What you’ll find on AdvancingMusician.com is my take on music, cre­ativ­ity, prac­tic­ing, com­pos­ing, arrang­ing, pro­duc­ing, teach­ing, pro­mo­tion, art, life, the uni­verse and every­thing else that’s left.

Who am I?

Hi, my name is Marko Zirkovich and I am a free-lance musi­cian, pro­ducer and edu­ca­tor. I’ve been involved with music from early child­hood on. Flute lessons when I was 5 years old, 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 to the mod­ern vir­tual soft synths — the fas­ci­na­tion actu­ally keeps get­ting stronger with the added fea­tures of mod­ern instru­ments. And by the way, that Casio VL-Tone I got way back in 1983 is still functional.

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 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.

Free-lancing

Back in Austria, I’ve been busy teach­ing, as well as pro­duc­ing music for var­i­ous pub­lish­ing com­pa­nies and European TV sta­tions. Feel free to con­tact me should you need any sound edit­ing or cus­tom music for your own projects.

I also work on an online multi-media gui­tar course at lessonz.com. Currently the course is only avail­able in German, but the English ver­sion will launch soon.

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Marko Zirkovich
Mühlgasse 2
7032 Sigleß
Austria/Europe