{"id":146,"date":"2015-08-19T14:22:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T14:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markus-stauss.ch\/?page_id=146&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2015-11-07T14:23:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T14:23:46","slug":"biografie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.markus-stauss.ch\/en\/biografie\/","title":{"rendered":"Biografy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_third-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_third-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_third-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb av_one_third  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_image-133b0e1e6c1791e4274a10c990c042c3\">\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-133b0e1e6c1791e4274a10c990c042c3 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-133b0e1e6c1791e4274a10c990c042c3 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-av_image-133b0e1e6c1791e4274a10c990c042c3 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-592 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-592 avia_image ' src='https:\/\/www.markus-stauss.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Foto_Markus-Stauss_Biografie.jpg' alt='' title='Foto_Markus Stauss_Biografie'  height=\"284\" width=\"211\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_two_third-2a64de42b738552fe666ca889af77e28\">\n.flex_column.av-av_two_third-2a64de42b738552fe666ca889af77e28{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_two_third-2a64de42b738552fe666ca889af77e28 av_two_third  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>Markus Stauss\u00a0<\/strong>was born on September 10, 1954 in Basle where he passes all steps to social incorporation from kindergarten (in Riehen) up to his Bachelor degree and the first semester at the Basle University, where he is taking history courses. He enrols in his obligatory military service at the French speaking Swiss-French border town Vallorbe in the Swiss Jura mountains. Follows his primary teacher diploma in Basle; he teaches there until July 2015 as an advanced level part time teacher, teaching music, math, drawing and some natural science.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_full-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_full-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_full-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb av_one_full  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>He begins his <strong>own musical education<\/strong> in 1972, taking flute lessons with G. Marini (until 1975). Later he enrols in a music teaching education program for primary school level (1974-1976). The same year he takes up saxophone courses with R. Fisch, in 1977 changing to Ch. Bader, where in addition to the saxophone lessons he picks up the basics in theory of music. In 1991 he turns to Franziska Heiniger for recorder lessons in Medieval and Renaissance music. In a self taught manner he conducts studies in the development of Hard Rock, Free Jazz and Jazz Rock, as well as in that of medieval music.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>At that time he starts his own and quite diversified <strong>music teaching<\/strong> activity as classroom teacher for music, is involved in developing teaching curricula for the midlevel student classes and also in continued education for music teachers, but also a saxophone teacher at Hug, Basle and in private. He is approaching his public also by sharing his historic and theoretical knowledge, lecturing about Hard Rock, Jazz Rock and Free Jazz. This very pronounced activity in learning and teaching is a sideline though to the development of the saxophonist Markus Stauss and to that of the band leader Stauss who is founding (sometimes joining existing) Free Funk, Jazz, Folk, Blues, Rock and Jazz Rock formations and groups, but also to that of the flutist and chamber musician Markus Stauss.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>After <strong>&#8220;Witchcraft&#8221;<\/strong> he founds the &#8220;Trio Infernal&#8221; together with Jacques Widmer, the group with which he makes his first recording &#8220;Zwischenspiel&#8221; (Interlude). This record is taken note of by the most important Swiss Jazz commentator of the time, J\u00fcrg Solothurnmann who gives it a splendid review in his very prominent weekly Jazz talk show on the national radio DRS. Already earlier Stauss had caught the ears from several concert organisers: In 1983 he is on stage at the famous &#8220;Willisau Jazz Festival&#8221; with the &#8220;Trio Infernal&#8221;, but also with the &#8220;City-6-tett&#8221;. The year after he is invited to perform at the &#8220;Jazzdays Biel&#8221;; that same year he receives a commission from Belluard-Bollwerk International Fribourg for a BBI production in the context of the its &#8220;big band summit&#8221; \u2013 for this purpose he founded the &#8220;Gezeiten Orchestra&#8221; (tides orchestra). Already 1983 with the City-6-tett, he celebrated the 1992 10th anniversary of this extremely groovy Basle band, whose second &#8220;city-6-tett&#8221; cassette will always be considered a pearl of the Swiss Jazz sound documents.