The violinist, fiddler and composer Albrecht Maurer studied violin at the Musikhochschule Köln. In addition, he pursued the study of non-European tonal systems (Johannes Fritsch) and computer music (Klarenz Barlow). He gathered his experience with new and experimental music through intensive work with many composers from the Kagel "school", including Maria de Alvear, Carola Buckholt, and Manos Tsangaris. In the same time he was a member of the Cologne JazzHausInitiative and worked in different bands with keyboards, voice and violin .
Since 1994 Albrecht Maurer has concentrated on the composition and interpretation of partially improvised music. Additionally, he has focused on expanding and re-inventing the violin's musical place: his works are characterized by sounds and loops, a broad timbral spectrum, and percussive imitation and grooves all in combination with the energy of jazz and a classical technique.
In 2002 he started to check the sound and possibilities of a gothic fiddle. Since 2005 he also works in medieval context.
Albrecht Maurer has performed throughout Europe as a soloist, as well as with varying groups, and he is regularly a guest at international festivals. He has worked with many jazz musicians including Kent Carter, Theo Jörgensmann, Wolter Wierbos, Benoit Delbecq, Peter Jacquemyn, Bobo Stenson, Klaus Kugel, Charlie Mariano, Karl Berger, Norbert Stein, Steve Argüelles, Lauren Newton, Katrin Mickiewicz, Ulrich Lask and Barre Phillips.
In early music groups he plays with Katarina Livljanic and Norbert Rodenkirchen (Ensemble Dialogos); Benjamin Bagby and Eric Menzel (Salon Medieval); Norbert Rodenkirchen and Maria Jonas (Residuum).
