Thomas Maos

Thomas Maos (* 1964 in Neckarsulm ) is a German- Cypriot guitarist , performer , experimental musician and composer .

Live and act

During his civil service and psychology studies (1984-89) at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , Maos earned his first money as a musician by dubbing advertising films (including Shimano , Grundig , Ernst Klett Verlag ), performing with various rock / pop bands and taking guitar lessons. From 1989 to 1993 he had guitar lessons with Albert Mayer-Mikosch in Tübingen; During this time Maos also gained studio experience as a session musician a . a. for Alex Köberlein of the band Grachmusikoff ( Sonnemond 1993 ).

From 1990 to 1996 he organized and directed the workshop stage NIET ( New Improviser Ensemble Tübingen ) in the Tübingen Club Voltaire with international guests from freely improvised music a. a. with Ulrike Helmholz , Gino Robair , Ingeborg Poffet , Helmut Bieler-Wendt , Uli Sobotta and Günther Heinz . At the same time he founded the rock band DEAD POETS with the singer-songwriter Paco Steinmann with Jörg Honecker (bass) and Ralf Wettemann (drums). In the following years the formation played around 800 concerts in Germany, Switzerland and France. The debut album Das Gele (BMG-Ariola) produced by Sandi Strmljan in 1996 received a lot of attention in the German music press. In 1996 Maos completed the pop course , a contact course for popular music at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater .

In the following years Maos moved increasingly in different project-oriented work between serious and popular music . In 1999 Thomas Maos founded the international festival Creative Arts and Music Project (CAMP) together with cellist and media artist Fried Dähn . Since then, the festival has taken place on invitation at various locations (2005 Montemor - Lisbon, 2007 WKV Stuttgart - funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes , 2010 HfG Karlsruhe , 2009 the festival celebrated its tenth anniversary in the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart ).

In addition to numerous solo appearances, Maos works with musicians such as the Americans Elliott Sharp , Saadet Türköz , Joseph Klammer and Mark Kysela as well as actors, visual artists, visual artists and dancers. In 2013 Maos appeared with the formation BRAINS at Zappanale . Since 2015 he has been guitarist and arranger for the band Lucie M. and the Tribunal des Escargots , which released their debut album Kreuzweise in 2017 .

He teaches as a guitar teacher and band coach at the Jamclub Tübingen music school. Together with his wife Birgit Riegger, who designs the website and CD cover, and their two children, he has lived and worked in Tübingen since 1990 .

Projects (selection)

• Sonic Visions audio-visual concert series curated by Thomas Maos together with Fried Dähn in collaboration with the cultural organizer Franz.K in Reutlingen .
• Beyond fire - concert for 10 slide projectors and electric guitar with Jörg Kallinich
• Silentartorchestra , with Sandi Strmljan.

Theatrical music

Since 1997, numerous engagements as musician, composer and performer at various theaters have followed: Theater Lindenhof Melchingen , Landestheater Tübingen , Stadttheater Heilbronn , Zimmertheater Tübingen

• 2009 The Great Macabre , Zimmer Theater Tübingen
• 2010 My mother likes mi net - singing folk songs , Landestheater Tübingen
• 2010 Älles Onser , Theater Lindenhof Melchingen
• 2012 There is no end , mono dialogues by Anna Jablonskaja . German premiere - Zimmertheater Tübingen

Discography

• The Yellow Dead Poets, BMG Ariola (1998)
• Forbidden Planet with Gino Robair, Pit Schmidt, Björn Eichstädt, (1999) self-distribution
• Kopfab - Spoken songs - literature and music, (2002) self-distribution
• PACO - Soul Tattoo , step advertainment
• Chill in drill out (Contemporary Pieces for Electric Guitar), NurNichtNur Records, (2005)
• Kent Masali , songs from the oriental occident, (2006) self-distributed
• The Brains , Endorphins, Way Out Records (2009)
• Larger than Life Silentartorchestra, Fastball Music (Sony Music), (2009)
• Mei Mutter Mag mi net - Folksongs Zersingen , LTT Landestheater Tübingen (2010)
• Lucie M. and the Tribunal des Escargots , Kreuzweise (2017)

Awards

• 1996 winner of the year with the band Dead Poets at the SWF 3 Rookies junior band competition.
• 2000 Invitation to the German children's and youth theater meeting in Berlin with the play Say but something by Anders Ramberg , Landestheater Tübingen.
  (Director: Jochen Fölster, Music: Thomas Maos)
• 2003 scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation
• 2008 scholarship from Akademie Schloss Solitude

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.streamlyne.de
2. ↑ Interview with the music magazine OUK (October 1999) ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Completed projects www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de
4. ↑ camp 2010 www.hfg-karlsruhe.de ( Memento of the original dated May 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Events 2009 www.wkv-stuttgart.de
6. ^ Website of the musician Fried Dähn
7. ↑ Website Elliot Sharp - Concerts 2011 ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Stuttgart Jazz Days 2011
9. ↑ Camp 2011 Artists ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Zappanale 2013 ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ http://www.luciemackert.de/Das_Tribunal_des_Escargots.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ www.farbdosis.de
13. ↑ Stadtwiki Tübingen www.tuepedia.de
14. ^ Press review Sonic Visions
15. ↑ Web presence of the media artist Jörg Kallinich
16. ↑ silentartorchestra
17. ↑ www.landestheater-tuebingen.de
18. ↑ Interview with Florian Kleine and Thomas Maos  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Free radio desert wave  
19. ↑ Article on My mother likes mi net in: Schwäbisches Tagblatt (February 20, 2010)
20. ↑ "Shiny: Jablonskaja's" There is no end "at the room theater"
21. ↑ Hit suspect guitar pop in: Schwäbisches Tagblatt (December 28, 2005)
22. ↑ CD-Check Schwäbisches Tagblatt 2005
23. ↑ underground electronic music label www.zenapolae.com Pennsylvania (USA)
24. ↑ download topten www.zenapolae.com
25. ↑ www.jugendtheater.net ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
26. ↑ Scholarship holders www.kunststiftung.net

Web links

• Official website of Thomas Maos
• Visual Music Festival - Seeing sounds, hearing images in: DIE ZEIT (April 28, 2011 No. 18) Retrieved on May 27, 2011
• camp-festival.de
• Thomas Maos at lastfm.de
• Video channel on Youtube from Campfestival
• Music school Jamclub