MICHAEL KÜTTNER

* born 26th of August 1954 in Kiel

* drummer, percussionist, composer

* self-taught

* studies: classical and contemporary music - Academy of Music, Cologne
Jazz - Berklee College Boston, USA
traditional African music - Mustapha Tettey Addy in Accra, Ghana

* style: wide variety of styles, very flexible, melodically rhythms,
influences of African and Indian music

* artistic activities:
° Landesjugend Jazzorchester NRW
° Cantiére d´elle Arte with Hans Werner Henze, Montepulciano Italy
° member of the:
quintet "Key" with Markus Stockhausen and Hugo Read, Michael Sagmeister Group, Peter Gigers Family of Percussion, Ko-Wulu, Lumpp-Read-Küttner, Otto Wolters Innovation Group, Maria João Quintett, Family of Percussion + Albert Mangelsdorff and Wolfgang Dauner, Harvie Swartz - Sheila Jordan Quartett, A.Mangelsdorff and the Members, JATO, "West Side Story" Opera Bonn, solo concerts with "Pictures out of a Drumbook"

° further performances and recordings with:
Charlie Mariano, Steve Swallow, Trilok Gurtu, Kenny Wheeler, Markus Stockhausen, Nana Vasconcelos, Don Cherry, Jiggs Whigham, Dom Um Romão, Mustafa Tettey Addy, Zakir Hussein, U.K. Sivaraman, Gunnar Plümer, Christof Spendel, Michail Urbaniak, Uli Beckerhoff, Allan Praskin, Christof Lauer, Tony Lakatos, Thomas Heidepriem, Dave Liebman, WDR-Bigband, Mike Manieri, Lee Konitz, Dave King, Pat Martino

° tours and concerts in
Austria, Belgium, Danmark, Germany, France, Italy, Israel, Netherlands, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukrainia, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Switzerland, Spain, Mozambique, USA

° concerts sponsered by the German cultural institute Goethe in
Marocco, Tunesia, Algeria, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Zaire, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapur, Indonesia, Phillipines, Sri Lanka and Hungary

° radio and tv activities:
Belgian Broadcast, Bavarian Broadcast, Deutschlandfunk, Deutsche Welle , Hessischer Rundfunk, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Südwestfunk, Radio Warszaw, Radio Cidade Maputo, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, ARD, ZDF, BR, HR3, SWF3, TV SINGAPUR, TV CAMERUN, Radio TV LATVIA

° international festivals:
International Jazzfestival Freiburg, Zeltfestival Freiburg, German Jazzfestival Frankfurt, Jazzhausfestival Köln, International Festival at the Tanzbrunnen Köln, Theaterhausfestival Stuttgart, International Jazzfestival Szeged, Jazzfestival Bern, International Jazzfestival Zürich, Jazz Jambouree in Warschau, Marlboro Festival in Rotterdam, Jazzfestival Leverkusen, International Jazz Yatra in Bombay New Delhi Kalkutta, Tal Vatja Utsav in Bombay and New Delhi, Jazz meets Timbila in Maputo Mozambique, 10th International Drummer Meeting in Koblenz, Modern Music Festival in Riga Latvia, Jazzfestival Maputo, Baltic Drummersummit and Jazzfestival Saulkrasti Latvia.

° teaching activities:
Küttner is a highly respected instructor. He is Professor at the Academy of Music in Mannheim and teaching regulary at the Academy of Music, Cologne as well as giving lessons at the most important Jazz and Percussion clinics in Germany. He is a teacher and a representant at meetings of the IASJ (International Association of Schools of Jazz) internationaly. He publishes regularly a column of teaching materials in the drums&percussion magazine. He wrote contributions to Peter Gigers book "The Art of Ryhthm", published by SCHOTT, Mainz.