Jochen Scheytt

Jochen Scheytt grew up in Pinache, Wiernsheim and Mühlacker. After the Abitur in Pforzheim he studied Schulmusik and Jazz und Popularmusik at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart and English at the University of Stuttgart.
From 1993 he was engaged as a pianist at the Friedrichsbau-Varieté Stuttgart and played the keyboards in the orchestra of the musical productions "Miss Saigon" and "Tanz der Vampire" at the SI-Centrum in Stuttgart.
Since 1999 he has been a music and English teacher and teaches at the Schlossgymnasium in Kirchheim unter Teck.
In 2004 he started to teach Schulpraktisches Klavierspiel at the Trossingen University of Music and changed to the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart in 2006.
For many years Jochen Scheytt has maintained an extensive activity as a pianist and keyboardist, as a soloist and accompanist, and in various bands and orchestras.
Since 1999 he has also had his own website on the internet www.jochenscheytt.de, which features articles on Claude Debussy, Al Jarreau, the Minstrel Show, a page with background information on over 50 pop and rock songs and his own compositions for school bands (grade 5 to 7).
In recent years he has increasingly appeared as an author of school books.