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Until 1985 he is active member of the <strong>&#8220;Musikwerkstatt Basel&#8221;<\/strong> (Basle music workshop), under whose label &#8220;Xopf-Records&#8221; he later will be publishing 1 LP and 4 CDs. This series documents his collaboration since 1988 with the American Free Funk and Noise scene. Dimthingshine (dr), David Moss (dr, voc) and John King (g) from the American end, Dieter Ulrich (dr), Joseph Poffet (s) and Remy Str\u00e4uli (dr) from the Swiss End are often partners in this collaboration, while Jean Chaine (b) from Vermont\/U.S.A. is the steady partner. This collaboration under the group heading &#8220;ulterior lux&#8221; culminates in 1996 in the production of the CD &#8220;evergreen&#8221;. In April 1997 another &#8220;Ulterior Lux&#8221; recording is published.<br \/>\nAll together five records (LPs and CDs) document the long musical research he engaged with his <strong>rock group &#8220;\u00dcberfall&#8221;<\/strong> (&#8220;Hold-up&#8221;), founded together with Pit Kayser. These historic data demonstrate Stauss&#8217; interest in continuity; he works with his groups over long years and develops music with them as long as he can still perceive new musical ground on the horizons. &#8220;Adventurers like \/ with somnambulatory certainty \/ penetrating massive thicket \/ digging hidden treasures \/ extracting fascinating preciousness&#8221; was the working maxim for 1997.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>As the adventure Music becomes more and more exiting and challenging, Stauss retracts more and more from live performance and stage appearance in order to invest his energy in the own <strong>music making and composing<\/strong>, as opposed to spend it looking around for organisers and places, where doing gigs and going on stage still is possible. As off 1992 he is most interested in saxophone \/ bass \/ drums formations, its for them he writes music, &#8220;develops playing concepts&#8221;. Stauss rarely communicates in writing or vocally; if ever, it is short, with shreds and scraps, mainly in the titles of his compositions and his added commenting line(s): &#8220;so froh&#8221;, f\u00fcr Alle die, die uns sagen wollen, wo&#8217;s lang geht&#8221; \/ &#8220;so nice&#8221; for all those who want to tell us, what&#8217;s on&#8221;. It&#8217;s in the events he talks about and through the stories he tells, where one can sense his professional and moral yardsticks and reference points \u2013 a professional with high demands on the musicians craftsmanship, on his own creativity and that of others; he&#8217;s a man with a clear perception of (also political) ethics: he refused a gig for SANDOZ, when the near GAU pollution event happened at their site Schweizerhalle.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Stauss in private is more of a <strong>restrained person<\/strong>, very clear in his convictions, utterly himself, a musician of &#8220;ecstatic power&#8221;, though unexpectedly a profound conceptual and theoretic. He is a nervous traveller, has no car and never saw an aircraft from the inside \u2013 he probably will never ever, nor is he currying favours to make himself understood \u2013 some nevertheless catch the message, seem to understand and are able to verbalise, what (probably) makes the guy tick (see also &#8220;Others on Markus Stauss and his music&#8221;).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Appendix: Markus Stauss did play with these musicians.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hans Anliker, Bernhard Batschelet, Heiri Baumgartner, Han Bennink, Bratko Bibic, Beat Blaser, Peter B\u00f6hringer, Paolo &#8220;Ske&#8221; Botta, Daniel Bourquin, Werner Broger, Stephan Brunner, Damien Campion, Pietro Cavedon, Jean Chaine, Ellen Christi, Valerio Cipollone, Olivier Clerc, Anthony Coleman, Laurent Delchambre, Michel Delville, Ueli Derendinger, Dimthingshine, Runo Erikson, Caroline Fahrni, Maurizio Fasoli, Stephan Felber, Roland von Fl\u00fce, Beat F\u00f6llmi, Leon Francioli, FRENCH TV, Heinz Geisser, Samuel Gerstmans, Kurt Gr\u00e4miger, J\u00fcrg Grau, Pit Gutmann, Thomi Hirt, Jonathan Kane, Pit Kayser, John King ELECTRIC WORLD, Urs Koller, Anita Kuster, Sigi Kutterer, Andr\u00e9 Lembl\u00e9, David Leclair, Tommaso Leddi, H.Lukas Lindenmaier, Ruedi Linder, Lars Lindvall, Werner L\u00fcdi SUNNYMOON, Elia Mariani, Michel Massot, MATTERHORN \u2013 PROJECT, Guerino Mazzola, Martin Metzger, David Moss, Andr\u00e9 M\u00fcller, G\u00fcnter M\u00fcller, Mani &#8220;Guru&#8221; Neumeier, Giuseppe Olivini, Ingeborg Poffet, Joseph Poffet (JoPo) &amp; CITY \/ 6 \/ TETT, Felix Probst, Dargo Raimondi, ARTEMONDI, Mathias Rissi Q 4 ORCHESTRA, Urs R\u00f6llin, Hahn Rowe, Dani Schaffner, Alex Schaub, Dani Schenker, Uli Scherrer, Jan Schlegel, Peter A. Schmid, Mattia Sign\u00f2, Christian Specker, Daniel Stalder, R\u00e9my Str\u00e4uli, Doro Sch\u00fcrch, Marco Trosi, Frances-Marie Uitti, Dieter Ulrich, Beat Untern\u00e4hrer, Beno\u00eet Viredaz, Olivier Vogt, Christian Weber, Thomas Weiss, Jacques Widmer, Wietn Wito, Francesco Zago, Philipp Zehnder and others.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div><span class=\"small\">March 1997 \/ June 2003 \/ Feb. 2006 up dated version \/ Hans &#8211; Christoph von Imhoff, Fribourg &amp; Vicosoprano, author of &#8220;Markus Stauss &#8211; Biografy&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"small\">Since Nov. 2009 up dates by Markus Stauss\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-146","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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