Christoph Baumann - Piano
Improvising musician, pianist and composer.
Emeritus professor of jazz piano and improvisation at the Lucerne School of Music in Switzerland.
His artistic work moves between the poles of music-theatre and improvisation-composition. The attempt to integrate different musical styles into larger dramatic contexts and his work in interdisciplinary theatre form a constant.
His musical activities have taken him on tours and festivals all over the world as a bandleader or sidemen.
He composes for a wide variety of ensembles, film, dance, theatre and radio plays. His entire musical activity is comprehensively documented on CD.
He is the founder and musical director of the Jerry Dental Kollektdoof and leads the experimental Latin formation Mentalities, the Baumann-Hämmerli-Sextett with Haemi Hammerli and the Haus-Quartett, the large-format Cadavre exquis and the Rezessionsorchester with Urs Blöchlinger. He worked with Jacques Siron in the groups AfroGarage, NuitBalte and the Septett Rouge, Frisé&Acide and realised silent film projects such as: Pane per tutti, Berlin Sinfonie der Grossstadt, Umarete. With Guy Krneta and Isa Weiss he realised the project Familienalbum-Ungerüs, was invited to the Orchestre National de Jazz de La France and was temporarily musical director of the Swiss Improviser's Orchestra...He has written three spoken operas (libretto: FX Nager): Attinghausen, Ds Gräis, Hinter den sieben Bergen as well as the musical theatre Wysel. Various stage projects and radio plays with musicians and theatre-makers such as Barbara Liebster, Ruedi Häusermann, Christoph Marthaler, Nelly Büttikofer, Tom Ryser, Livio Andreina, Ursus&Nadeschkin, Volker Hesse, etc.
Works with musicians and groups of different styles such as : Joe Malinga, Benny Wallace,Tom Scott, Dave Taylor,Tom Varner, Petras Vyshniauskas, Letieres Leite, Urs Blöchlinger, Martin Schlumpf, Marco Käppeli, Dieter Ulrich, Runo Eriksson, Didier Levallet, Ramon Lopez, Laurent Dehors, Gian Luigi Trovesi, Conrad Bauer, Lucilla Galeazzi, Matthias Ziegler, Hans Kennel, Jonas Tauber, Franziska Baumann, Jürg Solothurnmann, Luca Sisera, Rätus Flisch, Hämi Hämmerli, Tony Renold, Lauren Newton, Elio Amberg. Les Passeurs d' Instants, Omnibus, Nuevo Sabor, Picason, Swiss-Fusion, Bermuda Viereck, Orchestre National de Jazz de La France , La Marmite Infernale, Schweizer Schlagzeugsemble, Pedro Libre and his Friends, No Secrets in the Family, Swiss Improvisers Orchestra, Hausquartett, Potage de Jour, Ton 3, Neal Davis Sextett, Pianoduo with Anto Pett, Duo ‘Interzones’ with Franziska Baumann, Bahur Ghazi's Palmyra.
