Niko Schäuble

Niko Schäuble (born 29 January 1962 in Stuttgart, Germany) is a German-Australian jazz drummer, composer, and sound engineer.

Schäuble studied in Berlin with Manfred Burzlaff und Konstantinos Avgerinos among others.

With Gebhard Ullmann, Andreas Willers, and Hans-Dieter Lorenz (later Martin Lillich), he founded the quartet Out to Lunch in the mid-1980s.

In addition to regularly performing with Paul Grabowsky, he has recorded with and composed for the Australian Art Orchestra and also with the Radiosinfonieorchester Frankfurt (now hr-Sinfonieorchester), the Berlin Jazz Composers Orchestra JJBC, and the Berliner Saxophon Quartet, as well as soundtracks for series and films such as Stingers, Zoo's Company, Bunch of Fives, Neighbours and Bed of Roses.

[1] He has also taught at the Victorian College of the Arts, Monash University, and the Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE.