Marc Muellbauer

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Marc Muellbauer at the Unterfahrt jazz club (Munich 2010)

Marc Muellbauer (* 1968 in London ) is a German jazz bassist who has also emerged as an interpreter of new music.

Life

Marc Muellbauer moved to Germany with his parents in 1971. He grew up in Krefeld and attended an English school there. At the age of fifteen, he began with the bass guitar to learn to play music after him the bass playing of Jaco Pastorius on the plate Night Passage of Weather Report fascinated. He took lessons from Stefan Rademacher and founded his first band. From 1985 to 1988 he also took lessons on the double bass with Hans-Günther Hilgers at the Kreismusikschule in Viersen , because he considered classical training to be important for learning sheet music and knowledge of music theory. His love for the double bass brought him to study music at the Essen Institute of the Folkwang University (1989–1994) in Michael Wolf's class. At the university he took part in workshops on new music by Maurizio Kagel and Karlheinz Stockhausen . During this time his interest in jazz music began . He played in various jazz formations and took further lessons from various jazz bassists. With his teacher Michael Wolf he moved to Berlin in 1994 , where he obtained a diploma for orchestral music at the Hochschule der Künste in 1996 . In Berlin he was a member of the Ensemble for New Music United Berlin from 1994 to 1996 , with whom he premiered new composers and pieces by Ligeti , Berg , Webern and Schönberg . He took further jazz lessons from jazz musicians such as Charlie Banacos , Rufus Reid , Richie Beirach , Kirk Nurock , Mike Richmond , Dieter Ilg , Wayne Roberts , James Knapp , David Friedman , Peter Less , Sigi Busch and Maria Schneider . In 2002 he passed a concert exam in jazz at the University of the Arts.

Projects

Marc Muellbauer founded the band Ginster 7 with Julia Hülsmann and Daniel Mattar . From this formation he developed the idea for his own band project, the Marc Muellbauer's Kaleidoscope . The acoustic music of the nine-piece band clearly shows the influences of classical music and folk . Since 1996 he has played in the Julia Hülsmann Trio, initially with the drummer Rainer Winch , later replaced by Heinrich Köbberling . He also plays in the quartet of Dirk Homuth , in the Charlotte Greves Lisbeth Quartet and in the duo Sleepwalk with the flutist Rolf von Nordenskjöld . He can also be heard on albums by Moritz von Oswald , Esther Kaiser , Finn Wiesner , Celine Rudolph , Uli Kempendorff , the Wood & Steel Trio and Nico Lohmann

In addition to jazz music, Muellbauer was a member of the backing band of the German songwriter Klaus Hoffmann from 1996 to 2000 , has played in the tango quintet Yira Yira since 1998 and with Tim Fischer since 2001 .

Discographic notes

  • Hülsmann, Muellbauer, Winch Trio (2000)
  • Marc Muellbauer's Kaleidoscope Quiet (schoener listen music 2004)
  • Marc Muellbauer's Kaleidoscope Journeyman ( JazzHausMusik 2011)

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