guitar wizards Sungha Jung and Ulli Bögershausen on some of their solo albums. The year 2020 was finally marked by the resurrection of his solo piano music: he started a series of compositions in the tradition of his 2012 album "Piano Diaries". To date, his piano pieces have reached 30 million+ streams across leading platforms. Thank you for listening!