Hungarian-born crossover jazz pianist Norbert Kael has always been interested in both classical and jazz music. After graduating at the Liszt Academy of Music, Norbert auditioned at Berklee World Scholarship Tour and received the highest scholarship to Berklee College where he had the opportunity to study jazz with such great musicians as Laszlo Gardony and Joe Lovano. After moving to New York, Mr. Kael diversified his musical skills by learning from such masters as Seymour Lipkin and Matti Raekallio on the classical side as well as Kenny Barron on the jazz side.

Kael founded the Jazzical Trio to create a unique fusion of jazz and classical music. At Opus Jazz Club, the Trio performs with Tessa Souter, a hugely experienced singer and composer blessed with wide-ranging vocals and a post-bop sensibility, through which she filters sounds from West Africa, South America, the Caribbean and Andalusian Spain. Raised in London, based in New York, she has won acclaim for her honeyed contralto and the spare, elegant way she puts it to use.