Matthias Bauer is a double bass player, improviser and composer based in Berlin. He is specialised in contemporary music and performed a large repertoire of solo compositions for double bass. He played with many internationally renowned musicians of the free improviser scene and took part in various ensembles and festivals. A central concern is his own solo performance incorporating the voice. Bauer has written music for smaller and larger ensembles as well as for theatre and dance.
Current projects: • Solo • Alchimia Organica with Maria Lucchese • Bauer/Bauer/Narvesen with Conny Bauer, Dag Magnus Narvesen • Der Dritte Stand with Matthias Müller, Rudi Fischerlehner • Sog with Lina Allemano, Uwe Oberg, Rudi Fischerlehner • Unzeit Quartett with Frank Paul Schubert, Céline Voccia, Joe Hertenstein • Masual with Alex Nowitz, Sukandar Kartadinata
discography (selection): • Berlin Abbozzi (FMP) Bill Dixon, Klaus Koch, Tony Oxley • Kryonics (Emanem) John Rose, Alex Kolkowski • Sven Ake Johansson Quintett (hatOLOGY) Axel Dörner, Rudi Mahall, Sten Sandell • Bauer 4 (Jazzwerkstatt) Conny Bauer, Johannes Bauer, Louis Rastig • The Gift (LP NoBusiness Records) Conny Bauer, Matthias Bauer, Dag Magnus Narvesen • ACM (AUT Records) Anna Kaluza, Céline Voccia • Berlin Art Quartet (unisono Records) Matthias Schubert, Matthias Müller, Reinhard Brüggemann • Sog (creativsource records) Lina Allemano, Uwe Oberg, Rudi Fischerlehner • Unzeit Quartett (Trouble In The East Records) Frank Paul Schubert, Céline Voccia, Joe Hertenstein