Keisuke Matsuno

Keisuke Matsuno (Japanese 松野圭介, Matsuno Keisuke, * 1985 in Berlin ) is a German jazz and improvisation musician ( electric guitar , electronics) living in the USA .

Live and act

Matsuno, who grew up in Berlin and discovered the electric guitar at the age of twelve, initially studied from 2005 at the Liszt School of Music Weimar , from 2007 to 2009 at the Lucerne School of Music ; in 2010 he obtained another master’s degree from New York University . He then completed postgraduate training at the Weimar Academy of Music. During his training he had lessons from Frank Möbus , Brad Shepik , Ralph Alessi , Vijay Iyer , Mark Turner and John Scofield . He worked in the German and Swiss music scene a. a. in the Lucerne Jazz Orchestra ( Don't Walk Too Far , 2009), with Charlotte Greve , Elias Stemeseder , Hans Tammen , Timo Vollbrecht and in the supposed Krautrock band Trio Schmetterling (with Alexander Binder, Jan Roth ), in the USA with the Jim Black Guitar Quartet. With Lars Graugaard Matsuno presented the duo album Invisible (clang). Currently (2018) he plays in the Julian Erdem Quartet. Matsuno taught at New York University.

Trio Butterfly: Globus ( Traumton Records , 2013)
Charlotte Greve, Keisuke Matsuno, Simon Jermyn, Tommy Crane: Wood River (Edition Longplay, 2015)
Trio Butterfly: Merry-Go-Round (2017)
Lars Graugaard & Keisuke Matsuno & Moritz Baumgärtner : Crumble (2017)