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Mark Tavassol

Mark Tavassol (* 18. February 1974 in Bremen) is a German musician, composer, songwriter, singer, music producer and MD. He got well-known as bass player and guitarist of the band Gloria.

Tavassol is son of an Iranian father and a German mother and lived in Teheran in his first years. After the Abitur he studied medicine in Hamburg and got his degree in 2001.

He joineed the band “Wir sind Helden” and he works in several TV productions as in a late-night-show.

His humanitarian engagement is for several organisations:

Benny Adrions organisation Viva con Agua
With Bela BMarcel Eger and Renate Eger he is founder of the “Viva con Agua Stiftung”. Beneficial football game Kicken mit Herz.

Beside Wir sind Helden he works as musician and songwriter for Emma6 (Paradiso),[4] Olli Schulz,[5] Jessica McIntyre (Sam Ragga Band) or Ingo Pohlmann.
With TV-Moderator Klaas Heufer-Umlauf he founded the band Gloria
It can be seen as political engagement that he directs the studio band of the show Late Night Berlin.

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‎Gloria – Album von GLORIA – Apple Music

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Alexander Backendorf

Alexander spielt in der Band “VierZuViel” in Essen.

plays in the band “VierZuViel”  (FourTooMuch) in Essen/Germany.

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Irmtraud Tarr

Irmtraud Tarr is an internationally active concert organist. She can be heard on many CD, radio, and television recordings, many of them on historical instruments. Her preference is for rarities off the beaten track. The Berlin Morgenpost called her “an unusually high-spirited organ artist.” She has made CDs, mainly on historical organs, in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, and Latvia. Since 1980 she has played in The Duo with the well-known trumpeter Edward H. Tarr.
Among her prizes and awards are the silver medal from the city of Rheinfelden for cultural achievements (2003) and further ones from Bavaria and Czechia. Because of her valuable contributions to Spanish music she was invited to give a concert � a first for a German organist � on the national holiday in 2009 in the Barcelona cathedral; simultaneously her first Spanish book appeared in print. One of her newest books is concerned with the meaning of life (Das Leben macht Sinn, Kreuz/Herder).
Irmtraud Tarr is also a psychotherapist and music therapist (Ph. D., University of Hamburg 1987, followed by a Habilitation) working in her own practice. In the fall of 2014 she became University Professor for performance science at the Universit�t Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria) and shut down her practice.
She is the author of many articles and to date 33 books from her various fields of interest. Particularly worthy of note are a book on stage fright (Kreuz-Herder), as well as another which has been translated into English: Performance Power (Summit Books, Tempe AZ, ISBN 1-887210-00-8); Die magische Kraft der Beachtung (Herder), in which light is shed on a fundamental human need hitherto neglected in publications; So zähmen Sie einen Stachelschwein – Vom Umgang mit schwierigen Menschen [How to Tame a Porcupine – on dealing with difficult people] (Herder) und Das Donald Duck-Prinzip – Scheitern als Chance für ein neues Leben [The Donald Duck Syndrome – failure as a chance for a new life] (Gütersloher Verlagshaus). Irmtraud Tarr can be often seen and heard in all the media.
In her spare time, multitalent Tarr is an enthusiastic cheese-maker, and in recent years she has finally realized a lifelong dream: to play the double bass. On October 17, 2000 in the cathedral of St. Paul, Minnesota she gave the world premiere of a spectacular piece written for her, Variations on a Theme that Somebody Threw Away, and No Wonder …) for double bass and organ (one person) by Peter Schickele AKA P. D. Q. Bach.
October 2014: Appointment to the professorship for Performance Science at Mozarteum University Salzburg.

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Rolf Schindler

Hallo Wolfgang,

a couple of months ago you have asked me to report about my hobbies.
That is a little risky because I am helping many prejudices by that…..

Besides my professions as pharmacist, art dealer and setting up game-automates
I am active in the politics for my profession as pharmacist (as delegate of the
Bavarian pharmacist chamber and regional president of the nationwide association of “active pharmacists”).

In some associations like “wine brethren” and “aviation club” I am in the presidency.

In principle that would do, but the day has 24 hours! So I go fishing and hunting, go by boat and
go flying my balloon (see picture).

Also I fly airplanes and shoot “Vorderlader”, drive bycicle and play golf.

Under the aspect of time that goes very wel because my wife Hanne participates in all of these hobbies apart from flying.

But my favourite hobby is music! I have bought several instruments and try to play “jagdhorn“, trombone,
trumpet, clarinet, saxophone, “Hackbrett“, “Zither“, double bass, hornpipes, drumset, violin, a self-constructed harmonika,
electric organ and last not least piano.

Regular highlights of my little life are the games of chess with my 12-year-old son Michael
having a (big) glass of wine and playing four hands with my little boy.

Sorry that this letter took so long although I have sufficiently time,
but in the beginning I did not find the picture with my balloon…..

Kind regards and see you soon,

Rolf

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