(teaches Old-School Funk & Hip Hop, Drums & Electronic, Studio)

During his long drumming career, Dirk Erchinger has played with many big names in the international music scene.
Following his studies at the Percussion Institute of Technology (PIT) in Los Angeles (’92/’93) he has played innumerous gigs and on dozens of CDs.
Dirk is the regular drummer of the German hiphop/ jazz group ‘Jazzkantine’ (www.jazzkantine.de), the funk/soul act ‘Count Basic’ (Austria/ USA: www.countbasic.com) and the Berlin percussion band ‘Drum Connection’(www.drumconnection.net).
Among those Dirk has collaborated with Gloria Gaynor, Kruder& Dorfmeister, Nana, Pee Wee Ellis, West Bam, Cunnie Williams, Such a Surge, Ophra Haza, Vanilla Ninja, Inga Rumpf, Hamburg Blues Band, Naomi, The Wright Thing, Joe Whitney and the list continues…
With the Jazzkantine he recieved the biggest German music prize, the ‘Echo’ and the ‘Jazz-Echo’.
In 2008 Dirk and Count Basic were awarded the Austrian ‘Amadeus-Award’ for the best jazz & blues album.
During his career, Dirk has clocked up many chart hits. These include a number one hit in the American Billboard Charts (with Count Basic) and various chart hits in Germany’s Top 100 (with Jazzkantine).
On the Jazzkantine albums, he plays with artists like Ol’ Dirty Bastard from Wu-Tang-Clan, Xavier Naidoo, Laith Al-Deen, Brixx, Till Brönner, Fred Wesley, Edo Zanki, Rias-Big Band, HR-Big Band or Smudo from the Fantastischen 4. Dirk has toured with various bands, travelling through Europe, Asia, Africa and in the USA. With his business D-Phunk Musik, he has produced a number of solo albums as well as soundtracks for film, tv, and advertising, working for clients like Senator Film, Sat 1, BMG, Volkswagen, Audi and others.
The German magazine, Drums & Percussion describes him as: …’Groovemaster made in Germany’…

www.dirk-erchinger.de

(teaches reaggae, dance hall, hip hop, metal, band training)

Markus ist he drummer and percussion player of the Berlin-based band “Ohrbooten” and one of the most innovative young drummers in Germany.
At the age of 7 he had classical piano lessons and received classical drum tuition from the age of twelve years on. Apart from that, he plays electric guitar as well as electric bass and is a trained keyboard teacher. He took part in the “Popkurs” at the “Hochschule für Musik und Theater” in Hamburg.

Multi-instrumentalist Markus has played Death Metal and Techno before coming to his current band, “Ohrbooten”. Among others, he has played for Ben and Jeanette Biedermann. He also works as a producer and studio drummer in his own “Melmac-Studio” here in Berlin.

www.ohrbooten.de

The Canadian Randy Black is one of the best metal drummers worldwide. He played with bands like Primal Fear, Annihilator, Bif Naked and DuskMaschine.

Once you see him live, you’ll have to admit: absolutely outstanding!

www.myspace.com/randytblack

Born in Brooklyn/New York, Kenny Martin wrote music history with the legendary funk band “Defunkt”. Recently he played the drums on Peter Fox’ Album „Stadtaffe“.
Kenny was also the teacher of Felix Lehrmann

http://www.myspace.com/kennymartindrumsproductions

Multi-instrumentalist Tim studied music with the drums as his main instrument at “Frankfurter Musikwerkstatt”. From 1992 to 1993 he studied drums at Drummers Collective in New York.

He has worked as a theatre musician at the “Schauspielhaus Frankfurt/Main” under the musical direction of Tom van der Geld. Tim is the Drummer of the Belgian band “Front 242″ who are said to be the inventors of EBM (electronic body music). With “Front 242″ he has toured the US, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Moscow, London, Paris, Stockholm, Madrid. Since 1999, he has been touring worldwide as co-founder and drummer of “Micatone”. Furthermore, he has worked as tour-drummer for the band “Ich&Ich” from Berlin.

www.playmobeat.de!

