biographical info
As a multi instrumentalist I have composed music for most of the instruments I play.
My mother was a music teacher in Germany, where I was born.
The only formal training I received was for the first instruments, recorder and violin.
When an instrument inspired me, I wanted to play it too. I taught myself guitar, where it was the finger picking style that originally attracted me; the piano, where I like Bach, Beethoven and Ragtime. On my first visit to Canada I fell in love with that banjo sound. I taught myself bluegrass.
Finger picking on the banjo has greatly improved my dexterity on the guitar. The violin and the recorder were used now to play celtic melodies. I started composing for the guitar. All styles started to mingle on all instruments.
The music I composed in the Canadian wilderness is technically influenced by everything that I played before. From classic to jazz, from folk to ragtime, from celtic to latin, bluegrass to Spanish, all of these forces are at work.
lineup
Tassilo Hanisch composer,musician
influences
Bach/ Beethoven
bluegrass/ spanish
celtic/ latin
classic/ folk
ragtime/ jazz