Niko Schauble is an award-winning drummer, composer and audio engineer, with a practice spanning the full range of contemporary notated and improvised music. As a performer, Schauble has collaborated with many of the world’s leading jazz artists, including Arthur Blythe, Lee Konitz, Karaikudi R. Mani, Wynton Marsalis, Enrico Rava among many others. Schauble’s compositions span film and television scores, ballet, interdisciplinary works, chamber and symphonic music, with major commissions from the Australian Art Orchestra, West Australian Ballet, Radiosinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Queensland Festival and the Berlin Jazz Composers Orchestra. He is currently working on Clear Waters,a new work for Jazz Trio and large Symphony Orchestra, commissioned by the University of Ulm, Germany. In 2012 Schauble opened Pughouse Studios, a professional recording studio in Melbourne, Australia, producing more than 140 albums to date. He has held teaching positions in jazz and film music at the University of Melbourne and Monash University.
Awards
2020 Apra Amcos Nomination (Luminary Award)
2019 Finalist Apra Amcos Art Music Awards
2005 Finalist at Annecy Film Festival
2004 Nomination for 'Leo' award (music for short film) @ Braunschweig Filmfestival
1998 Finalist at the 'Wildscreen' Festival, Bristol
1997 Honorable Mention Julius Hemphil Awards, New York
1996 1st and 2nd Prize ‘Tage der leichten Musik’ des SFB, Berlin
1995 2nd prize Franz-Josef Reinl Stiftung für ‘Ohne Ende’
1994 'Unsigned Bands Competition', Rhythms Magazine, Australian
1992 Australian Jazz Award/Best Drummer
"[Niko Schauble] possesses a talent for composition and arranging that threatens to put him up there with the world's best." Drum Media 1996
"Schauble's compositions, like his drumming, are idiosyncratic and bristling with surprises.”
Sydney Morning Herald 1994
"Schauble's hand as a composer is evident in the quirky themes and propulsive rhythms."
The Age
“The music by Niko Schauble works wonderfully well.”
The Age Green Guide 1999
“…his rhythmic intricacy [...] is possibly unpreceeded in this country’
Sydney Morning Herald 1990
Primary Instrument
Drums
Location
Melbourne
Willing to teach
Beginner to advanced