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*** CONTACT ***
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Martin Meixner
(+49) 01512 - 352.98.64
[email protected]
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*** BIOGRAPHY ***
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Martin Meixner was born in 1981 in Ulm, Germany. He takes his first classical piano lesson at the age of 5. Inspired by his father, who is a bigband and jazz musician, he later becomes very interested in jazz music and in 1994 he starts to take jazz piano lessons under the guidance of his father Sepp Meixner, Otfried Richter, Peter Ströbele, Horst Müller, Akira Sagawa and later
Marcus Baader at the Berufsfachschule für Musik, Krumbach, Germany.
In 2002 he enters the Musikhochschule in Mannheim as a jazz piano student of
Professor Jörg Reiter. During this time and after that he participates in many workshops with
teachers such as Thomas Stabenow, Jose Cortijo, Michael Küttner, Tom van der Geld,
Frank Kuruc, Pat Bianchi, Peter Bernstein, Derreck Gardner, Lewis Nash, Brad Leali, Rob Bargad.
Amongst his numerous performances, he also plays with famous musicians such as klaus anger, michael bublé, helen schneider, cassandra steen, joo kraus, barbara dennerlein, ciaan, tom gaebel, staatsphilharmonie rheinland-pfalz, cherry gehring, renee olstead, michael sagmeister, daniel messina, peter lehel, stefan koschitzki, fabiano pereira, jan-philipp wiesmann, lauschleben, carl-michael grabinger, michael paucker, fola dada, nene, dirk blümlein, jogi weiss, marcel gustke, frank dapper, torsten de winkel, bobby shew, andy haderer, thomas siffling, steffen waltenberger, britta medeiros,...
His current projects include: mit4spiel5 (organic jazz thing), Cassandra Steen (Pop), Steffen Waltenberger (ClubJazz), Fabiano Pereira (Brasil Pop), Sounds Of Love (musically fairy tale), LE Big Band,...
Martin Meixner is winner of the international competition „Startbahn Jazz 2008“ with his band „mit4spiel5“ in Straubing, Germany.
Since 2005 he is working as an piano and hammond organ player, artist, composer and freelance musician.
He frequently performs in several european countries with different bands such as in
Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, Spain, Hungary, Croatia, Czech Republic).
Martin Meixner gives piano lessons in the famous music school "music planet" in Stuttgart.
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*** CD PRODUCTIONS ***
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1997 - Musikschule Weißenhorn "Bells for peace" / Jazz
1999 - Tribal Vibes "Tribal Vibes" / Soul, Funk
2001 - Sharp Nine / Fusion, Funk
2002 - The Chillin..News "On Cue" / Jazz
2002 - Big Band Opus One "That..s Life" / Big Band Jazz
2002 - Igor Schiele "Not for sale" / Soul, Funk
2003 - Grooveholics / Nu Jazz
2003 - Sat.1 "Best of Star Search" / Pop (Polydor / Universal)
2004 - Supermercato / Ska (Holophon / Edel)
2004 - Sampler "Heilbronner Musiknacht" with "BHP" / PopJazz
2005 - Königwerq Single Remix "Zukunftsmusik" (Polydor)
2005 - Lauschleben "wir" Soul / Pop (Lauschlabel)
2007 - Ciaan "Alles was du willst" / Soul, Pop
2008 - SWB "Advanced Clubbing" / (jazznarts)
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*** TV PRODUCTIONS ***
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1997 - BR3 - with Füssener Chor (Bavarian Champions / Game Show)
2000 - BR3 - with Serafinen (Bavarian Champions / Game Show)
2003 - VIVA - with Joey Perrone (VIVA Interaktiv)
2004 - Sat.1 - with Michael Bublé ("Nur die Liebe zählt" / Love Show)
2005 - VIVA - with Renee Olstead (Sarah Kuttner Show)
2005 - ZDF - with Renee Olstead (ZDF Fernsehgarten)
2006 - ARD - live Band "ARD Tigerentenclub" (Ex Disney Club)
2009 - PRO7 - with Cassandra Steen (TV TOTAL)
2009 - PRO7 - with Cassandra Steen (Bundesvision Song Contest)
2009 - RTL II - with Cassandra Steen (the dome 49)
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*** EQUIPMENT ***
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Martin Meixner plays the following instruments:
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- YAMAHA MOTIF 8 XS
- YAMAHA P-120
- YAMAHA M-08
- YAMAHA S-80
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- HAMMOND RT-3 with LESLIE 770
- KORG CX-3
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- FENDER RHODES MARK I
- FENDER RHODES MARK II
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- MOOG "the ROGUE"
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