Thomas Motter

Thomas Hubert Motter (*4.August 1963 Heidelberg ) is a german musician , keyboardist , songwriter , producer

Life: classically trained by Erwin Schmieder ( 3. generation Liszt student , Eugen Dalbert , Alfred Höhn ) , Prof. Gisela Sott, Wolfgang Bloßer , Günther Krieger .

1976 with 13 years he won the state competition in Baden - Württemberg of the Deutsche Tonkünstler Verband. Radio performances & recordings fallowed.

formative for his Jazz - influences was the contact to the drummer Allen Blairman in Heidelberg .

1980 was the first performance with an Orchestra in the performance or the Warsaw concerto from Adinsell with the concert band of the Chaska High School in Minnesota, USA . Thomas Motter was a foreign exchange student for one year in the USA and graduated 1980 from Chaska High School.

In 1980 Thomas became member of the band Riff Raff in Heidelberg , Germany . guit:Horst Abel, bass : Hadi Wagner , drums : Pit Kania. collective songwriting , various studio recordings & life performances were done .

Around 1985 he formed the duet `Cosa Nostra `with the singer Barbara Kosariscuc to perform songs from Brecht/Weil , Jazz Standards & Chansons.

Thomas Motter was also regular Bar Pianist in the prestigious Caffee Villa in Heidelberg from 1980 to 1990

During his time at Heidelberg University from 1987 to 1990 he was accompanying and doing correptition for the University Choir for the f minor mass of Anton Bruckner under Uwe Lohmann .

A huge influence for his music was also to play regularly with american musicians who were part of the 40.000,00 troops , which were stationed in the Heidelberg /Mannheim area after WW II and included always many musicians .

Also the music that were played in the many clubs on the american base on the weekends was very influental for Thomas Motter .

1993 Thomas Motter started his own project `Judge T & the Jury `to realize how own musical ideas with guit : Andreay Bayless , bass : Frank Backes , drums : Chick Zigmondy and voc. : Sherlyn Whittiker . Through a friend of Sherlyn Whittikers sister , who at the time was serving in the US army in Heidelberg , Thomas Motter got to know Sherlyn , who then relocated to Heidelberg for good.

1998 Thomas Motter became member of the SDR3 winner band US2U . SDR is a major radio station in the south of Germany .

In 2000 Thomas Motter became part of K.J.Dallaway & friends and performed a steady gig weekly at `Billy blues Heidelberg from 2000 to 2003 . the CD K.J.Dallaway & friends `Live at Billy Blues `followed .

2003 his own project was renamed to : t-mc

2003 the release of the CD t-mc feat. Sherlyn Whittiker `no return `

2003 was also the release of the cd : t-mc `nite angel . on the CD `nite angel `are collaborations with Lori Williams , Sydney Youngblood , Helen Taylor, Carl Murray & Sherlyn Whittiker

2008 the project was renamed to `Moon Base` 2009 an invitation followed to the 1st Jazz Festival in the city of Cairo the founder of the festival Amro Salah had discovered the project on `my space `

2012 the release of the album `Moon Base ´ - high followed on the album `high `are features of voc.: Melissa Bell, Lyric L , Helen Taylor , Karl Frierson , Helena Paul , Angie Brown, Menoosha Susungi & Sherlyn Whittiker , sax.: Bill Evans , Keith Anderson , bass : Larry Kimpel, Francis Hylton and others ..

2014 the release of Thomas Motter `lost & loved `happened , this time und his own name . On `lost & loved `are collaborations with : voc.: LeNora Jaye , Helen Taylor, Eric Conley , Melissa Bell , Helena Paul, Karl Frierson, Michelle Bradshaw , bass : Nathan East , Larry Kimpel ,

Lost & Loved reached No.3 on the UK Soul charts in June 2014

2017 the 5th album : Thomas Motter ´Somewhere Out There ` followed on ` Somewhere Out There ` are collaborations with : voc.: LeNora Jaye , Helena Paul , Angie Brown , Menoosha Susungi , Karl Frierson , bass: Victor Bailey , Nathan East , Larry Kimpel, Francis Hylton , sax.: Bill Evans, Keith Anderson a.a.

2017 an invitation followed to the Harare International Festival of Arts HIFA in Zimbabwe. Two performances with the singer LeNora Jaye followed @ the HIFA Festival in May.

2017 also performances with LeNora Jaye in Sambia took place at a concert from the European Union in the arcades in Lusaka , as well as invitation and performances in the German embassy in Lusaka and Alliance Francaise Lusaka. , Also 2 clinics were done by Thomas Motter & LeNora Jaye in Lusaka in the Lusaka International Community School LICS and at St. Paul School in Lusaka . Show less