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Marcio Doctor

About Me

NEWS:
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Marcio has recently received a GRAMMY AWARD for his collaboration as a soloist on the live CD "Some Skunk Funk" Randy Brecker with Michael Brecker, Will Lee, Jim Beard, Peter, Erskine, Marcio Doctor and the WDR-Bigband arr./cond. by Vince Mendoza.
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Marcio Doctor was born in 1965 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Marcio's musical approach is influenced by his studies of different ethnic music traditions . He belongs to a new generation of contemporary percussionists that feel at home in an wide variety of musical situations, retaining at the same time his own voice.
Marcio began playing percussion at the age of five and over the years studied drumset with Horacio Gianello, percussion and piano in Buenos Aires. Parallel to that he studied Computer Systems Analysis and was awarded his Bachelors Degree. In his early professional years he played percussion and drums in local bands as well as in film, TV, theater and contemporary dance productions. In the late 80's he toured extensively in Argentina and Brazil with the group "Comedia".
He moved to Europe in 1989 and settled down in Hamburg, Germany, in 1990, where he still lives with his wife and two children. There he studied hand drumming and percussion with Mark Nauseef - who became his mentor - and also with the legendary Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu. He had soon established himself as a highly sought after collaborator for international groups performing as well as recording extensively as a studio musician. In 1997 he studied ethnic percussion with Glen Velez und Jamey Haddad in New York. Then undertook further studies of Indian percussion with master percussionists Trichy Sankaran und T.R. Sundaresan.
Since 1995 Marcio has been a member of the acclaimed NDR-Bigband (the jazz orchestra of the North German Radio). With this band he has performed on numerous recordings, concerts and tours with renowned artists such as: Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Abdulah Ibrahim, Lionel Hampton, Maria Schneider, Kenny Wheeler, Michael Gibbs, Tim Hagans, Steve Gray, John Taylor, George Gruntz, Colin Towns, Norma Winstone, João Bosco, Al Jarreau and Bobby McFerrin among many others.
In addition, as a freelancer and featured soloist, Marcio has performed and or recorded with: the Carla Bley Bigband, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Peter Erskine, María João Quartet, the WDR-Bigband, Vince Mendoza, Dino Saluzzi, Jon Faddis, Nils Landgren, Michel Portal, Will Lee, Jim Beard, Rosa Passos, Dhafer Youssef, Lalo Schifrin, Joachim Kühn, Paquito D'Rivera, David Liebman, Steve Swallow, Adam Nusbaum, Mark Feldman, Marcel Khalife, the Mask Orchestra, the Metropole Orkest, Osvaldo Golijov, Dawn Upshaw, the Hannover Philharmonic Orchestra and the Ensemble Absolute, among many others. Live performances have included concert tours through Europe, South and Central America, Canada and the U.S.A, Israel, Lebanon, China, Singapore, Thailand, South Africa and Mozambique.
Percussion arrangements and playing for film soundtracks include: "Rose", "Tee Tattoo", "Die Rote Jacke" (awarded with an Oscar for best Student Film 2003), "Anam", "Das wahre Leben", "Mein Herz in Chile" a.o.; as well as for radio plays (Hörspiele) like "Träume" by Günter Eich, "Red is my name" by Orhan Pamuk, "Wassermusik" T.C. Boyle a.o. and for the aquatic circus "Crescend'O in Paris, France.
As a teacher, Marcio has been a regular guest professor at the "Hamburger Musikhochschule" and for many years has given percussion and rhythm workshops at various music universities around Germany and Switzerland as well as workshops in Beijing, Toulon, La Paz, São Paulo and Mexico City.
Marcio is a founding member, percussionist and co-producer of the group "Tango Crash", an electro-tango group that takes the tango tradition into the 21st. century. The group was awarded the prestigious World Music Price "RUTH" for Newcomer band of the year 2003.
His debut album as a band leader "Restless World"was released on the British label "Provocateur Records" to great acclaim of the press and was selected as ..14 among the top 20 albums of the year 2001 by Jazz Review Magazine (Great Britain).
As a composer he has written music for various jazz ensembles as well as music for radio plays, radio features, theater and dance. In 2005 Marcio wrote the music for the theater piece "Idyllen" based on text by the Dadaist Austrian poet Ernst Jandl, directed by Adelheid Mütter and performed by "Meine Damen und Herren" - an ensemble of 13 mentally challenged actors - at the prestigious Kampnagel theater complex in Hamburg. The album "Idyllen" has been chosen as "Best Hamburg Album of the Year 2006" in the Hamburg Szene Magazine.
His music has also been featured on Chicago Public Radio - on the program "RE:Sound" presented by the Third Coast Audio Festival in January 2007.
Current projects include the soundtrack for two experimental animation short films by Lars Henkel and Anja Struck - www.reflektorium.de

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 15/04/2007
Band Website: www.marciodoctor.com
Sounds Like: CONTACT:

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SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY:

RESTLESS WORLD - Marcio Doctor

IDYLLEN - Marcio Doctor

ZEITRAUM - Peter Bolte & Marcio Doctor

. . . click [here] to order the albums. . .

