Ingo Deul is a drummer, composer and improviser in the Los Angeles creative music community. Ingo worked as a professional sideman in Europe for more than ten years before he moved to the United States, where he became active in the New Orleans music scene and later in the Los Angeles music scene.Ingo studied drumset with Johnny Vidacovich and composition with James Walsh, Vinny Golia and Wadada Leo Smith. In this tradition he is a composer, who performs his own music with different ensembles, blending composition and improvisation in order to create his own musical language. His music shows influences from various world music traditions including jazz and avant-garde, as well as more abstract interdisciplinary influences related to the Visual Arts. Ingo is a member of the gamelan orchestra Burat Wangi. He co-founded the New Orleans New Music Ensemble (NONME), a chamber orchestra dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music, as well as the nine piece avant-garde group The Sound for the Organization of Society. He is also a founding member of the Improvising Composers United (ICU), a non-profit organization interested in fostering a pan-disciplinary approach to improvisation and composition. Ingo holds a B.M. from Loyola University in New Orleans in Jazz Studies and Composition and an M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts in African American Improvisational Music.