LUCA SISERA – Bass, Composition

A sought-after bass player in the Swiss jazz and improv scene for 20 years. Musically, he likes to move in the area of tension between composition and improvisation. Tours and concerts have taken him through China, Russia, India, Guatemala, the USA, Jordan, Egypt and all of Europe. To date, over 40 recordings with his participation have been released. Since 2013 he has been active as a composer for his own quintet “ROOFER”, which has been able to attract international attention. In 2022, Sisera published the symphonic work CLAZZ. A composition for orchestra and jazz quintet, which was premiered in 2022 with ROOFER and the Kammerphilharmonie Graubünden under the direction of Gaudens Bieri. He has always been interested in interdisciplinary projects. Sisera has worked with writers, cabaret artists, dancers, artists and for theatre and film productions. He is also the curator of the jazz festival “Jazz Linard”, as well as “JazzChur” and initiator of the concert series “Jazz and Pizza” in Kriens (LU).
www.lucasisera.com

 

LUISE VOLKMANN – Alto Saxophone (CLAZZ Project)

Luise Volkmann was born in Bielefeld in 1992. She studied jazz saxophone and flute in Leipzig and Paris and completed her Master’s degree in jazz composition and musicology at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. Her current work takes place in the field of contemporary jazz, composition, as well as free improvisation. As a composer, she was artist in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris in 2016. In 2017 she released her debut album with Été Large on Nils Wogram’s label nWog Records, which was voted one of the best albums of 2017 by Die Zeit. In 2019, album number two followed with the trio “Autochrom”, and in autumn 2020 she recorded the album “When the birds upraise their choir” with Été Large. In 2020 she won a composition residency in Montepulciano, Italy as well as the Kathrin Lemke Prize. In 2021, she was awarded the “Horst and Gretl Will Scholarship for Jazz/Improvised Music” by the city of Cologne and was nominated for the German Jazz Prize in the category “Composition of the Year”.
https://luisevolkmann.jimdo.com/

 

MICHAEL JAEGER – Tenor Saxophone

Michael Jaeger has been active in the Swiss and European jazz scene since 2004. He is quick to Unverändert: Michael Jaeger has been active in the Swiss and European jazz scene since 2004. He is quick to attract attention via the individuality of his improvisation style and his playing concept. To date, his jazz musicians’ collective Michael Jaeger KEROUAC has released three CDs of Jaeger’s music on the renowned label Intakt Records and has played concerts all over Europe. His tours have also taken him to Egypt, the USA and China. Numerous projects in the fields of dance, theatre, electronics, film and literature. Collaborations with Tom Rainey (dr), Greg Osby (as), Urs Leimgruber (ss, ts), Hans Koch (basscl), Axel Dörner (tp), Martin Schütz (cello), Norbert Pfammatter (dr), Philipp Schaufelberger (git), Christian Weber (b), Fabian Gisler (b) and many others.
www.michaeljaeger.ch

 

MAURUS TWERENBOLD – Trombone

Maurus Twerenbold, born in Zug (CH) in 1988, studied jazz trombone at Hochschule Luzern Musik with Nils Wogram, Adrian Mears and Gerry Hemingway as well as composition with Ed Partyka. After completing the master studies in performance in Luzern he continued his studies with an additional masters degree in pedagogy at Jazzcampus Basel. As an exchange student he studied one year at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Eric van Lier and many other great masters. Maurus leads his own project „Maurus Twerenbold Non Harmonic Quartet“ and plays as a sideman in different groups like the Lucerne Jazz Orchestra, the Gamut collective, the David Regan Orchestra and the Lukas Brü gger Jazz Orchestra. He is awardee of the Friedl-Wald-Stiftung 2012 and part of the „Generations Unit 2014“, the awarded band of the international Generations Jazz Festival 2014 in Frauenfeld (CH).
www.maurustwerenbold.ch

 

ANDREAS WAELTI – Bass (CLAZZ Project)

The double bass player Andreas Waelti was born in Thun (Switzerland) in 1980 and studied at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern, the Hochschule für Musik in Basel and the Jazzinstitut Berlin. After completing his double bass studies, he moved to Berlin where he spent a year abroad in the 2005/2006 academic year. In the following five years he played with numerous musicians and bands and toured all over Europe, Asia and South America. As a bandleader, Andreas Waelti attracted attention in 2006 with his own formation “Transit Room”, which provided a brightly coloured exclamation mark in the highly respected Next Generation series of the specialist magazine “Jazz thing” with its remarkable first album “Gordon Pym”. During his six years in Berlin, he was a member of the “Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra” and worked with the band “The Notwist”. Since 2012, the Swiss bassist has been living and working in Vienna, where he has long since earned the status of a much sought-after scene fixture, and with the Berlin quartet “Azolia” he is still firmly rooted in the Berlin scene.
https://www.andreaswaelti.com/

 

YVES THEILER – Piano

Yves Theiler has started his on-stage activity already in his teen years and has been perceived as a prodigious musical talent, as he got selected to join the Swiss K&S Art high school for young talented instrumentalists. Devoted to both composition and improvisation, he is focusing mainly on new composing and arranging concepts for the jazz piano trio format. All along his career he was constantly exposed to different ethnic musical influences, which are reflected in his works. His piano trio “YVES THEILER TRIO” is more than a distinguishable mirroring of his musical talent and has brought him not only local and international recognition, but as well numerous awards and prices.
Yves Theiler is as well the recipient of several scholarships and awards, an acknowledgment of his talent. Moreover, he is a highly demanded sideman in the European Jazz scene and maintains an open minded attitude towards different musical styles.
www.yvestheiler.com

 

DARIO SISERA – Percussion (CLAZZ Project)

Born in 1978 in Chur (GR), percussionist Dario Sisera graduated with a performance jazz diploma from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in 2007. Together with his older brother, the bassist Luca Sisera, the guitarist Franz Hellmüller and the saxophonist Carles Peris, he founded the formation “Radar Suzuki”, with which he first appeared as a composer and has released two albums. Dario Sisera has participated in various jazz projects (including Omri Ziegle’s “Where’s Africa” or Bahur Ghazi’s band “Palmyra”) and has given many concerts at home and abroad. He also works as a producer for various pop and hip-hop projects. Since 2018, he has been teaching “Percussion Jazz” and “Body and Rhythm” at the Lucerne University of Music. In 2004 Sisera received the support grant of the Axelle and Max Koch Cultural Foundation and in 2008 he was awarded a Cultural Advancement Prize of the Canton of Graubünden.
www.dariosisera.ch

 

MICHI STULZ – Drums

Michi Stulz has been active in the European jazz scene for a good ten years. Already at an early
stage, his sensitive, intuitive approach to music and his ability to always play in the service of the music made him a very highly sought-after drummer for a wide range of different groups, such as Christoph Irniger Pilgrim, Lisette Spinnler Quartet, Stefan Aeby Trio, Tobias Preisig, Luca Sisera ROOFER, R.I.S.S. and many more. His involvement in concerts has taken him around the world. He has played in concerts and on tours in Japan, China, South Korea, Malaysia, Peru, Syria, Kosovo and all of Europe. He can currently be heard on over 30 audio releases.
www.michistulz.com