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Reserve your place for the Berlin Drum Week now. Space is extremly limited!
The following drummers have already confirmed their attendance:
Prof. Udo Dahmen, Ash Soan, Stephan Emig, Ralf Humphrey, Mike Sturgis, Dirk Erchinger.
More information on our website.
Reserve your place for the Berlin Drum Week now. Space is extremly limited!
The following drummers have already confirmed their attendance:
Prof. Udo Dahmen, Ash Soan, Stephan Emig, Ralf Humphrey, Mike Sturgis, Dirk Erchinger.
More information on our website.
Reserve your place for the Berlin Drum Week now. Space is extremly limited!
The following drummers have already confirmed their attendance:
Prof. Udo Dahmen, Ash Soan, Stephan Emig, Ralf Humphrey, Mike Sturgis, Dirk Erchinger.
More information on our website.
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(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 was 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’…
(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.
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!
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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
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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.
Andi Bühler takes part in many different projects as constant musical ingredient and sound-artist.
He studied performance&pedagogy at the Swiss Jazz School (Ch) and at the Drummer’s Collective (NY).
Besides his escapades as a mandolin-player, singer and orchestra-leader, his passion has always been the drums and rhythm.
His teaching-concepts are applied through his lessons and workshops in Berlin and his rhythmic-seminars in Tuscany, Italy.
Recent bands and projects:
Playmobeat (Drumtrio)
Electric Krause (Pink Floyded Jazz)
The BootyJive (New Orleans Funk)
Céline Rudolph (Afro-Brasil-Jazz)
VallesantaCorde (Folk)
Hauptstadtoper (Theater-Art)
For more than 25 years Chris Heiny is part of the active drumming community. Born 1971 in the South of Germany Chris auditioned and won the most famous regional championship amongst young musicians “Jugend musiziert” in his county Baden-Württemberg at the age of 16. Educated in classical music he also took lessons at the Future Musicschool in Aschaffenburg as well as workshops und master classes with Gary Cheaffey, Will Calhoun, Udo Dahmen, Gregg Bisonette, Thomas Lang, René Kramer and Claus Hessler.
Having toured with many bands (Mariannenplatz, Joachim Deutschland, Bosse to name a few) and played for several TV and live shows, Chris has performed with the international show Blue Man Group throughout Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Austria. Chris Heiny is currently living and working as a freelance educator in drums and percussion in Germany’s most exiting city for professional musicians, Berlin.
Chris Heiny has endorsement deals with Paiste, Kirchhoff Schlagwerk and Ice Stix. With his very own drumming project Playmobeat, a rhythm section with two other professional drummers, he made his dream of creating new kit sounds and playing highly entertaining drum songs come true.
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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
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.
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(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.
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.
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”.
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)
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Born 1984 in a small town called Halberstadt, Felix´ family moved to Berlin, when he was about three years old. At the same time he started to play the drums. As son of a well known guitar player and thus growing up in a musical family, his childhood was a never-ending jam session between Felix and his dad Michael Lehrmann – which lasts up to this day. Taking only private lessons with different teachers through the years, Felix found in Kenny Martin 2001 not only a mentor but also a good friend. After playing in numerous semi-pro bands, Felix Lehrmann started his professional career at the age of 17, when playing his first european tour with a singer called Della Miles.
He still had to go to school for two more years to receive his graduation in 2004, but in the meantime he could not be stopped to play as many gigs and studio session as he could (or as many as his mother, who is a school teacher, allowed him to do) After finishing school, Felix immediately went on tour with a german TV star and singerYvonne Catterfeld, which lasted for two years. From that point on, he never looked back and ever since his schedule has been filled with tours, studio dates and clinics around the globe! Until now he has been working with Dendemann, Sarah Connor, Aloe Blacc, Tata Young, Jennifer Rush, Orange Blue, Guru, Nneka, Oceana, Jeanette Biedermann, Estelle, Lena Meyer-Landrut, Thomas Godoj, Talib Kwali, Kurtis Blow, Marc Medlock, Torsten Goods, Peter Weniger, Miss Dynamite, Jaguar Wright, Bahamadia, Zasha Moktan, Beatnuts, Valentine, Patrice, Ayo, Denyo, Jan Delay, Roland Balogh,… (just to name a few)
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.
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.
(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.
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).
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.
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.
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”…
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.