Mathias Kunzli

Hailing from Switzerland, multi-disciplined drummer/percussionist and composer Mathias Kunzli has become ubiquitous in the New York City and Los Angeles music scenes. He currently resides in Pasadena, CA. As a teenager he became the drummer for the Swiss Youth Jazz Orchestra, received two scholarships from Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music and moved to the United States. Kunzli’s desire and ability to adapt to a wide range of musical styles have enabled him to tour extensively in six continents and he has appeared in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls, arenas, and festivals including Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Royal Festival Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, Outside Lands Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, and many more. National TV appearances in the US include: Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Colbert Report, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and Good Morning America, Late Late Show with James Corden, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers. Besides having recorded on over One hundred and Fifty albums and countless film scores, Mathias released “Playground” and “A Lyrebird’s Wish” under his own name. Kunzli’s original compositions have been licensed to multiple TV shows. As a drummer and percussionist he has had the chance to collaborate with artists as varied as Regina Spektor, Moby, Lauryn Hill, Yo-Yo Ma, John Zorn, Kimbra, Rihannon Giddens, Vieux Farka Toure, Hal Crook, Jamey Haddad, Yanka Roupkina, Theodosii Spassov, Bakithi Kumalo, Savina Yannatou, The Paul Winter Consort, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Matt Dariau, Frank London, Gina Gershon, Keyhan Kalhor, Mary Wilson, Steve Gorn, Howard Johnson, Brooklyn Rider, Steff La Cheffe, Erika Stucky etc.