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www.david-paetsch.de

The Austrian born drummer Andy Winter received his musical education at the Conservatory of Vienna and played with well known austrian musicians like Charly Ratzer, Harry Stoijka, Leo Wright, Wolfgang Puschnig, Linda Sharrock, Jimmy Woody, Lee Harper, and Richard Oesterreicher, among many others.

1988 he received a scholarship from the world renowned university “New School of Music” in New York and left Austria for his further studies. During his stay in New York he started to work with musicians like Larry Goldings, Brad Mehldau, Ron Carter, Mark Whitfield, Peter Bernstein, Scott Colley, Chris Potter, Slide Hampton, Frank Wess, Shabhib Shihab, Rick Margitza, Ben Monder and Donny McCaslin.

Beside his activities in the Jazz/R&B scene in NYC, he started to participate in the 80′s as a sideman in the legendary “Institutional Church of God in Christ” and has played with famous artists from the Contemporary Gospel scene.
Since 1998 he has played with Cirque du Soleil all across Europe.

Currently living in Berlin, Andy is continually working with musicians like Spirit of Life Ensemble, Twana Rhodes, Nina Hill, Spike (Pam Knight), Della Miles, Sigi Davis, Keith Tynes, Paul Kuhn and the dinner show “Pomp, Duck & Circumstances”.

“The musicianship is on caliber with any of todays top musical groups and the compositions will leave you completely satisfied. As a composer, producer and drummer Andy Winter will be around for many, many years to come.”
Lenny White

www.andywinter.com

Christian Vinne has studied at Pop Akademie Baden-Württemberg. He is the drummer in the band of Irish singer and guitarist Wallis Bird, with whom he has toured the world and released two albums and a number of singles. Vinne is also known for his outstanding talent as a singer and rapper. “Sticks” magazine has called him the “obergroover”.

www.myspace.com/christianvinne

Stephan Genze has studied classical drums in Berlin with Professor Vogler, as well as jazz drums at UdK Berlin. He teaches drums at UdK Berlin and gives numerous big band and drum workshops.

He plays and has played in numerous musical and theatre productions, including
Variete Wintergarten, Berlin
RIAS Big Band
Filmorchester Babelsberg and Big Band

Among others, he has worked with the following artists:
Gitte Haenning, Bill Ramsey, Ack v. Royen, Rolf Kühn, Reinhardt Mey, Pe Werner, Ute Lemper, Roy Hargroove, Klaus Hoffmann, Katja Ebstein, Mary, Helen Schneider, Tim Fischer, Kim Fischer, Howard Carpendale

www.stephangenze.de

The canadian shooting star has studied at Montreal Music Conservatory. He has developed his Hybrid Concept, a fusion of electronic and acoustic drums, and today his name stands for modern contemporal drumming.

www.myspace.com/hybriddrum

(teaches Afro-Brasil Grooves for drums, percussion for drummers)

Dudu Tucci was born in Sao Paulo in 1955 into a musical family and started drumming as a young boy in the Umbanda ceremonies. After leaving school he studied percussion, flute and musicology.
Dudu is a pioneer of afro-brasilian rhythms in Germany and Europe.
As an outstanding percussionist and solo artist he toured all over the world and has published 9 Solo-CDs.
Dudu, co-founder of Bloco Afox and Brazil Power Drums, is head of the PercussionArtCenter (PAC). As a much requested percussion teacher he continues to inspire many thousands of students who take part in his courses such as Conga Total, Samba Fever, and the professional training project “Roots of Brazil”.

teaches studio drumming, rock, punk, in yer face…

Born in Frankfurt, Martin got his first drum set and private lessons at the age of 13. After playing in a number of bands, some of which got record deals, he became the drummer of H-Blockx, Westbam, Abwärts and Nina Hagen. He has worked as a studio drummer on numerous productions ranging from Subway to Sally, De/Vision to Heinz Hönig and Oli P. or Rosenstolz and Ich&Ich.

