Dietmar Fuhr

Dietmar Fuhr (2018)

Dietmar Fuhr (* 1964 in Sigmaringen ) is a German double bass player of the modern jazz .

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Fuhr only started making music at the age of fourteen (together with his brother) and initially played rock music on the guitar . He soon got into jazz . He switched to the double bass via the electric bass. He studied at the Cologne University of Music and in New York. As part of the Cologne jazz scene, he was active in the groups of Niels Klein , Florian Ross , Nils Wülker , Christoph Eidens , Martin Sasse and Roger Hanschel . With Saad Thamir, Bassem Hawar and the Belgian pianist Fré Desmyter he formed the Ensemble Ahoar , which released the album Between Rivers in 2007 and won the national Creole - Global Music Contest . He also played with musicians such as Andy Miles , Dejan Terzic , Nils Wogram , Richie Beirach , David Liebman , Kurt Rosenwinkel , Martin Lejeune , Markus Türk and Antonio Faraò . Concert tours have taken him to numerous European countries, to Israel, New Zealand, Indonesia and Azerbaijan.

He is also on the road with Oliver Steller and appears in a “multi-bass orchestra” with Sebastian Gramss , Christian Ramond , Achim Tang and Robert Landfermann . He also plays in a drum-less Trio 120 with his brother Wolfgang Fuhr (tenor saxophone) and Florian Ross.

Fuhr has been teaching jazz double bass at the Cologne University of Music since 2009 .

personal data
SURNAME	Fuhr, Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German modern jazz double bass player
DATE OF BIRTH	1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sigmaringen