Martin Rott

Born in Ohio, USA, Martin grew up in Germany with mom and dad being classical violinists, receiving drum lessons from age 6, whilst developing self-taught piano, guitar and bass skills playing in school and church bands.Leaving home at age 16 to join his first rock band he went on to earn a professional music education including studies at Berklee, Boston, USA,  the Conservartory of Enschede, NL, a diploma as a Jazz-Musician from the School of Music and Perf. Arts Mannheim and a BA in music production from the Popakademie Mannheim, where he wrote and produced his first LP for his indie-pop duo „anstatt Blumen“.

After teaching drums, playing in and producing several bands from all genres he worked as an in-house producer of Austrias largest commercial studio in Vienna until game score giant dynamedion welcomed him to their team of external composers in 2014. Since then he's scored for more than 150 tv-show-episodes and movies (as „tatort“, „block b“, „der koenig von palma“) for all major german tv-networks and award winning feature films.In his Berlin based studio, having a felted grand piano placed seamlessly next to the production desk, Martin works on finding a unique tone for every theme he writes. Evolving from this work now he's releasing new music capturing his very own artistic vision of a merge between neo classical filmscore and playfully detailed beats and soundscapes, a filmscore to a journey wich hasen't been captured on film yet...martin rott - short bioMartin played his first Gig as a Drummer at age 11 with his parents both being classical violinists.Since then he has worked as a live and studio musician, arranger and composer in various genres and corners of the music business from Indie artists to mayor pop bands and tv-shows.Now, on his Solo-Debut LP the US-Born, Berlin resident composer and multi-instrumentalist merges the Ideas from neo classical filmscore with playfully detailed beats and soundscapes, a filmscore to a journey wich hasen't been captured on film yet...