Short vita

Albrecht Maurer is a crossover artist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer and at home in various genres. He first studied viola, then violin at the Cologne University of Music and Dance. He also played piano, synthesizer and later historical string instruments such as the Gothic fiddle, rebec, lyrica and viola da braccio. Occasionally he uses his voice, as well as live electronics and frame drums.

During his studies he began to write his own pieces, attended composition courses and worked in the field of jazz and new music. He mainly composes chamber music, mostly suites, which contain elements of different genres and use free improvisation both as a connecting and independent element. 

Albrecht Maurer became a member of the ensemble Dialogos, which is directed by Katarina Livljanic, in 2005. He now plays in 6 different programs on various historical string instruments. He often creates his own part and is involved in the creative process.

Since 2016, he has been curating the Chamber Remix Cologne concert series at the Kunsthafen im Rhenania in Cologne. Here he combines chamber music and live remix and also uses this series to realize own projects.

He has been a member of the Beyond The Roots collective since 2019. Here he has also curated concerts and realized his own projects focusing on the development of transcultural new music.

In 2025, Albrecht Maurer will perform at many festivals with the Ensemble Dialogos, record a new Dialogos CD for OutHere Music, play in the Beyond The Roots Large Ensemble, continue his concert series Chamber Remix Cologne and realize various new projects.

Short vita (as violinist)

Albrecht Maurer studied violin at the Musikhochschule in Cologne and was initially self-taught, later in lessons, with the piano, as well as with synthesizers and samplers of the 80s. In the 90s he concentrated entirely on the violin. He gained important experience through collaborations with Theo Jörgensmann and Kent Carter. 

As an instrumentalist he belongs to the representatives of Modern Creative Jazz. Modern Creative is considered a contemporary form of Creative Music, which is seen as "a further development of Free Jazz". It makes a claim to art and represents an anti-commercial attitude.

Sounds and loops, sound color spectra, grooves and percussion imitations, combined with the energy of jazz and carried by classical playing figures and techniques from the Renaissance, Baroque and modern periods determine his playing. 

“I grew up with musical wanderlust, and the most diverse musical languages temporarily became a new home. Today, my search for identity resembles the task of shaping my various personal roots into my own changeable language. This is characterized by great flexibility, openness and a willingness to communicate.” 

Albrecht Maurer has participated in over 60 radio recordings and owes a great deal to the WDR in particular, which has supported the most important stages of his career.

Albrecht Mauer has toured Europe, North America, North Africa and China as a soloist and in various groups. He has worked with jazz musicians such as Kent Carter, Theo Jörgensmann, Lucian Ban, Mat Maneri, Peter Jacquemyn, Wolter Wierbos, Benôit Delbecq, Klaus Kugel, Bobo Stenson, Carla Bley, Charlie Mariano, Karl Berger, Steve Argüelles and Barre Phillips to name but a few. He has been a member of the Parisian ensemble Dialogos since 2005. He moves between genres together with Norbert Rodenkirchen, Kerstin de Witt, Bassem Hawar, Beyond The Roots, Marco Ambrosini and many others.

Short vita (as composer)

Short vita (early music)

Albrecht Maurer studied violin at the Musikhochschule in Cologne and was initially self-taught, later in lessons, with the piano. He has been composing out of inner drive since the age of 17. As a composer he is largely self-taught, studying with Johannes Fritsch and Klarenz Barlow. Albrecht Maurer gained experience in New Music and experimental music theater through intensive collaboration with several composers from the school of Mauricio Kagel, including Maria de Alvear, Carola Bauckholt and Manos Tsangaris. In various ensembles he worked on projects with keyboard instruments, sound synthesis programming, violin and voice. He gained important experience with Theo Jörgensmann, Kent Carter and Karl Berger, and as a student through collaborations with Raimund Kroboth and Thomas Witzmann. Albrecht Maurer wrote various compositions for chamber music jazz ensembles as well as for classical ensembles with improvisation experience (or willingness). He has also composed for instrumentations with recorder, played by Meike Herzig, Dorothee Oberlinger, Flautando Köln, Syn.de, among others, as well as by various federal prize winners of Jugend Musiziert. More recently, he has also been incorporating loopers into his compositions and experimenting with live electronics as well.

Albrecht Maurer studied violin at the Musikhochschule Köln and works today as a composer, violinist and since 2003 as an interpreter of medieval music with Gothic fiddle, rebec and lyrica. Since 2003 he is a permanent member of the Parisian ensemble Dialogos of Katarina Livljanic. So he plays in 2 programs of Dialogos, in Judith and in Barlaam & Josaphat, both in trio line-up with Katarina Livljanic and Norbert Rodenkirchen. He has also participated in projects of Norbert Rodenkirchen, e.g. "Aura Christina" with Maria Jonas or "Salon Medival" with Benjamin Bagby, Eric Mentzel and Wolgang Klein Richter. 

He has also created two programs with Norbert Rodenkirchen as a duo, Hidden Fresco and Loplop's Call, which deal with new music on medieval instruments. With Dialogos, Albrecht Maurer has performed in France, Spain, Croatia, England, Italy, Slovenia, Germany, Belgium, Canada and the USA. Highlights were the festivals and concert series in: London Queen Elizabeth Hall (Purcell Room), Cite de la Music Paris, San Sebastian Festival, Split Festival, Zadar Festival, Boston Festival, Barcelona, Rome, Vancouver Early Music, UBC Hall, Lincoln Center New York, Printemps des Art Festival Monaco. Dubrovnik Festival, Zagreb National Theater, to name but a few.