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1976
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born 1976 in obfelden, zürich
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1986
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courses in music, youthchoire and lessons in drumming
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1992-1994
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drumlessons with andy brugger and workshops at the jazz school zürich
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1994
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member of the youth orchestra of the zürich conservatory, tour in the USA
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1995
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ongoing support through bassist peter frei; member of the youthbigband of the „soziale musikschule zurich“
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1996-1997
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member of the swiss youth jazz orchestra (soloists bob berg, randy brecker, bill pierce, mark soskin...)
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1997-2001
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studies at the hmt/swiss jazz school bern with billie brooks, is member of the swiss jazz school bigband for two years (leader bert joris; soloists phillip catherine, jimmy heath, clark terry, phil woods...)
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1998
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three month in nyc: ten week program at the drummer's collective, privatlessons with billie hart; winner of the award at the international "generations98" meeting in frauenfeld; endorsement-contract with giannini swiss drums
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2000
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winner of the first prize at the "contemporary patterns"- contest in bern with the robi lakatos trio; tour with the marianne racine quartet
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2001
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founds the trio-project "plurism" (with peter frei, b, domenic landolf, ts/bcl); spends two month in ghana, westafrica, studies with masterdrummers
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2002
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concerts, cd-recordings; houseband at the „generations02“ with the Don Friedman Trio; tour with matsup
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2003
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member of the crossover project "Strange Sounds - Beautiful Music" by Araxi Karnusian, works for the dance-movie "ouverture d'une armoire" by ines meyer (filmfestival solothurn), concerts, cd-recordings
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2004
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concerts and recordings; performs a full month with the luca stoll trio/quartet at the „théatre l’oriental“in vevey (cd „what the thunder said“); 2 weeks with the malcolm braff trio; stays 3 month in NYC, studies at the SIM (school for improvised music) with henry grimes, drew gress, matana roberts, ralph alessi, andy milne; private lessons with nasheet waits, ari hoenig, adriano santos (brasil); producer and drummer for the album „three trios“ by bassist peter frei
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2005
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tour with matsup through south africa; stays and performs in paris for 8 month, participates the "bioart"-project; records with matsup „pictures of an exibition“ by modest mussorsky, release-tour with peter frei’s „three trios“
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2006
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tour and cd-recording with the robi lakatos trio "never let me go", tour on cyprus with koullouras/karnusian/egli
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2007
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cd-recording with strange sounds - beautiful music, tour on cyprus with koullouras/karnusian/egli, performs with the duo "whirlpool" at the "bernau minifestival 07", cd-recording with the marcos jimenez trio "different", tour in germany with matsup
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2008
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cd-recording with K:E:B on elba (release october 08 on unit records), tour in germany with matsup, member of the trio DEGEN/FREI/EGLI, co-founds the miniaturorchester (cd "pro specie rara", unit records) cd-recording with the oli kuster kombo (cd "flokati", unit records)
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...has played with: andy scherrer, tony lakatos, grégoire maret, franco ambrosetti, dado moroni, don friedman, richie beirach, roman schwaller, rich perry, peter frei, antonio farao, kurt rosenwinkel, nils wogram, malcolm braff, leo tardin, mathieu michel, antonio farao, reggie johnson, donat fisch, cyril bugnon, baenz oester, russ johnson, george robert, chris wiesendanger, tom arthurs etc...
...is member of: mats up, peter frei's standard movement, oli kuster kombo, silvio cadotsch odem, Stefano Romerio 4tet, araxi karnusian's strange sounds - beautiful music, daniel schlaeppi's voices...
...co-leads: K:E:B (karnusian/egli/bucher), MINIATURORCHESTER, duo whirlpool
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