Dave Gisler
Dave Gisler (* 1983 in Altdorf UR ) is a Swiss jazz musician ( guitar , composition).
Live and act
As a primary school student, Gisler received private music lessons from his parents; His first teacher on the classical guitar was his father from the age of eight. At the age of 18 he attended the vocational department of the Musikhochschule Luzern , Jazz department, where he was taught by Christy Doran and Kurt Rosenwinkel (graduation performance 2006).
Gisler has been a member of the Lucerne Jazz Orchestra since it was founded , and he can also be heard on their sound carriers. He is a founding member of the band NoReduce , in which he plays with Nasheet Waits . With this band, with the Egli-Santana Group, Noflores, Triots, Asmin, Mat Down and Mumur , he toured in Japan, Russia, the USA and Europe. Even with the band Pilgrim of Christoph Irniger and the band Weird Beard saxophonist Florian Egli he released albums and appeared internationally. He leads his own trio, for which he also writes his own compositions. He also founded the Sonar Ensemble with bassist Raffaele Bossard and drummer Alex Huber .
Gisler, who also belongs to the Swiss Jazz Orchestra , has given concerts with musicians such as Dave Douglas , Ohad Talmor , Peter Frei , Nat Su , Heiri Känzig , Lucas Niggli , Fabian Gisler , Claudio Puntin , Matthias Spillmann , John Voirol, Jean-Paul Brodbeck , Samuel Rohrer , Chris Wiesendanger , Lisette Spinnler and Domenic Landolf . He can also be heard on albums by Gregor Freis Asmin and the Notebook Ensemble by Frantz Loriot and Manuel Perovic .
Gisler received funding from the Canton of Uri in 2010 for a studio stay in New York. In 2016 he was supported with the Urner Werkjahr sponsorship award, endowed with 20,000 francs .
Discographic notes
- Dave Gisler's Shizzle Dream ( Unit Records 2010, with Michael Jaeger , Tobias Meier, Luca Sisera , Michael Stulz)
- Sonar Ensemble While You Were Gone (Unit Records 2010)
- No Flores Let Them Come (Wide Ear Records 2014, with Tobias Meier and Jonas Ruther)
Web links
- Short biography (Das Nothing)
- portrait
- interview
- Dave Gisler at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gisler's search for his own sound , December 9, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gisler, Dave |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss jazz musician (guitar, composition) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altdorf UR |