George Edlinger

Georg Edlinger initially studied jazz drums and completed his diploma studies at the Franz Schubert Conservatory in Vienna in 1992. He continued his studies from 1993 to 1996 at the Timeline International Music School in the field of percussion, where he studied African and Afro-Caribbean music.

This was followed by study visits, among others, to Havana in Cuba and studies for IGP drums and percussion at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz and at the Vienna Conservatory in Vienna. In 1999 he played concert tours throughout Europe with the group Tanga. In 2002 he published percussion textbooks for djembé, congas, bongos, drums, darabuka and rhythmic training.

In 2003 he founded his own CD label called cwm-music and released CDs with his formation shineform with Volker Kagerer and Mario Rechtern. From 2005 to 2010 the CDs shineform Waterpercussion were released on the Extraplatte label, followed by his solo debut Percussion Beyond The Timelines and a DVD with the title shineform The Making of Kling Klong.

In 2006 he received a professorship for jazz drums and percussion at the Franz Schubert Conservatory in Vienna, where he founded the Academy for Ethno-Percussion at Neuwaldegg Castle in 2010 and, together with Herwig Stieger and Stefan Maass, wrote the curriculum for ethno-percussion in Austria and South Tyrol for the first time .

Since 2006 he has been working as a freelance workshop lecturer and in the music projects with African Club 3 as well as Drumball Connection, Universal Rhythm Blasters at Work and since 2012 as a lecturer at the Gustav Mahler Conservatory in Vienna.

He also worked in the field of film and theater music such as in the projects Missing links, Engerling, Nosferatu and in the kung fu show Shaolin & Wudang as well as in other performances with his own designed metal percussion instruments made from scrap at Linz 09 and at Ars Electronica 2013 .