Udo Dahmen (born 12 July 1951 in
Aachen,
West Germany
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) is a
drummer
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Most contemporary western bands that play rock, pop, jazz, or R&B music include a drummer for purposes including timekeeping and embellishing the musical timbre. The drummer' ...
, author and CEO of the
Popakademie Baden-Württemberg.
Life
Udo Dahmen studied classical percussion in
Aachen and
Cologne
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from 1971 to 1976. In
Paris
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he was trained by
Dante Agostini
Dante Agostini (1 April 1921 – 21 April 1980) was an Italian-born French drummer and drumming teacher.
Biography
Agostini was born in Mercatello sul Metauro on 1 April 1921. As a child he moved to the French commune of Sin-le-Noble with hi ...
.
As a session drummer, Dahmen played together with different popular acts such as
Kraan, Eberhard Schöner (feat.
Sting,
Gianna Nannini,
Nina Hagen,
Jack Bruce
John Symon Asher Bruce (14 May 1943 – 25 October 2014) was a Scottish bassist, singer-songwriter, musician and composer. He gained popularity as the primary lead vocalist and bassist of British rock band Cream. After the group disban ...
,
Gary Brooker),
Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman (born 14 August 1960) is an English classical crossover soprano singer, actress and dancer.
Brightman began her career as a member of the dance troupe Hot Gossip and released several disco singles as a solo performer. In 19 ...
,
Lake
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, Inga Rumpf, Charly Mariano and many more. Among those, at least ten records made it to the top ten in Germany.
From 1983 to 2003 Udo Dahmen was professor at the
Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. In 1995 he became president of the European drummers' association
Percussion Creativ
Percussion Creativ is a non-profit organization founded as a network for German-speaking drummers and percussionists, based in Freiburg im Breisgau. Their goal is to promote the music for percussion instruments and their interpreters through excha ...
.
Since 2003, Dahmen is vice president of the German Music Council and director of the Popular Music Department at
Popakademie Baden-Württemberg in
Mannheim
Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's ...
.
Popular Music Department
Popakademie.de/english. Retrieved 2015-08-06
Publications
*Zwischen Kunst und Pädagogik. Profimusiker unterrichten Jazz und Rock, LAG Musik NRW, Remscheid 1992
*Drumbook, AMA-Verlag, Brühl 1994
*Rhythmisches Training. In: Populäre Musik und Pädagogik, Lüneburg 1994
*Musikalische Reisen für Amateure und Profis. In: Populäre Musik und Pädagogik 2, Lüneburg 1996
*Bodypercussion. In: Musik und Unterricht, Velber 1997
References
External links
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Living people
German session musicians
German percussionists
German drummers
German male musicians
Male drummers
German music educators
1951 births