Engel Mayr is best known for being the guitarist and songwriter for RUSSKAJA, DORRETTA CARTER, HALLUCINATION COMPANY, BASTARD PEELS, DUO MAYR/TIEFENBACHER, GU GABRIEL as well as his own blues/rock trio (READ THE REVIEW OF HIS LATEST RECORD BELOW!). He is also well known for playing some of the grooviest Funk and Soul music with HUBERT TUBBS and KRIS JEFFERSON. Besides touring all over Europe with various bands and artists he also performed lots of musicals like “West Side Story”, “Jesus Christ Superstar”, “Sweet Charity”, “Annie Get Your Gun”, “Evita”, “Little Shop of Horror”, “Camp Rock” and many others. Born in 1984 Engel Mayr picked up the guitar at the age of 8 and has never put it down since then. He studied Jazz Guitar with Edi Köhldorfer, Marcus Ratka and Peter Legat. Besides being one of the best booked guitar players in and out the country he is also producing and mixing records with artists of many different styles!
Live and Recording Credits:
RUSSKAJA, DORRETTA CARTER, HALLUCINATION COMPANY, DELADAP, DUO MAYR/TIEFENBACHER, PERCIVAL DUKE, Elephant Music Germany, Matthias Reim, Natalia Kelly, Wiener Philharmoniker, Russian Gentlemen Club, Die Drescher, Texta (gstanzl stream 2010), Ola Egbowon & Part Of Soul, Eddie Cole, Lynne Kieran, Kim Cooper, Previn Moore, BASTARD PEELS, Carmen Rizzo (Alanis Morisette, Seal, Coldplay), BrazenLinx, Daniel Küblböck Jazzband (Deutschland sucht den Superstar), Bad Powells, Musical Westside Story (Schlossfestspiele Regensburg), Camp Rock Musical (Stadthalle Wien), Buehne Baden (Stadttheater), Hansi Lang, Andy Baum, GuGabriel & the nomads of the universe, Ramona Rotstich, Besouro Preto, Engel Mayr’s Defjazz, ¼ Most Bert und Engel, Tini Kainrath, Kris Jefferson, Melinda Stoika, Hubert Tubbs (Tower of Power), Jazzwerkstatt Wien, Supermax, Big John Whitfield, Roland Jäger, Johanna Wokalek (Burgtheater Wien), Serge Gainsbourg Projekt (Schauspielhaus Wien, Akademietheater, Kasino Burgtheater, Prinz Regenten Theater München,…), Paolo Conte Abend (Kasino Burgtheater), Sophia i, Agnes Milewski and others …
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