Markus Faller
Markus Faller (born October 31, 1974 in Rastatt ) is a German drummer , percussionist , drum teacher and author .
Live and act
Markus Faller received his first music lessons from 1979 at the Rastatt Music School and began studying drums there in 1986. It was there that he met his long-time mentor and drum teacher Joe Koinzer , with whom he took regular lessons until 1996. At the same time he took lessons from Hermann Mutschler and Klaus Kugel .
Faller studied jazz percussion at the Mannheim University of Music . At that time he was a member of the Federal Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Peter Herbolzheimer . Since 1994 Faller has been working regularly with the jazz trumpeter Thomas Siffling in his Thomas Siffling Quartet, the Thomas Siffling Group and the Thomas Siffling Trio. As part of a tour of the Thomas Siffling Group in 2001, a radio recording was made for Bayerischer Rundfunk . Several recordings followed, including for WDR and SWR . Worldwide tours and festival appearances followed with the Thomas Siffling Trio.
In 1995 he began working with the German New Orleans musician Wim Mauthe and his band, in which he played together with the pianist Jon Marks. In October 1998 he started his concert and recording activities with the guitarist Friedemann Witecka and his Friedemann project .
Faller played on recordings of various bands. Since 1992 he has been teaching drums and percussion as a private teacher and has been a lecturer at the municipal music school and music academy in Germersheim since 2001. In the course of his teaching activities in 2003 he published a drum kit with the title "Floating Feet". In the book he explains a method that he developed during his time with Hermann Mutschler. In January 2015, Faller published an autobiographical short story entitled "A Knalltrauma".
Honourings and prices
- 1999 Prize of the German Record Critics in the jazz category of the quarterly list for the album "Suites" by the group Pipes & Phones.
- 1999 Gold Jazz Award for the album “Passion and Pride” by Friedemann Witecka (with Philippe Geiss and Emmanuel Séjournée, among others ).
- 2000 winner of the Daimler Chrysler Talent Competition in the jazz category with the Thomas Siffling Quartet (including Rainer Böhm ).
- 2001 Pipes & Phones (with Peter Schindler and Peter Lehel ): Best ensemble at the Jazz and Churchorgan competition in Hanover.
Publications
- with Hermann Mutschler: Floating Feet . Musical notes. MPM Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-00-011979-5 .
- Jazz exercises on the drums . Videos on youtube, 2016 .
- A bang trauma. Badner, Rastatt 2015, ISBN 978-3-944635-10-1 .
Discography (selection)
- Soft Wind - Thomas Siffling Jazz Quartet
- Change - Thomas Siffling Trio
- Stories - Thomas Siffling Group
- Kitchen Music - Thomas Siffling Trio
- Cruising - Thomas Siffling Trio
- Personal Relations - Thomas Siffling Trio
- Passion and Pride - Friedemann
- The Concert - Friedemann
- Stories - Friedemann
- Echoes Of A Shattered Sky - Friedemann
- Asian Habanera - Saltacello
- Joking Barber - Saltacello
- Great Son - Saltacello
- Best Of Saltacello - Saltacello
- Suites - Pipes & Phones (with Herbert Joos )
- Missa - Pipes & Phones
- Sings Shakespeare Sonnets - Caroll Vanwelden
- Tiru - Roland Schaeffer Trio
- Music - Roland Schaeffer Trio
- In Concert - Wim's Paradies Jazzband
- Adagio - Herbert Joos
- Boleros - Wolfgang Meyer & Peter Lehel
- Songs From The Seas - Anne Wylie
Web links
- Markus Faller's website
- Markus Faller at Discogs (English)
- Markus Faller in the City Music School and Music Academy Germersheim
- Tom Schäfer: Interview STICKS. (PDF) 2000, accessed June 9, 2017 .
- Interview with Markus Faller in the magazine "STICKS" 2000 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Faller, Markus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German drummer, percussionist, drum teacher and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rastatt |