Stefan Thaler
Lecturer for Bass & Improvisation (Faculty of Music Education)
Head of Institute for
Improvisation
(Faculty of Music Education)
Artistic Major(s):
Bass, Improvisation
Artistic and pedagogical education
- Bachelor of Arts, Royal Conservatory Den Haag (NL), degree 1999
- Jazz bass, instrumental pedagogy, degree 1999
Teaching & Research
- Lecturer at the JAM MUSIC LAB Private University for Jazz and Popular Music & at the Friedrich Gulda School of Music since 2013
Publications
- Dzihan & Kamien - IV (contributing as bassist) - Couch Records 2021
- Martin Philadelphy Retrograde 2, (contributing bass and composer) 2021
- Federica Ferrari - A Joia Escondida (contributing as bassist) 2020
- Fred Schreiber & Das große Komplott - More than Swing (contributing bassist &arranger) 2017 Willi Landl - Sex Violence (contributing bassist) 2015
- Edgar Tones and the Su'sis (co-arranger) 2016 and many more - approx. 50 CD recordings
Further work experience
- Numerous compositions for theater or commissioned works; among others "Jemand" - a homage to Johann Kresnik. Dance theater production within the framework of the Carinthian Provincial Exhibition - CARINTHIja 2020; premiere 16.07.2021
Prices, awards, miscellaneous
- 1994 with Kaus Paier Accordeon Project in Castelfidardo (Italien)
- 2000 with Caroline de Rooij Group Hilversum (Netherlands)
- 2005 with Martin Lubenov Jazzta Prasta in Vienna