Furthermore, Dog has played the drums for Paul van Dyk, Ulla Meinecke, Dirk Zöllner, Sissi Perlinger, The Bosshoss, Right Said Fred and Valentine. He has worked as a composer and producer for artists such as Diane Weigman, Bomb Texas or Ben Hamilton and has also composed and produced soundtracks for movies and television in his own “Doghaus-Studio”.
Living in Berlin, Dog is one of the most-hired live- and studio-drummers in Germany.

www.doghaus.de

teaches marching drums, band training, drum logistics

Enno studied drums at the “Hochschule für Musik” in Hanover, at the “Hochschule für Musik und Theater” in Hamburg and at Drummers Collective in New York.
So far he has been on tour with Randy Crawford, Rosenstolz and Orientation. He has worked with Space Hobos, Muhabet Aziza A., Manfred Krug, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Mary Roos, Pete “Wyoming” Bender, Billy Lennox, Trevor B. Lewis and his own Band, Beat ‘n Blow.

He has got two golden records with Rosenstolz.

www.ennokuck.de

teaches top40, pop, self-management

Jan was born in Berlin and is the Drummer of the Band Poems for Laila.
Among others, he has played with Emma Lanford, Cherno Jobatey, Helge Schneider, Ron Spielman, Colin Rich, Cosmo Klein, Boogie Pimps, Micatone, Dirk Michaelis, Medlz and his own band, JCB.

Drum magazine “Sticks” on Jan: “just a cool drummer”.

www.jpe-drums.de

Topics: Carreer-Coaching and Self-Marketing
Berliner Peter Lüder has worked as an actor from 1988 to 1997. Since 1994 he has worked as a director in almost 40 theatre productions. In 2007 he was trained as an application coach at FORUM Berufsbildung in Berlin and has worked with different companies as a teacher and application coach.

(teaches funk drumming & live recording / studio recording / recording technics / sound / producing workshops)

The Berlin born drummer has been playing for countless national and international acts.
He was one of the heads of the German pop trios Cultured Pearls and he’s member and producer of the band Soulounge.

Bela has been working among others for Bootsy Collins (drummer/studio & live) Randy Crawford (drummer / studio & live) Andrew Roachford (drummer / studio & live) Lamont Dozier (drummer /live) Miss Platnum (drummer / studio & live) Mousse T. (drummer / studio & live / live-recording) Roger Cicero (producer / drummer / studio & live) Della Miles (drummer / live) Ayo (producer) Bobby Brown (drummer/studio) Snoop Dog (drummer/studio) Till Brönner (drummer/studio) Hiram Bullock (drummer/live Stefan Gwildis (drummer/live) Gabriel Gordon (producer/drummer/live & studio) Rick Braun (drummer/live) Edo Zanki (drummer/live) Niels Frevert (drummer/live) Joo Kraus (drummer/live & studio) Scott Lawton (drummer/live) Marque (drummer/live & studio) Claude Nobs (drummer/live) Johannes Oerding (producer/drummer/live & studio) Ayo (producer/drummer/live & studio) Jan Plewka (Selig) (drummer/live) Colin Rich (drummer/live & studio) Teddy Richards (drummer/live) Placebo (live-recording/mixing) Sugarbabes (live-recording/mixing) Joss Stone (live-recording/mixing) 2Raum Wohnung (live-recording/mixing) James Morrison (live-recording/mixing) Bela B. (live-recording/mixing)
Neneh Cherry (live-recording/mixing) Mando Diao (live-recording/mixing) Joy Denalane (live-recording/mixing) Deftones (live-recording/mixing) My Chemical Romance (live-recording/mixing) Phoenix (live-recording/mixing) The Cardigans (live-recording/mixing) Chinkinki (live-recording/mixing) Nada Surf (live-recording/mixing) Korn (live-recording/mixing) Kaiser Chiefs (live-recording/mixing) Ms Dynamite (live-recording/mixing)
Any questions?

www.myspace.com/belabrauckmann

(Themen: RnB- & Hip Hop-Workshops)

Felix M. Lehrmann is the drummer of Rivo Drei.

