EarMaster ApS is a Danish music software company founded in 1994. Being musicians ourselves, our mission is to develop high quality software, and to provide musicians of all horizons with the most interactive and efficient ear training tool.

What drives our company is passion for music in all its shapes and colors, and all of our employees are musicians and avid users of EarMaster on a personal basis.

In 2011, our company was awarded a Gazelle Prize by Danish financial magazine Børsen for being one of Denmark's fastest-growing companies.

The people

	Hans Lavdal Jakobsen Managing director and developer, M.Sc. Robotics Hans is the original founder and programmer of EarMaster. He developed the idea of EarMaster and created the great ear training program we know today. He plays the piano, mainly jazz and gospel music, and plays at various Gospel events in the area where he lives. Together with his wife he runs a Gospel choir called "Gospel kids" for 6-10 year old children.
	Quentin Nicollet Sales & Marketing manager, M.A. English and European Studies Quentin from France is taking care of EarMaster's marketing, distribution and customer/sales support. When he's not at the office, he is recording music and playing concerts with his Metal bands in which he plays guitar. Even though his favourite musical genre is Metal - mostly black, as in coffee - he also likes Rock, Gipsy Jazz, Blues, Classical music, and Johnny Cash.
	Martijn Bosma Software developer, M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence Martijn comes from the Netherlands, but has lived many places including Germany and Sweden. Now in Denmark, he has joined our team to work on the development of EarMaster 6 and future releases. In his spare time, Martijn is working on making a smashing dance floor filler, listens to reggae and commercial dance music, and watches British comedy shows. He used to play bass in a Ska band during most of the 90's, and plays a bit of piano. He made a big impression at the office by biking to and from work along the ocean side in a raging snowstorm!
	Piotr Karasinski Software developer, M.Sc. Computer Science Piotr, from Poland, always wanted to be an astronaut, but he became a programmer instead. He tries to play guitar and bass, sometimes making home recordings of his attempts. Piotr listens mostly to rock/metal music, ranging from post-rock through progressive metal to mathcore, and enjoys a little bit of jazz flavor too. He tends to address people as "dudes".
	Duncan Parsons Software developer, B.Sc. Psychology Duncan is from Great Britain and joined our team in 2011. He is mainly a drummer, but he also plays guitar, piano, mandolin. He has been teaching drums for over 15 years and produced music for theater and video. In the early 2000s, he started writing audio software as a hobby (VST plugins). He has since had his work published in a number of well-known music magazines. His musical tastes lean mostly towards Progressive Rock (Yes, Genesis, Gentle Giant, Stackridge, King Crimson, Family, etc), but any musical creation can raise his interest if it moves him. Duncan not only brought with him his great spirit and coding expertise, but he also started a tea-drinking trend at the office.
	Tonny Vorberg Marketing and support - Spanish-speaking countries Tonny is taking care of our marketing and support for the Spanish-speaking countries. Having family ties in Peru, he feels at home in Spanish-speaking countries. Besides working at EarMaster, Tonny is also a piano teacher.
	Jeppe Christensen Ear training and music theory expertise Jeppe graduated from the Nordjysk conservatory of music with drums and band direction as majors. He is working on perfecting the pedagogical aspects of EarMaster, and helps the developers create new activities for EarMaster. He teaches ear training at an upper level school, and collaborates with the music conservatories of Aarhus and Aalborg in Denmark. Besides being a literal ear master, Jeppe also plays Drums, the piano, and a bit of guitar and bass. He listens to all types of music, but likes it best when improvisation is invited to the party. His favourite artists are Tom Waits, Pat Metheny, The Beatles, Stevie Wonder and many more.
	Birgitte Jakobsen Human resources Birgitte is responsible for recruitment and staff care. She sings Gospel music and leads a Gospel choir called "Gospel kids" together with her husband. It's for 6-10 year old children, and their own three children are in the choir too.
	Markus Petersen Webmaster The webmaster and server administrator of EarMaster is Markus. He makes sure that everything is in order with our webshop and the webserver, and develops new features and tweaks for the site whenever it's needed. He enjoys listening to (and frequently singing to) various music. Visit his last.fm profile for an insight.

The office

Our office is in northern Århus in Denmark. Located in northern Europe, Denmark is a small country of 6 million people. The office building is right next to the beautiful Egå yachting marina, where fresh air and a nice view of the sea can make you regain your strength during workbreaks. Our work environment is quite relaxed. That means: no suits and ties, and a bit of fun and music is always welcome.

The EarMaster history

The EarMaster history goes back to 1992, where founder Hans Jakobsen was preparing for conservatory training. He seriously needed to develop his musical ear fast, but could not find any effective ear training tools. These circumstances paved the way for the foundation of EarMaster.

Hans came up with the idea of using computers for ear training, and by 1994 he had developed the first software program for ear training - a simple program primarily intended for music students. In 1996 the first edition of EarMaster saw the light of day. EarMaster not only addressed music students, who shared similar experiences, but now all musicians could benefit from our program - and from their own musical ear!

Starting up more than a decade ago with a DOS-based program and now having, in our opinion, the best ear training software in the world - translated into 23 languages and distributed globally - tells us that a lot of ears need us!