Felix Martin

There are numerous artists who have performed under the name Felix Martin. (1) Felix Martin has become a pioneer of a style of playing for his custom-made instrument called the 14-string guitar. He is known for his abilities to compose innovative, highly complex music and for his personal techniques at playing two-handed tapping on the guitar. Originally from Venezuela, Felix moved to the United States after graduating from high school to attend the prestigious Berklee College as a scholarship winning performer. Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

There are numerous artists who have performed under the name Felix Martin. (1) Felix Martin has become a pioneer of a style of playing for his custom-made instrument called the 14-string guitar. He is known for his abilities to compose innovative, highly complex music and for his personal techniques at playing two-handed tapping on the guitar. Originally from Venezuela, Felix moved to the United States after graduating from high school to attend the prestigious Berklee College as a scholarship winning performer. During that time, Felix studied music theory, sound engineering, self-produced his first album before turning 20, composed music for video games, transcribed every kind of music he could get his hands on (including speaking human voices), and played a wide range of music including Prog-Rock, Jazz, Latin, Electronica, Pop, World, and much more. Felix in known for developing a flexible way to play the 14-string guitar, which is the same as playing two 7-string guitars at the same time but having both guitars on one wide neck in standard tuning. He has his own system of chords, including deep sounding 8-finger chords, accompaniment methods, slap-tapping techniques, chord-melody, intervallic soloing, and lead soloing played with both fret boards. Along with a life of performing, Felix has also gained experience as a teacher and clinician. He teaches several of his own methods for guitar and music theory such as slap method, two-handed tapping techniques, odd meters, polyrhythms, metric modulation, jazz rock improvisation, and more. He has also developed his own written method for each of these subjects. Felix currently tours with his trio and also other artists of various genres. He is working as a session musician as well as a recording, mixing, and mastering engineer. (2)Felix Martin received his training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. Most recently, he played the Archdeacon Claude Frollo in Disney's THE LADY OF NOTRE DAME in Berlin, Munich and Stuttgart. Awarded the Berlin theater prize "Daphne" and the musical prize "Image", he celebrated in 2018 at Berlin's Wintergarten his 30th stage anniversary. Peter Weck brought him to Vienna for LES MISÉRABLES as Marius as well as for the world premiere of FREUDIANA. He played Death in ELISABETH in Berlin, Vienna and Zurich, Count von Krolock in DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES in Hamburg and Perón in EVITA in Vienna. In NEXT TO NORMAL he was seen as Dan in Vienna and at the Staatsoperette Dresden. He played Danny in GREASE, Frank N. Furter in THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW, Zaza in EIN KÄFIG VOLLER NARREN and the title role in ELVIS. On television, he could be seen in "Ich heirate eine Familie" (I'm marrying a family), among others. For 3sat he moderated the gala "Hommage to Harald Juhnke". He makes guest appearances with various solo programs and has released four solo CDs. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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