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wolfgang zamastil

About Me

cellist, composer [austria *1981]
education: studied music (cello) in austria and germany (+ graduation) [teachers: w. tachezi, c. hagen, m. sanderling, jp maintz]
1996-1999 tango nuevo period... performer and arranger for the group anochesido
2001: founded his own ensemble for modern music [ www.myspace.com/zcontinuum ]
lots of compositions for children/kids ( www.musikvarner.de ), composition classes for younger students in berlin, salzburg and la rioja/spain.
since 2003: as a performer "master classes" with boulez, lachenmann, birtwhistle, (etc.) ensemble intercontemporain, scholarship from ensemble modern [1 year], concerts on all the most important festivals for modern clssical music.
as a composer: first performances in linz (brucknerhaus), berlin (several) and semperoper dresden (staatskapelle)
scores, sounddesign for several german shortfilms, dvds.
denied an offer of the british universal music producer pete briquette to produce a popalbum in england 2004 with his former band "wine stained shoes".
four cd productions with his ensemble "continuum" : "inicio" [2003], "vueltas" [2004] , "a la inmensa minoria" [2007] , "aguacil" [2007]
2005-2007: concerts/performances with ensemble modern, kammerensemble neue musik berlin, ensemble adapter, the bakery , ensemble intercontemporain, bassgasse 3 bassgasse 3 and his own ensemble continuum . lives and works in berlin
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 28/04/2007
Band Website: http://www.zamastil.de
Influences: feldman, cage, doors, aperghis, elliot smith, minimal techno, lachenmann, deep house, detroit, dino saluzzi, piazolla, beatles, g.p.poletti, ivano fossati, varese, zappa, some reggae stuff, brel, jon brion, pink floyd, mingus, weather report, return to forever, fabrizio de andre, grisey, sciarrino, saed haddad, colin hay, john carpenter, lisa germano, sagardía, lhasa, new school of vienna, furrer, vai, vienna art orchestra, classical impressionistic period, indian music, balkan folk music, greek folk, gerardo nunes, fado, dobrek's bistro, xenakis, walter zimmermann, boulez, friedrich haas, ligeti, benjamin, beck, randy newman, steely dan, and everything i forgot here.
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