Stephan Maass (musician, 1967)
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
- Works by and about Stephan Maass in the catalog of the German National Library
- Stephan Maass website
- Stephan Maass at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: extraterrestrial reverberation
- ↑ Stephan Maass on jazzdrummerworld.com
- ↑ Stephan Maass at the drummer meeting
- ↑ Stephan Maass on drummerszone.com
- ↑ Ralf Gustke & Stephan Maass @superdrumming
- ↑ Stephan Maass in the Bruckner University in Linz ( Memento from October 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Amadeus Award for Stephan Maass
personal data | |
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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 |