User:MaxClouth

Max Clouth (born June 15, 1985) is a german jazz and fusion guitarist.

Born in Frankfurt, Germany he had the chance to travel to south Europe, US, Africa and the Middle East and expierence the cultural diversity of the world in his early childhood. After graduation at Freie Waldorfschule Frankfurt Max enrolled at Mainz University to study jazz guitar with Marc-Oliver Klenk and Norbert Scholly. Parallel to his studies he performed with singers, ensembles and dancers, often performing a hard rock show after a jazz gig. In 2008 Max changed to Dresden University where he continued his studies with Professor Ralf Beutler and Stephan Bormann and received a diploma degree in jazz guitar in 2009.

Inspired by Shakti, the influential indo jazz ensemble of John McLaughlin and Zakir Hussain, Max started studying the Indian system of raga and tala with violinist Indradeep Ghosh. In autumn 2009 he decided to enroll at Sangit Mahabharati Music School in Mumbai (Bombay) to study Indian Classical Music with Pandit Nayan Ghosh.

Besides his studies Max is regularly performing in India and Germany in a solo format and with musicians like Indradeep Ghosh (violin), Nirmalya Roy, Omprakash Pandey, Niraj Kumar, Pt Shankha Chatterjee (tabla), Torsten de Winkel (guitar), Rafael Sotomayor (hang), Marc-Inti Männel (bass) and Geronimo Dehler (perc)