NILS FISCHER & TIMBAZO

WELCOME & THANKS FOR THE VISIT!
2007 Cd release party Timbazo's Cd "¡Gracias Joe Cuba!"
2007 Cubop City Bigband tour "Latin Divas"
2007 Bulgaria/ Serbia tour Drums United
2007 Drums United tour "Ritmo Inferno"
2007 Recording session Doble Jugada
2007 Nueva Manteca tour "Motown Mambo"
2006 Nueva Manteca tour Colombia
2006 Drums United tour "Ritmo Inferno"
2006 Recording session with Ramón & Elsa Valle in Budapest, Hungary
2006 Pure Jazz Festival Cubop City Big Band
2006 writing articles for Dutch Magazine "Slagwerkkrant"
2006 recording sessions in Madrid and in The Netherlands for solo cd
2006 Nueva Manteca tour "My Fair Lady"
2006 Nueva Manteca Croatia
2006 North Sea Jazz Festival Cubop City Big Band
2006 Fabian Nodarse tour Belgium
2006 Drums United tour "World of Rhythm"
2006 Cubop City Big Band tour Bonaire & Curaçao
2006 Cubop City Big Band tour "Latin Vocal Explosion"
2005 Nueva Manteca tour "My Fair Lady"
2005 Drums United tour "World of Rhythm"
2005 Cubop City Big Band tour "Tribute to Afro Cuba"
2005 Cubop City Big Band tour "Latin Guitar Explosion"
2005 Buena Vista Social Club concert in Brussels with a.o. Pio Leiva, El Nene & Cotó
2004 Nueva Manteca tour with Orestes Vilató
2004 North Sea Jazz Festival
2004 Drums United tour "World of Rhythm"
2003 Puerto Rico Heineken Jazz Festival with Nueva Manteca
2003 Nueva Manteca tour "The Westside Story" with Jeroen van Merwijk
2003 Cubop City Big Band Tour "The Mambo Kings"
2002 Trip to Puerto Rico, playing with Michael Stuart (supported by Dutch Ministry of Arts)
2002 till present with FABIAN NODARSE
2002 Nueva Manteca tour with Ralph Irrizarry
2002 Drums United tour "HIT"
2001 Trip to Cuba, playing & recording with members of "Charanga Habanera" (supported by Dutch Ministry of Arts)
2001 Rumbata tour Greece
2001 Gerardo Rosales y su Trabucombo tour with Frankie Vazquez & Roberto Quintero
2001 Euro Radio Big Band Meeting for EBU 
2001 Descarga Amsterdam tour with Brian Lynch
2001 Cubop City Big Band tour with tresero Nelson Gonzales
2001 Cubop City Big Band France
2000 till present joins percussiongroup DRUMS UNITED
2000 Nueva Manteca tour Israel
2000 North Sea Jazz Festival
2000 La Banda Iré in Imatra Finland
2000 Carlos Matos tour
2000 Bomba Moderna France
1999 Trip to New York (supported by Dutch Ministry of Arts)
1999 Tour Bonaire, Sint Maarten, Curaçao & Aruba with the Cubop City Big Band
1999 Rumbata in Cape Verde
1999 Recording concert video with "Combinaçao Malta Dumee" starring Carlos Malta
1999 North Sea Jazz Festival
1999 Cubop City Big Band tour with percussionist Armando Peraza
1999 Carlos Matos tour Cape Verde with Luis Morais and Ildu Lobo
1998 till present percussion teacher at Rotterdams Conservatory (CODARTS)
1998 Nueva Manteca tour with Luis Conte 
1998 Nueva Manteca at Salsa Festival Turku Finland
1998 Carlos Matos tour with Titina
1997 till 2001 with LA BANDA IRÉ, houseband in clubs: Amsterdam's "Meander"
1997 Nueva Manteca tour USA & Canada
1997 Nueva Manteca tour Denmark & Finland
1997 Cubop City Big Band tour with Edy Martinez
1996 Nueva Manteca on Trinidad & Tobago
1996 Nueva Manteca Jazzfestival Kouvola Finland
1996 North Sea Jazz Festival
1996 Cubop City Big Band tour with Chocolate Armenteros
1995 till present with CUBOP CITY BIG BAND
1995 Nueva Manteca tour with Claudio Roditi
1995 Nueva Manteca tour with Bobby Sanabria
1995 Nueva Manteca tour USA
1995 Nueva Manteca tour Germany
1995 Nueva Manteca tour Denmark
1995 “Award for outstanding service to jazz education” in Los Angeles
1994 till present with CARLOS MATOS
1994 Nueva Manteca tour with Orestes Vilató
1994 Nueva Manteca Leeds International Music Festival
1994 North Sea Jazz Festival
1994 Euro Jazz Night TV show 1993 till present teacher at the PENTATON PERCUSSION SCHOOL
1993 Nueva Manteca tour with Armando Peraza
1993 Nueva Manteca tour Porgy & Bess
1992 till present concerts at Dutch concert halls and tv shows such as Van Barend & Dorp, VARA Laat, Reiziger, Klokhuis, Bert Visser.
