Are you:

• learning/mastering an instrument?
• a composer?
• a digital audio producer?
• teaching music?
• enthusiastic,  motivated, curious, fascinated… or sometimes downright frustrated with the sheer amount of possibilities that music gives you?
• all of the above?

Guess what… so am I.

Here, on AdvancingMusician.com I share resources, tips, tricks, observations, musings, the occasional rant about anything related to music, creativity, practicing, teaching, arranging, producing, art, life, the universe and everything else that’s left.

Now, let me briefly introduce myself…

My Biography

My name is Marko Zirkovich.

I’ve been involved with music from early childhood on. Recorder lessons at age 5, followed by 4 years of piano study at the Joseph Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt/Austria.

As a teen I got fascinated by synthesizers. All those blips, noises, textures and overall possibilities for fresh, new sounds. From the almost vintage Casio VL-Tone (my first “synthesizer” I got in 1983) to the modern virtual soft synths – the fascination actually keeps getting stronger with the added features of modern instruments.

But keyboard instruments are not my only passion…

The Guitar Years

When I was 17 out of the blue I was infected with the guitar bug. After 2 years of messing around on my own I decided to get serious with guitar playing. I completed a 2 year guitar program at the (now defunct) American Institute of Music (AIM) in Vienna/Austria, before relocating to Los Angeles. There I attended Musician’s Institute (MI/GIT) and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Commercial Music (Arranging Major) in 2001.

Back in Austria, I’ve been busy teaching, as well as producing music for various publishing companies and European TV stations.

Hopefully, my posts, articles and tutorials will be helpful to you. Please let me know by commenting on my posts. For any questions or other inquiries use the contact form or send me a tweet via Twitter @markozirkovich.

My Contact Information

Marko Zirkovich
Mühlgasse 2
7032 Sigleß
Austria/Europe