Eliane Cueni
Eliane Cueni (born July 5, 1963 in Laufen ; † December 25, 2016 ) was a Swiss jazz pianist .
Live and act
Cueni received classical piano lessons as a child. Between 1988 and 1990 she attended the Basel Jazz School, and then from 1990 to 1994 she studied with Christoph Baumann and Olivier Truan at the Lucerne Jazz School . During her studies, she founded a quintet with saxophonist Gitta Kahle , which also toured Germany and the Czech Republic, released three albums and lasted until 2002. In 1994 she formed the duo Zut (with saxophonist Susanne Müller), since 1995 she had her own septet, from which she occasionally outsourced a trio for tours. With the singer Helene Iten and the bassist Sandra Merk, she continued to form the core of the group “Dirk”. She was also a member of Birgit Ellmerer's Sophisticated Lady and of Markus Moser's quintet M2 / 5 , with whom she recorded two albums and performed in Cuba in 2004 .
Cueni died on December 25, 2016.
Discographic notes
- Eliane Cueni-Gitta Kahle Quintet A Timeless Place (with Marco Figini, Björn Meyer , Harald Haerter , Lukas Bitterlin, Erik Truffaz ; Plainisphare , 1996–98)
- Eliane Cueni-Gitta Kahle Quintet Slow Motion (Brambus, 2001)
- Zut tincture (Brambus, 2001, with Susanne Müller )
- Eliane Cueni Septet Hey Hag (with Daniel Schenker , Vincent Lachat , Daniel Blanc, Domenic Landolf , Emanuel Schnyder, Lukas Bitterlin; Turicaphon, 2001)
- Dirk Permanentes (Turicaphon, 2007)
Lexical entry
- Bruno Spoerri (Hrsg.): Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Jazz CD supplement to: Spoerri, Bruno (Hrsg.): Jazz in Switzerland. History and stories . Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0739-6
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Commemorative page by Eliane Cueni. In: www.gedenkzeit.ch. Retrieved January 6, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cueni, Eliane |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th July 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Running BL |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 2016 |