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Last Update 10.12.11.

Responsible for the content of this website is Timon Thalwitzer. Vienna, Austria.

Timon Thalwitzer is a drummer, mathematician, and musicologist living in Vienna, Austria.

1983 born in Vienna


musical education:

  1. -since 1996 drumset in various rock-, punk-, metal-, world-, jazz-, indie- and other bands. private lessons with various teachers (e.g. Moritz Pedarnig)

  2. -1999 - 2000 classical violin (Musikschule Wien)

  3. -2005 - 2006 jazz at UCC (University College Cork, Ireland) with Paul O Donnell, jazz drums with Conor Guilfoyle

  4. -since 2006 participation at various jazz-, rock-/pop-, samba-, and african drumming-seminars and workshops, with teachers including Walter Grassmann, Herbert Pirker, Klemens Marktl, Mario Gonzi, Shayan Fathi, Edison Tadeu, Herwig Stieger, Richard Filz, Benno Sterzer, Gerhard Kero.

- 2006 - 2007 Gustav Mahler Konservatorium (Vienna), jazz drums with Christian Mühlbacher and Reinhardt Winkler

- 2007 - 2008 jazz drum lessons with Klemens Marktl, classical percussion lessons with Heinz Hartlieb (Musikschule Wien)

- since 2008 jazz drums with Herbert Pirker, Alexander-Technik with Christina Hirt


academic education:

  1. -2001 enrolls at the University of Vienna. subject: mathematics

  2. -2003 enrolls for musicology

- 2005 - 2006 mathematics and music at UCC (University College Cork, Ireland)

  1. -2008 diploma completion (mathematics). diploma thesis: „Max-Flow Min-Cut. Reconciling Graph Theory with Linear Programming“ (published 2009 by VDM Publishing House, Saarbrücken; tutor: Christian Krattenthaler)

  2. -2010 participatory musicological field research in Recife (Pernambuco, Brazil) about Maracatu de Baque Virado

  3. -2011 musicological field research in Crete (Greece)

  4. -2012 jan-apr: field trip to Recife (Pernambuco, Brazil) prospected diploma completion: june 2012 (musicology). diploma thesis: Maracatu de Baque Virado, tutor: Regine Allgayer-Kaufmann

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