Udo Dahmen (born 12 July 1951 in

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) is a

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, author and CEO of the

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Life

Udo Dahmen studied classical percussion in

and

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from 1971 to 1976. In

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he was trained by Dante Agostini. As a session drummer, Dahmen played together with different popular acts such as

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, Eberhard Schöner (feat. Sting,

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, Inga Rumpf, Charly Mariano and many more. Among those, at least ten records made it to the top ten in Germany. From 1983 to 2003 Udo Dahmen was professor at the

Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg The Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg is one of the larger universities of music in Germany. It was founded 1950 as ''Staatliche Hochschule für Musik'' (Public college of music) on the base of the former private acting school of Annem ...

. In 1995 he became president of the European drummers' association Percussion Creativ. Since 2003, Dahmen is vice president of the German Music Council and director of the Popular Music Department at

Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 2 ...

.Popular Music Department
Popakademie.de/english. Retrieved 2015-08-06

Publications

*Zwischen Kunst und Pädagogik. Profimusiker unterrichten Jazz und Rock, LAG Musik NRW, Remscheid 1992 *Drumbook, AMA-Verlag, Brühl 1994 *Rhythmisches Training. In: Populäre Musik und Pädagogik, Lüneburg 1994 *Musikalische Reisen für Amateure und Profis. In: Populäre Musik und Pädagogik 2, Lüneburg 1996 *Bodypercussion. In: Musik und Unterricht, Velber 1997

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dahmen, Udo Living people German session musicians German percussionists German drummers German male musicians Male drummers German music educators 1951 births