Thomas Stahr is a German bassist and composer, "who demonstrates expertise in both classical and jazz".
He studied classical double bass at the Musikhochschule Köln, among others with Wolfgang Güttler.
Since 1998, he has worked in the New Leipzig Jazztrio with Wolfram Dix [de] and singer Sabine Helmbold, with whom he released a CD in 2000 and also performed in Tunisia in 2002.
[1] He performed with Nigel Kennedy, Ron Williams, Thomas Freitag and Jiggs Whigham, among others.. Stahr plays in the König-Trio with Stephan König on piano and Wieland Götze on drums;[2] in this trio he presented the album Bach in Jazz (Rondeau, 2012) with Martin Petzold.
Furthermore, he is a lecturer for electric bass and jazz double bass at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.