Reza Askari

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Reza Askari at the Artheater Cologne, March 2013

Reza Askari (born April 14, 1986 in Fulda ) is a German double bass player and composer of the Modern Creative .

Live and act

Askari took piano lessons at the age of eight and switched to the electric bass at the age of 12 . From 2006 to 2012 Askari first studied electric bass with Marius Goldhammer at the Cologne University of Music and Dance , from 2008 switched to double bass and studied with Dieter Manderscheid and Sebastian Gramss . Between 2012 and 2014 he studied the Master of Improvising Arts at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen with Robert Landfermann .

From 2004 to 2010 Askari was a member of the Hessen State Youth Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Wolfgang Diefenbach . He also played in Peter Herbolzheimer's European Masterclass Big Band from 2009 to 2010 , under the direction of Herbolzheimer and John Ruocco . Between 2009 and 2011 he was a member of the concert line-up of the Federal Jazz Orchestra (BuJazzO).

Askari has worked at club and festival concerts with musicians such as Marc Ducret , Jiggs Whigham , Lee Konitz , Hayden Chisholm , Herb Geller , Frank Gratkowski , Benny Golson , Jeff Hamilton , Philip Catherine , Frank Haunschild , Thomas Rückert , Nicolas Simion , Ramesh Shotham , Zoltán Lantos , Florian Ross , Sebastian Sternal , Frederik Köster , Jonas Burgwinkel , Marshall Gilkes , Jens Düppe , Niels Klein , Nils Tegen , Heiner Wiberny , Pablo Held or Ryan Carniaux together. He also performed with Maryam Akhondy ( Paaz Live at WDR ; Laika Records 2016). In 2012 he founded his own formation ROAR with Stefan Karl Schmid and Fabian Arends .

Askari tours have taken him to Vietnam, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, India, South Korea, China, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Turkey, Romania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Italy, Portugal, England, the United States of America and Canada .

Discographic notes

Web links

Commons : Reza Askari  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ meeting. Mirror online
  2. ↑ Michael Rüsenberg meeting
  3. ↑ Iranian New Tones - Maryam Akhondy's PAAZ. Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne , September 22, 2015, accessed on October 17, 2018 : "Reza Askari - double bass"
  4. ↑ Benedikt Koch: Album "True in no possible World". (No longer available online.) In: benediktkoch.de. August 3, 2018, archived from the original on October 17, 2018 ; accessed on October 17, 2018 (English).
  5. ↑ Among Servants. In: Baby Blue Pages. 2018, accessed October 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Askari, Reza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German double bass player and composer of the Modern Creative
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda