Eva Kruse was born the 16th of october 1978 in Hamburg/ Germany.
1998-2003 she studied acoustic bass and improvisation at the university of arts “UdK” in Berlin. She also went to Sweden to study with bassist and professor Anders Jormin in Göteborg..
1999-01 Eva was a member of the german youth-jazzorchestra “BuJazzO”, where she took classes with pianist John Taylor who inspired her into starting writing music for different bands and projects.
2002 she founded her own band with pianist Michael Wollny and

drummer Eric Schaefer and what started as “Eva Kruse Trio” soon became the highly acknowledged trio [em].
With [em] Eva has released five albums on ACT Records, toured worldwide from 2004-2014 and has won a couple of grammy´s in Germany as “best ensemble of the year”.
Other projects she has worked with include the bands Firomanum, Arne Jansen Trio and the groovecollective SOAP.  Eva Kruse is a well-known guest at the JazzBaltica Festival in Schleswig-Holstein (Northern Germany),  where she has played the session-opener-act at the beginning of her career, as well as europe-wide broadcasted concerts with [em], Firomanum, SOAP,  saxophonist Bunky Green and the JazzBaltica Ensemble. At JazzBaltica she even got to know swedish trombonist Nils Landgren with whom she toured and recorded between 2005 and 2021 with different constellations such as Nils Landgren Christmas With My Friends and the ensemble New Eyes On Baroque feat. Jeanette Köhn and the Swedish Radiochoir.

2012 Eva Kruse founded her own band and released her first album “In Water” with oboist Tjadina Würdinger, saxophonist Uwe Steinmetz, pianist Bugge Wesseltoft and drummer Christian Jormin 2014  on Redhorn Records / Naxos.  She received the “Jazz Echo” in Germany as bass player of the year.