Elias Stemeseder

Elias Stemeseder is an Austrian pianist, harpsichordist, and synthesist who works at the experimental edge of jazz and improvised music. Born in 1990 in Salzburg and classically trained, he studied in Linz and then in Berlin under teachers including Kurt Rosenwinkel, John Hollenbeck, and Greg Cohen, moving to New York in 2015. He is a longtime member of the Jim Black Trio and has collaborated with John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Ingrid Laubrock, Peter Evans, and the drummer Christian Lillinger, with whom he co-leads an electro-acoustic project. He was an artist in residence at The Stone in 2022 and won the German Jazz Award in 2023.