User:Bassmajor

• Born in 1992 in Bückeburg - Germany (known as the residence of Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach)
  
• Started making music at the age of 4
• First lessons at the age of 5
• Produced first handwritten music at the age of 5
• Keyboard lessons at the age of 6
• First contact with the "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Modest Mussorgsky between 6 and 10, which led to a passion for composing music
• Started composing and producing music actively at 11
• Started playing Drums at 12
• Started playing Electric Bass at 14
• Educated as musical mentor for instrumentalists, conducting and directing ensembles, arranging, music production and event management
• Released his first album with the band "analogue" in 2009
• Started playing contrabass at 17
• Recorded and produced over 15 artists in his private studio
• E-Bass lessons with an Associate Professor of the Osnabrück College since 2010
• Switched from Keyboard to classical Piano lessons at 17
• Theory lessons at the "Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien" - Hannover and the Bückeburg Music School since 2011
• Finished his first Symphony at the age of 18, along with smaller works like Overtures, a string quartet, a two-movement-Variation and accumulated over 250 musical sketches spanning over many genres
• Recently received a scholarship for the 31st international Jazzworkshop in Erlangen-Germany
• Academic Jazz studies beginning in Autumn 2011

Music is and always was my main purpose in life. I am practicing Bass (electric) almost every day from 2 up to 7 hours and write music almost every day aswell. My daily procedures also include ear training with steadily increasing difficulty, atonal music dictations and so on. Besides making music I do sports like body-building, swimming and long-distance-cycling, and I design graphics and deal with astronomy, philosophy and visual arts.

My greatest inspiration was and is the russian composer Modest Mussorgsky whose music I first encountered somewhere between the age of 6 and 10. I immediatly knew that there was no greater meaning in life to me than creating music. The staggering vividness, the metric structure of the "Promenades" and almost every other fact of his "Pictures at an Exhibition" simply captivated me. The list of my current favourite classical composers includes Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Paul Hindemith, Gustav Holst, Claude Debussy, Franz Schubert, Georges Bizet, Antonine Dvořák and many many more...

Jazz and Classical music are my "main" styles of music. The ones that I compose and that I "think music in". To me, Jazz is like the natural evolution of classical music paired with strong influence of the African music tradition and I believe it could last just as long ;) When it comes to Jazz artists, I listen to Esbjörn Svensson, Avishai Cohen, Miles Davis, Duke Jordan, Chet Baker, Louis Armstrong, Art Blakey, Charlie Parker, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, Viktoria Tolstoy, Nils Landgren, Fats Waller, Charles Mingus and almost all artists that were relevant in Jazz history.