Michael Faimann

Michael was born on February 11 in Irnfritz in Waldviertel, Austria. He holds that time and again, playing music live to friends and a good audience is an awesome, exhilarating experience.

His music life began with piano classes during his time at elementary school in his hometown Irnfritz. After many years of classic piano classes, Michael began to explore a new musical department – the jazz feeling and improvisations in the field of jazz standard literature.

Michael asserts that he acquired technical knowledge of the snare drum thanks to his membership in a brass band. He discovered the drum set as a teenager during his time at secondary school in Krems and became familiar with the international greats of jazz and rock. The first concert Michael ever attended was a performance by the John McLaughlin Trio, instilling in him a passion for music. Michael spent one year with the Military Marching Band of the province of Lower Austria. Following this, he studied Music Education at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and Physical Education at the University of Vienna. Michael collected first studio experience with the big band Arkestra in 1996. During his first years in the teaching profession as a secondary school teacher, he spent more time in sports than in musical activity. In 2009, he answered to the renewed beck and call of music and became a member of the rock band Eardrum Invasion. Since March 2011, he has been responsible for the good groove at patchwork.fm.
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