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Born in 1990 and raised in Unken (province of Salzburg), Haitzmann's childhood and youth were strongly influenced by folk music and customs. Village life, which included everything you could imagine (traditional costume club, Schuhplatteln, maypole festivals, etc.), was followed by a rural exodus. A resident of Vienna since 2009, he studied jazz violin at the Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama and Dance in Linz with Andreas Schreiber and baroque violin with Michi Gaigg and Barbara Konrad respectively, as well as performance art with Carola Dertnig at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 2017, he switched from Carola Dertnig to Ashley Hans Scheirl, contextual painting. Haitzmann is a founding member of the contemporary folk music ensemble ALMA, the Vienna-based jazz collective Little Rosies' Kindergarten and the improvisation quartet s q u a m a t a.