1992 till present with NUEVA MANTECA 
1992 Nueva Manteca with Giovanni Hidalgo
1991 until today playing in the dutch jazz, worldmusic and Latin scene
1991 till 1996 studies at Rotterdams Conservatory, graduating Cum Laude
1988 tour in California, USA with highschool band
1988 extensive studies in Santiago de Cuba and Havana
1986 till 1991 busy in local jazz, worldmusic and Latin scene
1983 starts playing percussion
1968 born in Bremen, Germany
BIOGRAPHY - TEXT VERSION
Born in 1968 in Bremen , Germany.
Studied in Cuba, Brazil, Puerto Rico and at the Rotterdam conservatory were he obtained his “Masters Degree Percussion” in 1996 cum laude.
He lists as his most important teachers :
Jerry Gonzales/Giovanni Hidalgo/John Santos/Naçao Pernambuco/Armando Peraza/Orestes Vilato/Lucas Van Merwijk/Panga/RobertoVizcaíno/ Anthony Carillo.
Nils’ interest in music started at an early age growing up in a musical family. One of his earliest memories from childhood is father practising guitar for gigs at night. His own instrumental experiences started when he began to attend piano lessons at the age of ten. He remembers: “One day my sister brought home a Paquito de Rivera record (with Daniel Ponce on congas), all I wanted from then on was to play percussion.” At that time, he would have never imagined that 20 years later he would find himself performing with Paquito in San Juan, Puerto Rico!
When he turned nineteen, Nils had a tour with his school band to perform in L.A. and San Francisco. Directly after that, he went for 2 Month to Cuba for extended studies. Later he left to settle in Holland.
The turning point of Nils’ career was when he was asked to join the internationally acclaimed group Nueva Manteca in1992. He recalls: “ My first gig with Nueva Manteca was at one of the most prestigious venues in Amsterdam, Paradiso, and it was packed. Almost the entire band consisted of my teachers. Next to me on stage was Giovanni Hidalgo, who was invited as a special guest for 2 concerts. Really, I was scared shitless behind my timbales! “
But he survived it - and from then on Nils continues to play with Nueva Manteca in many countries.
In 1995 he joined “The Cubop City Bigband”. Over the years, Nils got member of many latin/jazz/worldmusic bands , such as: Rumbatá, La Banda Iré, Leslie Lopez’ Bombaco, Fabian Nodarse Band, Orquesta Gerardo Rosales, Carlos Matos Band, Boy Gé Mendes, Ciento Diez, La Ritmica, Latin Clan, Descarga Amsterdam, Descarga Molote, a.o.
His latest pride is to be member of Drums United, a world percussion orchestra with drummers from Senegal, Bangladesh, Spain, Holland, Suriname and Venezuela.
Nils teaches at the World Music Dept. of the Rotterdam conservatory and at the Pentaton Percussion School in Germany. He gave workshops in Finland and Austria and he is a “Pearl Percussion” clinician. In 1995 he received the award for 'outstanding service to Jazz education' in Los Angeles.