Kai Ortmann

Kai Ortmann (born January 31, 1978 in Schwäbisch Hall ) is a German drummer , textbook author and music school founder.

Life

Kai Ortmann received drum lessons from the age of six. He studied drums at the Los Angeles Music Academy with Joe Porcaro and Ralph Humphrey , at the vocational school for music in the Middle Franconia district with Claus Heßler and took part in the pop course at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater .

With the band Stone The Crow he released two albums as a co-composer and co-producer alongside the other band members and Moses Schneider and toured Germany and neighboring Europe for a few years. Then he stepped u. a. in the four-piece formation Pin-Brothers (with Uwe Lenz, brother of Martin Lenz , and Gaz from Dr. Mablues and the Detail Horns ), was active as a music producer and drummer with the Brothers fdm and performed at the international JazzArtFestival.

In 2007 he moved to Hamburg. There he founded the band Xusha , has been a music producer and drummer with Stefan Waldow since 2011 and drummer with Natalia Klitschko since 2014 . Since the beginning of 2015 he has also been touring with the band Homefield Four through large parts of Germany. In 2018 the album Ewiger Moment by Stefan Waldow was released, on which Kai Ortmann worked as a drummer and producer.

In addition to his concert activities, Kai Ortmann is active as a drum teacher, band coach and music school director. In 2009 he founded his own music school and in 2012 published a drum kit based on the Moeller technique based on Sanford A. Moeller .

At the beginning of 2019 another drum lesson from Kai Ortmann was published by Hansepercussion-Verlag.

Publications

• Stone the Crow: Daylight (1999); Year of the Crow (2001)
• Drum textbook: The KO course - the comprehensive rock / pop drum school . Hansepercussion-Verlag 2012. ISBN 978-3-9813575-5-4
• Stefan Waldow: Eternal Moment (2018)
• Drum textbook series: DRUMS KONKRET - 6 compact drum courses . Hansepercussion-Verlag 2019.

Web links

• own homepage
• Website of the band Xusha
• Music school website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait on laut.de
2. ↑ Year of the Crow album cover
3. ↑ Axel Streich: Superbowl party in the old slaughterhouse ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Announcement from January 16, 2005 on unicorns.de 
4. ↑ CD-Check Brothers fdm present new album , article from February 2, 2005 on tagblatt.de
5. ↑ JazzArt Program 2007 ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Xusha Youtube Channel
7. ↑ Concert report from June 4, 2012 on shz.de.
8. ↑ Concert report, caption Fig. 6/11 ( memento from April 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) from April 11, 2014 on ndr.de
9. ↑ Concert announcement Homefield Four - The Spirit of 70s Rock ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from March 23, 2015 on kreuznach-blog.de 
10. ↑ Timezone Records released an album
11. ↑ Presentation of the Music Lounge ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from November 29, 2012 on breloer.com 
12. ↑ Review of 7 April 2012 drumxound.com
13. ↑ [1] Description of the drum book series DRUMS KONKRET on hansepercussion.de