Florian Weiss (musician)
Florian Weiss (* 1991 in Zurich ) is a Swiss jazz musician ( trombone , composition ).
Live and act
Weiss started playing the trombone at the age of nine. After attending grammar school in Zurich, he obtained his Matura in 2010 with a focus on music. From 2012 to 2015 he studied jazz at the Bern University of the Arts with Bernhard Bamert, Bert Joris and Frank Sikora . He then completed his master's degree in jazz performance in 2017 with distinction at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences with Nils Wogram , Andreas Tschopp and Markus Wüest. As part of his studies, he takes part in master's classes with Ray Anderson , Robin Eubanks , Ilja Reijngoud , Mark Turner , Alex Sipiagin and Lage Lund . A stay for musical training in New York City followed.
In 2014 Weiss founded the Woodoism quartet with Linus Amstad on saxophone, Valentin von Fischer on double bass and Philipp Leibundgut on drums, for which he composed. The band's debut album was released in 2017 and, in addition to touring in Switzerland, also toured in Hungary, Austria, Slovakia and Germany. With this band he followed up with the album Refugium in 2019 . With the clarinetist Philipp Hillebrand and the drummer Clemens Kuratle, he also founded the Trio La Môme in 2015 , which initially dedicated itself to the music of Édith Piaf (debut album 2017) and toured Russia in 2018. Weiss is also active in Clemens Kuratles Murmullo (album of the same name in 2016), in the sextet by Tome Iliev ( Sketches of Macedonia 2019), in the Ensemble Fussyduck or in the trio Baumgartner / Gurtner / Weiss. He can also be heard on albums by the Benjamin Knecht Jazz Orchestra, VEIN ( Vein Plays Ravel 2017), Šuma Čovjek and Michael Wertmüller .
Prizes and awards
In 2014 Weiss was part of the DKSJ All Star Project led by Thomas Mejer ; the following year his quartet Woodoism was on the way to the DKSJ Best of Swiss Jazz Bachelors . With Woodoism he won the ZKB Jazz Prize (and the Audience Prize) in 2018 . With Fussyduck he received the BeJazz Transnational award in 2019.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weiss, Florian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss jazz musician (trombone, composition) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |