Jazz Violin Lessons
Start learning Jazz Violin today or increase your studies in swinging, improvised music! Mic Oechsner teaches in German and English – mostly online.
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Upcoming Events / Seminars
Note: All lessons are hybrid, i.e. face-to-face and online!
THE ART OF TIMING – Mic Oechsner presents exclusive free masterclass
Start Your Free Play
Blues In Jazz & Popular Music
Modern Music From Eastern Europe
GRAPPELLISSIMO! – live
Alternative Strings Summer Session
Isabella ScherabonWinter Session 2026: Jazz Improvisation On String Instruments
GRAPPELLISSIMO! – live
Jazz Violin Newsletter
In case you like to be informed about Mic’s concerts and current productions please click here –> to order the MUKHARA WORLD SOUND Newsletter, which is published in irregular intervals during the year.
News
CHOROS – NEW ALBUM RELEASE IN SPRING!
In April 2025 Mic Oechsner will release his new concept solo album CHOROS (Greek for „space“).
This 13 song compilation will deal with the phenomenon of space in any kind of contemporary meaning:
“Space” is an enormously important term in our time: overpopulation, over-tourism, climate crisis, (and thus) scarcity of living space, migration, considerations of escaping into outer space, to another planet…
Read more in short…
Latest Studio Recordings
Recorded February 2024 on Crete, GR
I did this following recording on request from a friend in 2021. It is for sure originally a tune for wind instruments, so I loved the challenge to play it on violins! Enjoy!
Here is a more modern sounding tune played on my electric 5-string violin: Invitation. I used to play this back in the 1980ies with my first quartet…
Here are 4 Tunes we recorded earlier in 2023:
Mic Oechsner, violin
Gidon Oechsner, solo & rhythm guitar
Latest CDs
„Giardino Pubblico“ – Solo-Double-CD, 2016
(order by click on cover)
New CD in 2018:
Mic Oechsner’s GRAPPELLISSIMO! plays „Gipsy Christmas“
(order by click on cover)
History
Mic’s first band in 1978: The „SALON TRIO“ (Hubertus Ametsbichler, gt – Mic Oechsner, viol – Sepp Ametsbichler, bass)