23 year old Felix has been playing drums professionally since he was 17. During his relatively young career, he has played with different artists such as Kurtis Blow, Weather Girls, D-Flame, Bell Book & Candle, Yvonne Catterfeld, Valentine, Nneka, Jeanette Biedermann, Mamadee, Itchycoo, DJ Mehdi, Bintia, Deutschland sucht den Superstar, Mike Leon Grosch, Tobias Regner, Martin Luther, Jan Delay, Culcha Candela, Miss Dynamite, Tino Gonzales, Jamie Shaw, DJ Friction, Wibrecht Sisters, Ayman, Fetsum, Five Deez, Valezka, Bush Babies, Illo, Malique, Bahamadia, Afrob, Lilly Jets, Mr. Complex, Muhabbet, Orange Blue, Denyo, Torch, Geschwister Liebe, Hans-Werner Olm, Luttenberger Klug, Nevio Passaro, Hidden Paper Monsters, Jenna & Ron, Seeed and Lisa Bund.

The most fascinating aspect about Felix’s playing is his musicality, his stylish approach and understanding about musical interaction in the song. His drumming is so sophisticated and mature that one may think they are hearing a drumming veteran who has decades of playing experience under his belt.

“When speaking about the future of modern drum set playing in general, there is no doubt that Felix will be one of the future’s most influential innovators. There is no way he’s going to be ignored.” (Drummerworld.com)

www.myspace.com/felixlehrmann

from wiener neustadt, Austria. came to Berlin in 2004 as a drummer for the Blue Man Group. he also played the show in London for two years but found his adoptive home afterwards in berlin again. since then he still has been drumming in costume and make-up but even more without, mainly in his heartband Tim Neuhaus & The Cabinet. in regular intervals he also is enjoying schnitzels in vienna.

www.myspace.com/fh47

1997: Summer course at Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA)
2000: Kontaktstudiengang Popularmusik (Popkurs 2000) at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg
1998-2003: Studies in Jazz at Hochschule für Musik “Franz Liszt” in
Weimar, main subject DRUMSET

Since 1999, Tim has worked as a drummer and producer in the studio or live on stage with artists such as Clueso, Blue Man Group Berlin and London, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Katja Riemann and Mariha. At the moment he tours Germany as singer and guitarist of his own Band (Tim Neuhaus Band), supporting, among others, Clueso, Mike Doughty (Soul Coughin’), Hellsongs and Livingston.
Tim has also contributed four songs from his CD “Blankets” to the soundtrack of the movie “Evet, ich will” (2009).

www.myspace.com/timneuhausmusic

Drummer and composer Eric lives in Berlin and works internationally with a number of his own ensembles as well as as a sideman. He has a very large variety of forms of musical expression that ranges from jazz and new music to post rock and noise in composition as well as improvisation.

He has written works of orchestra- and chambermusic (e.g. Hit and Run/Kompass/Henosis) as well as music for piano trio (for Wollny/Kruse/Schäfer, Carsten Daerr Trio) and rock songs (Johnny La Marama).

He also includes gongs, bells, electronics and selfmade instruments in his playing to help him form his personal amalgam of everything sounding within him.

Eric has won the SWR-Jazzpreis Award in 2010. He teaches drums at Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden since 2008.

About 30 CD recordings, commissioned compositions and numerous radio productions document the large variety of his creative work.

(teaches programming, bass for drummers, bass & drums)

Carsten was born in Berlin and started his career as a professional bass player at the age of 17. He studied at Bass Institute of Technology BIT in Los Angeles.

As a bass player he worked with Kenny Martin, Bill Bickford, Wolf Simon, RAD, DAN, Romy Haag, Frank Dietz, Jean Jaques Crawetz, the German Band Rosenstolz, Pete “Wyoming” Bender and many more.

From 1994 on he has been working intensively as a producer, composer, arranger and musician in his own studio, producing CDs, jingles, film music, radio plays and sound design, as well as music for commercials and art installations. He plays on more than 100 CDs and has composed music for more than 60 films.

www.bassball-production.de

(teaches acoustic bass & drums)

As a child, Eva Kruse (born 1978 in Hamburg) was taught classical piano for eleven years, and went from there to playing the electric bass in different bigbands at the age of 14.
In 1998 she started to study double bass and improvisation at the university of arts “UdK” in Berlin, where she was taught by Sigi Busch, Jerry Granelli and David Friedman. She also went to Sweden to study with jazz bassist and professor Anders Jormin in Göteborg for half a year.

