Armin Fuchs (*1960 in Nuremberg)

Pianist, composer, Aikido master (3.Dan), teacher, photographer.

• International concert activity as specialist for new music, song accompaniment and chamber music (among others Rome, Geneva, St. Petersburg, Warsaw, Salzburg, Vienna, Birmingham, Munich, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, Kassel, Yangon, Bangkok) with more than 80 world premieres.
• Long-term collaboration with worldwide renowned musicians, such as: Sigune von Osten, Stefan Hussong, Markus Bellheim, Keiko Harada.
• CD and radio releases.
• His interpretation of 4'33" by John Cage has over 1,500,000 views on'youtube'.
• In the multiple international award-winning film epic 'Die Zweite Heimat' by Edgar Reitz, Fuchs played the role of the pianist and composer 'Volker'.
• Six times performance of Erik Satie's 'Vexations' in each 28 hours duration non-stop.
• Armin Fuchs has been teaching at the Würzburg since 1986: Piano, New Piano Music & New Chamber Music (formerly also song composition and Aikido).
• Teaching Aikido from 2005 to 2017 at the Sports University of Würzburg.
• In addition, he has been leading the'Aikido Center Würzburg' since 2010.
• He gave master classes for piano and singing in Buenos Aires (at the Teatro Colon), in the Czech Republic, in Bangkok (Mahidol University) and in Germany (Franz-Liszt-Hochschule Weimar, Villa Musica Mainz, Hochschule für Musik Würzburg).
• Over 20 years employee of the VOICE Institute Würzburg for functional vocal pedagogy.
• Further training in the bodywork 'cos-art' (Claudio Arrau), Shiatsu (after Masunaga).
• For some years now, Fuchs has been devoting himself increasingly to jazz (again) (as a key bass player).
• As a photographer he looks back on various exhibitions (e.g. in Cannes, Nice, Würzburg).

The focus of his teaching is, among other things, the physical aspect of making music, listening, as well as composition and its structural and emotional implementation. Freedom, health, eutony and natural movement should be the basis of all music making.