Andreas Tschopp

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Andreas Tschopp (born May 15, 1979 in Zurich ) is a Swiss modern jazz musician . He plays the trombone and bass trombone .

Live and act

Tschopp, whose younger brother is the saxophonist Matthias Tschopp , studied trombone in the jazz department of the Basel School of Music with Adrian Mears until 2003 . Already at this time he belonged to the radio band Starch , with whom he recorded several albums and toured internationally. Then he became a member of groups such as Kaspar Ewald's Exorbitantes Kabinett , the Swiss Jazz Orchestra and von Hildegard learns to fly , where he has been involved in four albums so far (2015). In 2009 he founded the Vertigo Trombone Quartet with Jan Schreiner , Bernhard Bamert and Nils Wogram , with whom he was involved in the production of Wagnerin at the Bavarian State Opera at the Munich Opera Festival in 2012 . With Marc Stucky and Kyle Shepherd he founded the band Skylark .

Tschopp also played in Bob Brookmeyer's New Art Orchestra , in the big band with Herbie Hancock , Chaka Khan , James Moody and Al Jarreau , which was put together in 2009 for the 75th birthday of Quincy Jones in Montreux , the Generations Festival band 2004 with Kenny Werner , Dick Oatts and Gary Smulyan and in Johannes Lauer's Lauer Large . He has also performed with musicians such as Hans Feigenwinter , Adi Pflugshaupt, Mats Spilmann, Colin Vallon and Dominik Egli. He can also be heard on albums by Lars Lindvall , Heidi Happy , Reto Suhner , Le Rex , Martin Streule , the Zurich Jazz Orchestra and the Lucerne Jazz Orchestra .

He has given concerts at the North Sea Jazz Festival , the Willisau Jazz Festival , the Montreux Jazz Festival and the moers Festival as well as at jazznojazz Zurich, the Cully Jazz Festival , the jz Festival Shanghai and the Festival for Music and Dance Bangkok .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le Rex (Cuneiform)
  2. ↑ Deep sheet in dialogue - the Tschopp brothers (SRF)
personal data
SURNAME Tschopp, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss modern jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich