Stephan Maass (musician, 1967)

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Stephan Maass

Stephan Maass (born June 22, 1967 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) is a German percussionist , producer and university teacher.

biography

Maass has been dealing with all areas of percussion since 1982 . He played in school bands, took second place at the 2nd international drummer meeting in Koblenz in 1984 and performed in the Hugo Strasser dance orchestra at the age of 18 . Since 1989 he has been working as a professional musician. With his wife, the singer Elfi Aichinger , he released the album Kiss the Frog in 1993 on Extraplatte ; on the same label followed in 1997 under his name Time Out . His spectrum ranges from jazz productions with Colin Towns and the NDR Big Band to Austropop such as Austria 3 , Rainhard Fendrich and Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung to electronic acts such as Kruder & Dorfmeister .

As a producer he worked for record companies such as Universal Music , Sony BMG , etc. He also played at drum festivals such as the Meinl Drum Festival or Superdrumming Gmunden / Austria .

Maass teaches percussion as a major at the Jazz Department (JIM) of the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz ( Austria ).

Awards

  • Numerous gold and platinum awards
  • Austrian Amadeus Award for the best pop production national 2005 (for Georg Danzer's album Personally as producer)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: extraterrestrial reverberation
  2. ↑ Stephan Maass on jazzdrummerworld.com
  3. ↑ Stephan Maass at the drummer meeting
  4. ↑ Stephan Maass on drummerszone.com
  5. ↑ Ralf Gustke & Stephan Maass @superdrumming
  6. ↑ Stephan Maass in the Bruckner University in Linz ( Memento from October 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Amadeus Award for Stephan Maass
personal data
SURNAME Maass, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German percussionist, producer and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Homburg vor der Höhe