Dirk Maassen

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Dirk Maassen (2014)

Dirk Maassen (born February 28, 1970 in Herzogenrath ) is a German composer and pianist .

Life

Maassen grew up in Herzogenrath, attended elementary school in the Straß district and, until 1989, the municipal high school . After graduating from high school , he studied general electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen University . At the age of ten he received piano and organ lessons . In the 1980s he experimented in the field of electronic music . In the 1990s he went on concert tours with a group of musicians who called themselves "In Contact". With her he produced two CDs . At the same time he was working on a music project called "Unknown Vision". At the end of the 1990s he left the music scene to work in his profession as a software developer .

In 2011 he returned to the music scene as a composer for solo piano music and started his first solo piano tour through Europe in autumn 2016 . He contributed the score to the short film Crossroads (2015) . He had 551,553 monthly listeners on Spotify in March 2020 . Dirk Maassen lives in Ulm . After a two-year collaboration with Cargo Records, Dirk Maassen has been exclusively under contract with Sony Classical since July 2019 .

Musical works (selection)

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Ocean
  DE 78 02/07/2020 (1 week)

Studio albums

  • 2014: grace
  • 2014: The Sitting Room Piano (Chapter I)
  • 2014: The Sitting Room Piano (Chapter II)
  • 2015: One Night in Cologne
  • 2015: The Sitting Room Piano (Chapter III)
  • 2015: Zenith
  • 2016: The 8 Pianos Project
  • 2017: The Wind and The Sand
  • 2018: Avalanche
  • 2020: Ocean

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IMBb: Crossroads (2015) accessed on September 3, 2016.
  2. ↑ Last.fm : Dirk Maassen - Biography accessed on August 22, 2016.
  3. ↑ Chart sources: Germany
personal data
SURNAME Maassen, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Herzogenrath