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Tunji Beier: percussions, drums, noise ...........................................................................................
........................................................................................... Matthias Loibner was born in 1969 in Austria. His first musical experiences were with piano lessons, guitar and trombone. He continued with studies of composition, jazz composition and conducting in Graz, Austria. Since 1990 hurdy-gurdy has been his primary instrument. After lessons with Barbara Grimm, Valentin Clastrier, Riccardo Delfino and Gilles Chabenat, Matthias won 1st prize at the "Concours des vielles et cornemuses", St. Chartier, France in 1994. He has performed in concerts and recordings solo and with deishovida, Tunji Beier, Rasha, Wafir el Din Gibril, Ruth Yakoov, Ross Daly, Djamchid Chemirani, le concert spirituel, Alex Deutsch, Doug Wimbish, Delmar Brown, Oren Marshall, Riccardo Delfino, Hubert von Goisern, DJ Shantel, and others in Europe, Africa and USA. And he has produced compositions for the ORF (austrian broadcast union) & EBU (european broadcast union). Matthias has been teaching hurdy-gurdy and improvisation since 1994, and is the author of a hurdy-gurdy-method together with Riccardo Delfino.
Tunji Beier began to study Nigerian (Yoruba) drums at the age of ten, later he went to India to study South Indian (Karnatic) percussion with T.A.S. Mani At the age of 19 Tunji formed several cross cultural groups, including Okuta Percussion, Ganpati and Bassama. For several years he has been artistic director of the Bayreuth music festival "Grenzüberschreitungen" (Border Crossings). When he returned to Australia from Macedonia, he founded the Center for Multicultural Music in Perth, later formed multi-cultural groups in New South Wales and Queensland. Performed in Nigeria with leading Yoruba Percussionists including Muraina Oyelami, Ademola Onibonokuta & the Ayandosun family of drummers for installations of Kings, Masquerades & Acrobats, funerals, festivals & many social events. Concerts throughout South India with Karnataka College Of Percussion & famous singers R.A.Ramamani, Raghavendra, Ashok & many other singers and instrumentalists. European Tours with Karnataka College of Percussion & cellist Anup Kumar Biswas. Live jam with Zakir Hussain in Budapest. Wide experience of fusion with African, Indian, Spanish, Indonesian, Norwegian, Macedonian & Classical European music and worked with Markus Stockhausen, Ronald Snijders, Mohamed El Toukhi, Ross Daly, Jaume Bosser, Wafir Sheik El Din, Greg Sheehan, Djamchid Chemirani, Agus Super, Terje Isungset, Satsuki Odamura, Volker Jaekel, Mathew Doyle, Thomas Stronen, Stepanida Borisova (Hulu Project), Linsey Pollak, Mathias Loibner, Hossam Ramsy Spanish & Indian group Amalgama, Keyvan Chemirani, Bijan Chemirani and many others. Collaboration with leading jazz musicians Bill Cobham, Iain Ballamy, Oren Marshal, Ashley Slater, Trilok Gurtu, Randy Weston, Charlie Mariano, Burton Greene, Chris Hinze, Dave King. ........................................................................................... |
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