Brigitte Dietrich

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Brigitte Dietrich (born March 17, 1965 in Thun ) is a Swiss jazz musician ( piano , composition , arrangement ).

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Dietrich began taking piano lessons at the age of eight. Before graduating from high school, she played in the bands Schwärpunkt and Lapsus Mundartrock , then in the group No Fish Today jazz rock . She first studied jazz piano with Joe Haider and William Evans at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern , and from 1995 to 1997 she was taught by Joanne Brackeen , Ray Santisi and Kenny Werner at Berklee College of Music in Boston . She first learned jazz composition from Greg Hopkins . Then she returned to Switzerland, where she graduated from the Swiss Jazz School in 1999 .

Before that she played in Erwin's Big Band from Friborg, in the Trio Berla-Dietrich-Reiff, with Three for Jazz , the Second Line Big Band , in the Trio Femmetastique and the Katrin Hubacher Quartet. She also founded her own group with which she appears in quartet and trio formats. Since 1999 she has composed and arranged for various formations by Joe Haider, with whom she directed the Brigitte Dietrich – Joe Haider Jazz Orchestra . Appearances with the big band took her to Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland. In 2001 she received an arrangement contract from the New York label Arkadia . She has taught at two music schools in Aargau and leads private workshops.

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  1. ↑ Portrait (Joe Haider) ( Memento from October 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Dietrich, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss jazz musician (piano, composition, arrangements)
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuna