Araxi Karnusian

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Araxi Karnusian (born February 19, 1969 in Gstaad ) is an Armenian jazz musician ( tenor and soprano saxophone ) and composer who lives in Switzerland .

Live and act

Karnusian received violin lessons from 1976. After moving to Bern in 1985, where she attended high school, she had saxophone lessons with Domenic Landolf from 1989 and initially played in a rock band . After graduating from high school in 1990, she began studying art and architecture history as well as ethnology . During this time she played in the Grand Orchester de Culture and Elephantsoup and began training at the Swiss Jazz School . In 1993 she decided to pursue a career as a musician and founded the women's saxophone quartet Lady Face (with Nina Kubik, Annette Kitagawa , Lisette Wyss), for which she also composed and arranged. Since 1995 she has also belonged to the Mayeya salsa group ; then she founded the duo Laut and Luise (with Rahel Thierstein). From 1998 she continued her education at the Jazz School Lucerne , which she graduated in 2003. She performed at the Jazz Festival Montreux with Maira Leon y su grupo , founded her own quartet and in 2004 with the drummer Dominic Egli and the guitarist Michael Bucher the bassless trio K: E: B, with whom she also toured Cyprus . She also played with the Francesca Keller Group, for which she also composed, and the Touch Point Orchestra with Enrico Pieranunzi . The miniature orchestra with two percussionists and four wind instruments performs their compositions.

She also wrote for the film ( Ouverture d'une armoire , 2003; dance short film break ). With the composition "Judas or I owe my conviction to your fate" for strings and timpani, she won a grant from the Canton of Bern in 2005.

Discographic notes

  • loud and luise Open That Door (2006)
  • Araxi Karnusian Strange Sounds - Beautiful Music Interrupted (2007)
  • K: E: B Gunzgen South (2008)
  • loud and luise fresh snow (2009)
  • Miniature Orchestra Pro specie rara (2009)

Lexical entries

  • Bruno Spoerri (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Jazz. CD supplement to: Bruno Spoerri (Ed.): Jazz in Switzerland. History and stories. Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0739-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See stylistic diversity, artistic profile: Contrasting concerts at the 22nd Schaffhausen Jazz Festival Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 23 May 2011
personal data
SURNAME Karnusian, Araxi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Gstaad