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Artist
Thijs Cuppen trio
1+ albums
jazzpiano
about
Thijs Cuppen was born in 1976 in Deurne, The Netherlands. He started playing classical piano at the age of four, and developed a fascination for jazz music while studying psychology between 1994-99. He studied jazz piano at the Amsterdam Conservatorium between 1999-2003 and was twice a finalist at the famous Dutch Jazz Competition. Thijs currently leads his own trio, plays piano and fender rhodes in the Susanne Alt Quartet, is in constant demand as sideman throughout the Netherlands, played on several european festivals and co-leads a popular weekly jazz session in Amsterdam. Pianist Thijs Cuppen makes music that doesn’t want to be pigeon-holed. He belongs to no genre, does not want to be trendy, but reveals himself in his debut CD ‘Homeground’ as a poet-storyteller with feeling for drama and a pianistic idiom very much his own. Cuppen is known for his work in saxophone player Susanne Alt’s quartet, with whom he recorded three albums, performed several times at the North Sea jazz festival, but builds here a surprising and personal musical home with a remarkably precise and subtle trio. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
