Albin Brun

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Albin Brun at the Willisau Jazz Festival 2008

Albin Brun (born August 21, 1959 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss jazz and world musician ( saxophone , Schwyzerörgeli , Duduk , flutes , other instruments, composition) and is regarded in Switzerland as "a key figure in the scene between jazz and new folk music".

Live and act

Brun began to play in bands such as Zöpflimusig, Cantum la Canzon and AHV Folk in the 1970s . He studied at the Lucerne Academy for School and Church Music (graduated in 1984 with the Diploma School Music I) and at the jazz schools in Lucerne, Bern and St. Gallen.

At first he played in bands like René Widmers IG Freude , Saxoflex or the René Twerenbold Big Band . Then he developed an atmospherically dense, permeable musical language on his saxophones and the Schwyzerörgeli. He founded his own groups such as the Interkantonale Blasabfuhr , which initially played street music and since 1989 has released four albums. This was followed by Albin Alpine quintet , Kraanich , Albin Brun Alpin Ensemble , Albin Bruns NAH Trio or NAH Quartet , Albin Brun Trio & Isa Wiss and Kazalpin (3 singers from Belarus), with which he presented since 2000 more albums. There were also (duo) performances with musicians as diverse as Paul Giger , Bruno Amstad , Ricardo Regidor , Isa Wiss , Ruedi Häusermann , Markus Lauterburg, Andy Aegerter, Claudio Strebel, Andi Gabriel, Agnes Hunger, Maria Walpen, Christian Hartmann, Roland von Flüe , Florian Favre , Balts Nill , Patricia Draeger ( Glisch d'Atun , 2016) or the vocal group Vocabular . In the trio Sputnik Muzik he worked with guitarist Othmar Brügger and percussionist Willy Kotoun in jazz idiom ( overflight , 2007). He was also involved in Corin Curschellas ' La Grischa and a member of the Frächdächs (improvised children's concerts with Isa Wiss, Luca Sisera , Markus Lauterburg) and in the Andreas Gabriel Ensemble . From 2017 he often plays in a duo with the cellist and Swiss orchestra player Kristina Brunner and is a member of the Ala Fekra Project with musicians from Switzerland and Egypt.

As a multi-instrumentalist and composer, he has written and played music for many theater productions and interdisciplinary projects such as dance theater, radio plays on Radio SRF, DOK films SRF, choir projects and readings. He worked u. a. with the magician Alex Porter and with authors such as Thomas Hürlimann, Franz Hohler , Gisela Widmer, Stefanie Grob, Paul Steinmann, Tim Krohn , Beat Sterchi, Lorenz Marti and many more

Brun is a guest lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, where he also directed the folk music ensemble Alpinis from 2017 (CD 2019 of the same name). Since 1991 he has been teaching saxophone at the Lucerne Cantonal School.

Prizes and awards

Brun received a work grant from the city and canton of Lucerne in 1995 and the Kriens community sponsorship award in 1999. In 2001 he was honored with the SAC Culture Prize. In 2013 he received the Art and Culture Prize of the City of Lucerne , endowed with CHF 25,000 , because "with his broad musical oeuvre he has shaped jazz, folk music and the theater landscape in Switzerland for over thirty years". In 2017 he was awarded a Swiss Music Prize by the Federal Office of Culture .

Discographic notes

  • Albin Brun & Kristina Brunner Midnang (self-distribution 2020)
  • Albin Brun Trio & Isa Wiss Lied.Schatten (Ship of Fools 2018)
  • Albin Brun & Patricia Draeger Glisch d'Atun (Ship of Fools 2016)
  • Kazalpin Sniezki / Schnee ( Double Moon Records 2015, with Patricia Draeger, Claudio Strebel, Marco Käppeli and Akana from Belarus)
  • Albin Bruns NAH Quartet Wegmarken (Double Moon Records 2014, with Andi Gabriel, Marc Unternährer , Andy Aegerter and Christian Zehnder )
  • Albin Bruns Alpin Ensemble Sphères Alpines (Phonag 2010, with Tobias Preisig , Patricia Draeger, Christian Hartmann, Marco Käppeli )
  • Albin Bruns NAH Trio Fernsicht (Bergtöne 2009), with Marc Unternährer , Andy Aegerter
  • Albin Brun & Bruno Amstad Albireo (Bazaarpool 2009)
  • Sputnik Muzik Überflug ( Unit Records 2007), with Othmar Brügger and Willy Kotoun
  • Albin Bruns NAH Trio NAH-Recordings (Alpentöne 2006), with Marc Unternährer , Andy Aegerter
  • Albins Alpin Quintet Pilatus Suite ( Altrisuoni 2003, with Pascal Bruggisser, Marc Unternährer, Roland von Flüe , Marco Käppeli)
  • Albin Brun Pilatus (Altrisuoni 2001, with Bruno Amstad)
  • Kraanich Pas de valse (Altrisuoni 2000, with Pascal Bruggisser, Roberto Frei, Andy Aegerter)
  • Intercantonal blow discharge 4 ( Plainisphare 1999, with Lars Lindvall , Urs Koller, René Widmer, Marc Unterstährer, Marco Käppeli)
  • Intercantonal Blasabfuhr 3 ( Unit Records 1995, with Urs Koller, Beat Blaser , René Widmer, Michael Frey , Marco Käppeli)
  • Intercantonal blow removal (Kompost Rekords 1989, with Urs Koller, Beat Blaser, René Widmer, Michael Frey, Christoph Bättig)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Swiss Music Prize (2017 winner)
  2. ↑ Intercantonal blow evacuation is arriving. In: Jungfrau newspaper . December 16, 2002
  3. ^ East Side Story. In: Jazz thing . January 16, 2012 (meeting)
  4. ^ Albin Brun & Patricia Draeger Glisch d'Atun. In: Website of the Cappella Culture Club
  5. ↑ Concert announcement - Stanser Musiktage - music festival. Retrieved March 23, 2019 .
  6. ^ Art and Culture Prize of the City of Lucerne for Albin Brun. In: Swiss music newspaper . 13th of May 2013
personal data
SURNAME Brun, Albin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss jazz and world musicians
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne