Niko Schäuble
Niko Schäuble (born 29 January 1962 in Stuttgart, Germany) is a German-Australian jazz drummer, composer and sound engineer. Biography and work. Schäuble studied in Berlin, with Manfred Burzlaff und Konstantinos Avgerinos among others. With Gebhard Ullmann, Andreas Willers and Hans-Dieter Lorenz (later Martin Lillich) he founded the quartet Out to Lunch in the mid-1980s. He was also a member of the band "Elefanten" and led his own band "Tibetan Dixie". In 1989 he moved to Australia, and has lived since that time in Melbourne. In addition to regularly performing with Paul Grabowsky, He has recorded with  and composed for the Australian Art Orchestra, and also with the Radiosinfonieorchester Frankfurt (now hr-Sinfonieorchester), the Berlin Jazz Composers Orchestra JJBC and the Berliner Saxophon Quartet, as well as soundtracks for series and films such as Stingers, Zoo's Company, Bunch of Fives, Neighbours and Bed of Roses. He has also taught at the Victorian College of the Arts, Monash University and the Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE. Since 2012 he has managed "Pughouse Studios", where he works as a producer and sound engineer.