Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover

Born in London and based in Berlin, Marc Muellbauer is a bass player, composer and band-leader.

2022 saw the release of The Next Door by the Julia Hülsmann Quartet, his eighth recording for the Munich label ECM. The albums precursor Not Far From Here earned the band the prestigious Deutscher Jazzpreis for instrumental album of the year 2021.

Muellbauer is an active composer, contributing not only to the Quartet, but also the Julia Hülsmann Trio, his nine-piece band Marc Muellbauer’s Kaleidoscope and the Wood and Steel Trio. Muellbauer’s background reaches from contemporary jazz with the Lisbeth Quartet, the Eva Klesse Quartet through electronic music with Moritz v. Oswald to studio work for film music, with singer-songwriters and contemporary classical music. In the past years he has been increasingly active in recording and mixing his own music and other jazz-related projects.