33 Facts About Markus Reuter

Markus Reuter was born on Lippstadt, Germany, 1972 and is a German multi-instrumentalist, composer, record producer and instrument designer.

Since 2011 Markus Reuter has begun to establish himself as a contemporary classical composer, starting with the performance and recording of his large-scale orchestral piece Todmorden 513.

Markus Reuter is part of an artist-owned production consortium which encompasses Iapetus Media, Unsung Productions and Unsung Records.

In terms of composition, Markus Reuter has shown a particular interest in process music, using rules-based algorithmic and serial compositional techniques.

Markus Reuter has worked with generative music, which informs both the harmonic designs of some of his classical compositions and his work with the band Tuner and follows various improvisational approaches.

Markus Reuter has cited the challenges brought to him by long-term musical partners as being a particular inspiration.

Markus Reuter began training as a musician in 1975 at the age of three.

Markus Reuter was inspired by a variety of influences - classic 1960s and 1970s pop music, classical music, progressive rock and contemporary crossover composers such as David Bedford.

In 1991, at the age of 18, Markus Reuter began attending courses in Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft.

Markus Reuter's approach changed when he took up the Chapman Stick in early 1993, following discussions with Fripp and inspired by Reuter's own admiration for King Crimson's Stick player Tony Levin.

In 1993, Markus Reuter began a six-year degree course in psychology at Universitat Bielefeld.

In 1996 Markus Reuter performed his first complete concert of entirely self-written compositions, and embarked on a career as a professional musician.

Markus Reuter began recording and releasing this type of music in 1998 - beginning with the Taster album - and has released nine such albums to the present day.

In 2017, Markus Reuter released a very different album - Falling for Ascension, a twelve-tone pointillist suite reworked from several of his teenage compositions.

Markus Reuter has gone on to compose and record further classical pieces:.

Centrozoon was the first band which Markus Reuter joined on his professional emergence in 1996.

Since 2005, Markus Reuter has been affiliated with several projects related to King Crimson.

In 2005 Markus Reuter began actively collaborating with King Crimson's drummer Pat Mastelotto.

In 2010 Markus Reuter joined Mastelotto and Tony Levin in the Stick Men trio, with whom he has released eleven studio and live albums plus an EP.

Markus Reuter has sometimes been hailed as Fripp's potential successor, despite always downplaying and rejecting this idea when questioned about it.

Markus Reuter is a featured instrumental performer and general contributor to Fletcher's albums Faith in Worthless Things and The Cracks Within - FiWT Remixes, as well as recording the Islands single and playing on Fletcher's 2017 single The Chancer.

Since 2015, Markus Reuter has been an associate member of Dutch Rall's synthpop studio project Nocturne Blue, providing touch guitar solos and textures.

Markus Reuter resumed jazz work when he joined the spontaneous electro-acoustic improvisation band Syntony in 2009.

Markus Reuter was a member of international art pop band This Fragile Moment - fronted by Toyah Willcox and incorporating Estonian duo Fragile plus Toyah bassist Chris Wong - who recorded a single eponymous album in 2010.

In 2021, Markus Reuter created another new group, Anchor and Burden.

Since 2002, Markus Reuter has developed his work as a record producer for other artists, including Chrysta Bell, Yoshi Hampl, UMA, Tovah, The Season Standard, Skin Diary, Lake Cisco and The Redundant Rocker.

Markus Reuter served as producer for the Toyah Willcox-related project This Fragile Moment, for which he was one of the main contributing musicians.

In 2006, Markus Reuter set up three interrelated businesses with his centrozoon partner Bernhard Wostheinrich.

Markus Reuter began his work as a teacher in 1998, conducting touch guitar seminars in Spain, Belgium, and the USA.

In 2005, Markus Reuter founded the Touch Guitar Circle, offering expert teaching of touch-guitar playing methods plus a support network for players.

Markus Reuter continues to offer regular courses in both Europe and America, actively supporting students via continuous online education lessons on technique, composition and the "Modus Novus" music theory.

Between 2002 and 2006 Markus Reuter taught classes in "The Psychology of Creativity" at the University of Applied Sciences, Fulda, Germany.

Several of Markus Reuter's students, including Alexander Dowerk and Erik Emil Eskildsen play Touch Guitars and have released recordings of music made with the instrument.