While playing with the youth-bigband “BundesJazzOrchester” from 1999 to 2001, she also took classes with pianist John Taylor who inspired her to start writing music for different bands and projects.
In 2002, she formed a group of her own, and what started as Eva Kruse Trio soon became [em], which is today her most important project she continuously tours all over the world with.

Other projects include the bands Firomanum, Arne Jansen Trio and Soap.
Eva Kruse is also a well-known artist at the JazzBaltica Festival in Northern Germany, where she got to know Swedish trombonist Nils Landgren with whom she is nowadays working constantly in different projects.

www.em-trio.de

Martin Lillich, self-taught on the electric bass studied double bass at the HdK Berlin with Klaus Stoll. He also plays six string acoustic freteless bassguitar. At home in classical music, afro-caribbean, jazz, turkish and related, New Klezmer. He is a soloist and as a sideman integral part of Berlin and the German jazz scene. From 1995 to 2005 he was teaching at the Berlin Hans Eisler jazzdepartment. Since 2003 bandleader at the show Pompduck & Circumstance. Since 2010 he is part of the Global Music Academy.
name dropping ( jazz and world only):
Kenny Wheeler, Charlie Mariano, Enrico Rava, Leszek Mozdzer, Mikis Theodorakis, Al DiMeola, Benny Bailey, Pandit Kamalesh Maitra, Lynne Arielle, Chris Bennett, Perry Robinson, Helmut Brandt, Alan Berne, Niko Schoyble, Walter Norris, Maria Farantouri, Billy Bang…

Björn Werra

Björn Werra, born in Berlin in 1973, has studied at Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. Among others, he was taught by Thomy Jordi, Jiggs Whigham and Ingrid Jensen.
He lives and works an a bassplayer in Berlin and regularly tours Germany, Europe and the US with different bands and artists.
Credits:
Abwärts, Adoro, Kelly Rowland, Wyclef Jean, Dave Koz, Candy Dulfer, Tommy Emmanuel, Pat Appleton (De-Phazz), Heather Greene, Peter White, Joy Denalane, Emma Lanford (Mousse T.), Jaguar Wright, Bahamadia, Dendemann, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester and Kent Nagano, Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg and Johannes Heesters, Kai Wingenfelder (Fury in the Slaugherhouse), Dave Binney, Jocelyn B. Smith, Ich & Ich, Westbam, Gayle Tufts, Poems For Laila, The Dostoyevskys, Diane Weigmann and many others.
In the studio he has worked with producers such as Jon Caffrey (Joy Division, Die Toten Hosen), Patrik Majer (Wir sind Helden), Jeromy Allom (Massive Attack) and Moses Schneider (Beatsteaks).

www.bjoernwerra.de

Michael became completely enamoured of music at the age of 4 when the songs of a Beatles record first penetrated his eardrums via headphones, permeated his brain and then touched his musical heart & soul.
Today he plays the bass and earned a high reputation as a sideman doing studio work and playing live in diverse musical projects. Since five years he custom-builds together with his brother Christian the rhythmic foundation in the band of lively Irish singer and songwriter Wallis Bird. With these two pals he lived and worked for three years in Swinging London and is touring constantly through Europe. Besides well-beloved electric bass Michael passionatly plays guitar and double bass.
Michael has worked with Wallis Bird, Get Well Soon, Das Caro, Naria and Lauter Leben amongst others.

www.michaelvinne.com

Born in Guadalajara/Mexico, Krili grew up in Bavaria/Germany.
He studied electric bass at BSM in Munich.

He lives and works as a bassplayer in Berlin since 2008.

He has toured Germany with a number of projects and has also worked as a theatre musician (at Münchner Kammerspiele among others).

His main band in Berlin is amKiosk, together with Drumtrainer colleague Enno Kuck, where he plays the bass, composes and produces.

Furthermore he has worked as a live and studio bassist with Uli Wolf, Micatone, Stefan Zinner, Mop and many others.

www.kristofhuf.com

Martin studied jazz drums at the Konservatorium in Munich before he came to Berlin, where he was student of drumtrainer Dirk Erchinger for a year.
He took part in the “Popkurs” at the “Hochschule für Musik und Theater” in Hamburg, where he was taught among others by drumming legend Curt Cress.

