Tassos Tataroglou

Biographie

Tassos Tataroglou (alias Kame or TurTle) is a musician born in Thessaloniki (GR) in 1985. He lives in Basel (CH) since 2013.

Studies in classical trumpet performance, musicology, composition & pedagogics in Greece. Further studies in free improvisation with Fred Frith and Alfred Zimmerlin in the Music Academy of Basel. Shakuhachi studies with Seian Genshin (Kyoto), Marek Kimei Matvija (Prague) & Ueli Fuyûru Derendinger (Basel).

Passionate about the exploration of timbre, he designed in 2017 the Microtone – Duplex trumpet.

Member of Unorthodox Jukebox orchestra (Basel) & Insub Meta Orchestra (Geneva).