The pianist Giotto Roussies half French, half Austrian, was born and raised in a community of artists in Vienna As a child he travelled a lot through Europe before receiving his jazz education in Portugal by a Jazz Master Educator named Ze Eduardo and beginning his career as a pianist at the early age of 14 Even before his studies at the Musikhochschule in Cologne, he toured Europe with the Baby Jazz Band, for whom he also worked as a composer and arranger.