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„Brilliant instrumentalist!“ (Gitarre und Bass, Jul 2009)„Highly promising and very much worth listening, his solos are true gemns.“ (Andreas Polte – Archtop Germany, Dec 2008)
„Kessler’s debut is a thunderbolt“ (Andreas Schmitz, Dec 2008)
Robert Kessler is guitarist, composer and teacher. Contemporary jazz, world music and pop are melting together in his music. Born in 1984 he studied jazz guitar at the Conservatory of Music „Hanns Eisler“ (the later „Berlin Jazz Institute“) with Manfred Dierkes and Kurt Kurt Rosenwinkel. In private studies he intensively engaged with classical guitar literature, flamenco, Brazilan and acoustic guitar music. He participated in workshops with Mark Whitfield, Aaron Goldberg, Marc Dressler, Chris Potter and Hank Jones. In 2006 he started the Robert Kessler Group, which – next to the duo Glücksspiel – builds the focus of his musical and compository output. In 2008 he released his debut album „Jasmin“ which was nominated Archtop Germany’s „album of the year“. Besides his work as a bandleader and composer he is a very demanded sideman in the fields of jazz, rock, pop, soul, brazil, flamenco, theatre- and musical productions, as well as with concerts and tours throughout Germany and Europe. Since 2010 he has got a teaching assognment for guitar at the Berlin College of popular Arts (hdpk) and at the state music school Berlin-Zehlendorf.
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