SOME SKUNK FUNK - Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker, Will Lee, Jim Beard, Peter Erskine, Marcio Doctor and the WDR big band cond. by Vince Mendoza

REVOLUTIONS - Jim Beard with Vince Mendoza and the Metropol Orchestra

ORTE- Raymond Theler / Marcio Doctor / Mark Nauseef / Walter Quintus

BAILÁ QUERIDA - Tango Crash

OTRA SANATA - Tango Crash

TANGO CRASH - Tango Crash

TRÄUME - Hörspiele von GÜNTER EICH

CLAP YOU - Claudio Puntin

FRANK ZAPPA'S HOT LICKS - Colin Towns + NDR Big Band

ROT IS MEIN NAME - (Orham Pamuk) - Claudio Puntin

PORTRAIT OF A BAND - Nils Wogram + NDR Big Band
TEA TATTOO - Soundtrack - Claudio Puntin
NONSEQUENCE - Michael Gibbs
THE THEATRE OF KURT WEILL - Colin Towns + NDR Big Band
LINGO - Stefan Bauer, Claudio Puntin & Marcio Doctor

REVIEWS:

“The beauty flourishes here unexpectedly on repeated listening. Among the smithereens and scoriae, delicate colorfull flowers glow, enough for a whole meadow. Gorgeous!” JazzThetik Magazine (Germany) – “Idyllen” CD Review

“Marcio Doctor is once again a Grenzgänger that creates his own way through drumming” Lüneburger Zeitung (Germany)

"An Aesthete of sound from Argentina." Sticks Magazine (Germany/Switzerland/Austria)

"A bold brave work from a musician who knows how to create atmosphere." Echoes Magazine (Great Britain)

"Doctor has penned a majestic set of compositions, hard-nosed and dangerous." Amazon.UK - “Restless World” CD Review

"Intense and atmospheric stuff." Netbeat.com - “Restless World” CD Review

"Percussionist par excellence." Drums & Percussion Magazine (Germany)

Record Label: Provocateur Records-Schoener Hören-JazzHausMusik
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Percussion Workshop at the Royal College of Music in London

Marcio has been invited to give a percussion workshop at the Royal College of Music in London/England.The workshop will take place on May 18th 2009
Posted by on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:33:00 GMT

"Strandbeesten" shown at festivals in Canada and Poland

The film "Strandbeesten" - for which Marcio wrote the soundtrack - will be screeneed at two other film festivals : DocFilm Festival in Gdansk/Poland and at the FIFA "International Festival of Films on...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:28:00 GMT

Wir Wirtschaftswunderkinder - 60 Jahre BRD // Radio Feature auf NDR-Info

Radio Feature mit Musik von Marcio Doctor__________________________________________Ostermontag, 13.04.2009 11.05 - 12.00 Uhr, NDR Info 92,3Wir Wirtschaftswunderkinder60 Jahre BRDFeature von Rainer Mor...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:02:00 GMT

"Strandbeesten" film shown at film festivals

The film "Strandbeesten" - for which Marcio wrote the soundtrack - will be shown at two prestigious film festivals in November: Documentary Film Festival in Kassel/Germany and "Camerimage" in LódZ/Pol...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:47:00 GMT

New Albums

Three new albums available!"Revolutions" - Jim Beard with Vince Mendoza and the Metropol Orchestra."Bailá querida" - TangoCrash."Orte" - Raymond Theler / Marcio Doctor / Mark Nauseef / Walter Quintus
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:49:00 GMT

June News

Marcio has been invited to join Argentine-born American composer Osvaldo Golijov and his ensemble for a series of concerts in Europe performing the piece "Ayre" featuring soprano singer Dawn Upshaw.M...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:25:00 GMT

www.marciodoctor.com is being updated

The website www.marciodoctor.com is being updated... and will be back online soon... in the meantime I can be reached at this email address: [email protected]
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:55:00 GMT

Strandbeesten coming to Hannover

The Dutch kinetik sculptor Theo Jansen will be presenting his creations called "Strandbeesten" at the Opernplatz in Hannover and at the Landesmuseum in Hannover between September 26th and 28th.There w...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 07:14:00 GMT

Die andere Geschichte: Radio-Feature with Music by Marcio Doctor

---------------------------"Die andere Geschichte" Radio-Feature about the victims of the RAF by Anne Ameri-Siemens. Directed by Hartwig Tegeler. Produced by Ulrike Toma for the NDR. Music by Marcio D...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:11:00 GMT