In February I was invited to the Jazzwerkstatt Festival in Bern, which gave me the opportunity to present a brand new project called High Striker with a bunch of friends who happen to be wonderful musicians too! Here are four of the pieces we played, including beautiful music by Jörn and my brother Gregor. Gregor […]
I’m extremely looking forward to the ninth edition of the Jazzwerkstatt festival which starts this Wednesday, February 24. It’s more than a festival. Marc Stucki, Benedikt Reising and Andreas Schaerer started this adventure, building a young jazz community here in Bern, gathering musicians from all over the world sharing music and the same passion about it. The
On a recent trip to New York I met the talented photographer Mariana Meraz. She took some great pictures of me in the beautiful scenery of this city.
I’ll be at the Jazzahead! exhibition in Bremen April 23 – 26. Always a great possibility to meet people from around the world and discover some new music. I’m based at the booth «Music Made In Switzerland» (Hall 6, Booth 6C10) and will present some news from the Lucerne Jazz Orchestra, my brother’s band Asmin, the
«The Jazzwerkstatt Bern is a musicians’ collective. It’s a house with many rooms – the members all play together in different ensembles, they’ve got a big band parked out in the garage that they rev up on weekends, they’ve got a record label bubbling in the basement and they organize an eponymous festival. The Jazzwerkstatt
Nov 22, 2013 / BeJazz, Bern (CH) / Isabelle Ritter (voc/comp), Lukas Roos (cl/bcl), Florian Favre (p), Jeremias Keller (eb), Thomas Blanchat (dr), Lukas Thöni (flh), Lukas Frei (mellophonium), Wieslaw Pipczynski (theremin) Web isabelleritter.ch / Illustration nicolepfister.ch / Photos lichtwanderer.ch
I had the great pleasure of joining Ingrid Lukas Extended including the choir of Kollegi Stans for the concert at Stanser Musiktage. May 07, 2011