Balthasar Streiff

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Balthasar Streiff (* 1963 ) is a Swiss alphorn player and music performer .

Life

Balthasar Streiff grew up in Baden and now lives in Basel . After completing his basic studies at the Lucerne Jazz School (trumpet and singing), he founded the Duo Stimmhorn together with Christian Zehnder in 1996 , with which he has received several awards and has made numerous CDs, films and musical theater. This was followed by concert tours all over the world, cooperation with Huun-Huur-Tu , the African overtone choir Noquolnquo and Mercan Dede .

Since 1998 Streiff has received composition commissions, including a. as a stage musician / performer from Theater Basel , the Salzburg Festival , Swiss radio and television , the SIA for the concert hall of the KKL Luzern or as artistic director of the opening of the Lucerne Festival in 2009. In 2002 he founded the company together with Michael Büttler, Jennifer Tauder and Lukas Briggen Modern Alphorn Quartet Hornroh. From 2005 to 2009 he continued his education in the baroque trumpet at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with JF Madeuf. In 2007 he had a teaching position as a freelance lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences for alphorn and Büchel in the folk music department. With the instrument maker Otto Emmenegger, Balthasar Streiff set new accents in modern alphorn making.

In 2013, the first solo project StreiffTöne followed with the alphorn and his own texts, directed by the Swiss clown Pello. He is also active in the Alpin Project . Balthasar Streiff's horns meet with Thomas Aeschbacher's Örgeli and Singoh Nketias beats. He is the artistic director of the Berlin Alphorn Orchestra .

Discography

Voice horn

  • Heimatklänge (Soundtrack, 2007)
  • igloo (Stimmhorn & kold electronics, 2004)
  • inland (2001)
  • snow (1997)
  • milking (1996)

Hornroh

  • gletsc (2015)
  • Boulder (2009)
  • zirp (2003)
  • sanshi: purple mountain (2001)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Streiff tones
  2. ↑ Alpin Project
personal data
SURNAME Streiff, Balthasar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss alphorn player and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1963