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Stephan Emig from Hannover studied drums & percussion at Modern Music School Giessen and later at Los Angeles Music Academy. He is a working professional musician since 1998.
His credits include:
Hamid Baroudi (Dissidenten), Triosence, Jimmy Dillon (Robert Cray Band), Joy Basu (Jeniffer Lopez, Jessica Simpson), D-Phunk, Q-Bic, chillgmbh, Christina Lux, Drumconnection, Dirk & Jan-Heye Erchinger, DJ Airknee (Jazzkantine), Mäddi Tation, Jan-Peter Eckelmann, Cuba Libre, Marten Andersson (Lizzy Borden), Stolle & Band, Landesjugendjazzorchester Hessen, Jean-Marc Belkadi, Pepe Berns, Christian Weidner, Andreas Gundlach, Nene Vasquez, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowski, Uschi Brünning, ...
His bands had guest-performances by Till Brönner, El Houssaine Kili, Sigi Finkel and others
He played drums & percussion for the state-theatre of Kassel (Little White Horse, Black Rider, Hair and Romeo & Juliett) and for the musical Elisabeth in Eisenach as well as for the Musical Bonifatius in Fulda which were both voted "Short Term Musical of the Year" (2005 and 2007).
His concert-credits include Montreal Jazzfestival, Winnipeg Folkfest, WOMADs in Singapore, Australia, Europe, UN against Racism South Africa, Anna Lind Stiftung, Egypt, lots of festivals and club gigs on every continent exept South America :-(
Stephans bands were featured in Stern Magazine, Jazzpodium, JazzThing, Piano News, Sticks, Drums & Percussion, Modern Drummer, Drumheads, DLF, Arte, 3Sat, ARD, ZDF, HR Radio und TV, WDR TV, Medya TV, SR, BBC, CNN Worldbeat, a.o..
He recorded for Horus Sound Studio Hannover, Pauler Acoustics Northeim, Vielklang Studios Berlin, Deutschlandfunk, Rainbow Studios Oslo, Mastergroove Studios Granada Hills, Westlake Audio Los Angeles, Green Hill Audio, Parnass Studio, a.o.
He won the youth jazz combo competition in Hessen 1994 and 2000, German Rock-Pop-Award 2000, national youth jazz combo competition 2001, Jazzaward of the Westfahlenfestival, Support- and the Arts-Award of the government of Kassel 2001 and 2002. With Triosence he reached place 4 at the finals of the international jazzcompetition of Hoeilaart, Belgium, 2005. The first two Triosence CDs were nominated for the "German Critics Award".
With Hamids CD Sidi he reached no.6 in the euopean world-music charts and you can find exerpts of that CD on major world-music-sampler-CDs from Putumayo, Real World, Virgin Records and others.
Triosence CD "Away for a while" stayed in the German International Jazz Top 20 for half a year. Their third CD "When You Come Home" (Sony) released February 2008 also made its way into the jazz-charts and the tour band did a big tour through Germany and Switzerland, which helped bring their music to a bigger audience then before.
He is proud to be endorsed by
Sonor Drums,
Zildjian Cymbals,
Remo Drumheads
Rohema Drumsticks
and
Ableton Live.
With Dirk Brand he released the book Future Drumming at AMA and with Altaf Vellani African Drumming. 2008 he released the DVD "ritmo del mundo 1.0 - for drummers and percusionists" together with Nené Vásquez.
He is teaching private lessons in Hannover and Braunschweig.
Since 2003 he is touring clinician for Sonor Drums and is now playing shows together with Nene Vasquez (Shakira, Celia Cruz) and their project "ritmo del mundo".
Please also checkout these websites:
triosence
cuba libre
Ritmo del Mundo
hamid baroudi
chillgmbh
Stephan Emig website