Since 2008 he is running the drum-academy DRUMTRAINER BERLIN together with headmaster Dirk Erchinger.

He ist the drummer, arranger and co-producer of Berlin-based Band “Mockemalör”. He is a member of the “Maria Reiser”-Band.

Among others, he worked wih Bands such as “Fabeck”, “Lisa Who”, swedish Singer/Songwriter “Siri Svegler”, “deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen”…

www.soundcloud.com/mockemaloer

Maxi Heinicke studies music education at UdK (University of the Arts) Berlin and rehabilitation science at Humboldt University Berlin.

She has finished an additional qualification program in elementary music education at Hochschule für Musik (Universtity of Music) Hanns Eisler in Berlin.
For a few years Maxi has been working in the field of music education for young children and has given workshops for school classes. She also leads longterm and tandem projects with schools where for example she makes music with 500 children at the same time.
Since 2006 she has been giving seminars for educators and teachers throughout Germany, dealing with the issues of musical development of children and musical work on topics of children’s everyday lives.
Maxi has also been a member of the conceptual team of Klingendes Museum Berlin since its foundation. Since 2009 she has been the musical director of the prisoner theatre „aufBruch“ in the JVA Berlin-Tegel (a Berlin prison).

Born 1971 in St. Louis, Missouri. Began working as a professional guitarist at age 17, working with The Temptations, The Drifters, The Shangri-La’s, and the local jazz elite. Graduated as a Presidential Scholar from Southern Illinois University with a Bachelors Degree in Jazz Performance. Lived in New York City, New York for eight years working in the jazz and studio scene, playing everywhere from Birdland to Lincoln Center to Carnegie Hall and touring the USA and Canada. Lives in Berlin, Germany since 2000.
Selected CD’s in which Karl Schloz has appeared:
“Hilde”, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Warner Bros., 2009
“Heike Makatsch Sings Hildegard Knef”, Heike Makatsch, Warner Bros., 2009
“Im Mondrausch” Pe Werner, Warner Brothers 2009
“Jetzt singt sie auch noch“ Barbara Schoeneberger, Universal
“The Christmas Album” Till Brönner, Universal
“Chattin with Chet” Till Brönner, Universal
“Love is What Stays” Mark Murphy, Universal
“When the Angels Swing” No Angels, Universal
“Now…Us” No Angels, Universal
“The Jazz Album” Thomas Quasthoff, Deutsche Grammophon
“Tribute to Joe Williams” Bill Ramsey, Hessischer Rundfunk—HR Records
“Introducing Myself” Tom Gabel, Edel Records
“Schlaffstörung” Manfred Krug, BMG
“Aber Schoen, war es doch..” Hildegard Knef, Universal
“A Smooth One“ Karl Schloz, Nagel-Heyer Records
“Jazz from Café Wunderbar” various, Nagel-Heyer Records
“Mama Lilla Would” Vanessa Petruo, Island/Universal
“Bikini Bottom Bossa—Spongebob Squarepants” Bürger Lars Dietrich, Universal
“Damenwahl” Bürger Lars Dietrich, Universal

Born in 1976, Ulf was taught church organ from the age of 8, before he changed to the guitar and founded his first band at the age of 12.
Since then he has sung, played the guitar, electric bass and the drums in numerous bands from pop and rock to soul and jazz, has accompanied a number of gospel choirs on bass and guitar and has played small clubs on his own, with an acoustic guitar and his songs.
Furthermore, he has worked for a number of theatre productions as a theatre musician, composer and musical director, among others, for the „Junges Theater“ in Göttingen.
Ulf lives and works in Berlin.

Maike Koch teaches Alexander Technique.
From 2005 to 2008 she was trained by Dan Armon along the guidelines of the ATVD in Berlin.
The excess of muscle tension and compression created by habits limits the controllability and ease in music making. Pain, muscle hardening and movement restriction are often the results. Health training according to the method of Alexander Technique helps to correct disadvatageous patterns of movement and posture in the long term as well as to avoid pain and muscle hardening.