SR/Open_Music
SR/Open_Music
Open_Music e.V. Stuttgart is a public-service cultural non-profit organization in Stuttgart, Germany. Scott Roller is Cellist, Composer, Improviser, Educator - and founding director of Open_Music since 2005.Scott Roller was born in Amarillo, Texas USA in August 1959. Raised there and in Urbana, Illinois, with some summers in Michigan at the National Music Camp Interlochen. Parents both musicians/educators, along with two Roller uncles, some rather prominent. University studies in cello, composition & much more: UT Austin (76-79), Paris (79-80), North Texas State Univ. Denton (80-81). Chamber Music America Residency in Dallas with the *BL Lacerta* improvisation quartet (81-83), who were important in his improvisational development (his “Master’s degree in Free Improvisation).German resident since June 1983, first in Stuttgart (83-84), then in Essen (1984-2009), though the original Stuttgart connections and location continued to play an important role throughout much of that time, es