Jon Diven
Double Bass, RockestraJon Diven is solo bassist of the Deutsche Philharmonie Merck in Darmstadt and comes from Texas. He has lived in Germany since 1989. He teaches double bass, cello and electric bass at the Carl-Bosch-Gymnasium in Ludwigshafen and at the music school Badische Bergstrasse in Weinheim.
He has been a lecturer at the IMC String Camp since 2001 and founded the “Rockestra” with Frauke Preisler in 2007, for which he also writes the arrangements. He is a lecturer at the Akadamie for Music Pedagogy in Wiesbaden and at the Rheinische Orchester Akadamie Mainz (ROAM).
In his spare time he plays electric bass in the hard rock band “Days of Thunder” and plays keyboard, bass and guitar in the cover band “The Footprint”. From 1994-2002 he worked for Stella-Musicals in Stuttgart and Berlin and was also tour bassist for Helmut Lotti. He received a “Grammy Nomination” in the category “Best Orchestral Performance” in 2011.
