Hans Hassler

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Hans Hassler (* 1945 in Chur ) is a Swiss accordionist whose musical spectrum ranges from folk music to film, jazz and improvisation music to classical music.

Life

Hassler grew up in Chur in a folk music family. His father played the double bass in a country band, his uncle the hand organ. He got his first accordion at the age of seven and then played in various bands in his home region.

In 1956 the accordion player Kurt Heusser became his teacher, who also introduced him to classical music for the first time; later he also studied with Hugo Noth . With two brothers he was active as Hassler Buebe in the country scene. He also started playing the clarinet at the age of sixteen .

From 1964 to 1966 Hassler completed an apprenticeship as a sound engineer in Detmold , for which he learned to play the piano, after which he studied English and musicology for four semesters in Zurich, and from 1969 clarinet at the Zurich Music Academy. In addition, he toured as an entertainment musician (including with the pop singer Peter Hinnen ) and occasionally played Dixieland , from 1974 with the Schanfigger Lander Quintet Bündner Volksmusik.

In the 1980s he was a student of Mogens Ellegaard in Copenhagen . In 1988 he made his debut as an accordion soloist at the Jazz Festival in the Zürcher Volkshaus. He then played with the avant-garde jazz group Habarigani and Mathias Rüeggs Vienna Art Orchestra and took part in performances and recordings by Ivano Torre , Beat Follmi , Koch - Schütz - Studer and Gebhard Ullmann ( Ta Lam 11: Mingus!, 2011). At the end of 2007 he recorded his first solo album sehr schnee sehr wald very , which was followed by other solo albums on Intakt Records ( Wie die Zeit nach mir her , 2017).

In 2018 he received the Central Switzerland Culture Prize "for his creative work across all disciplines and his numerous collaborations with theater and music professionals in Central Switzerland".

literature

  • Ronald Sonderegger: Master of musical boundaries, Hans Hassler, composer and instrumental soloist, masters classical, jazz and folk music in equal measure , Sunday newspaper, January 16, 1994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Central Switzerland Culture Prize goes to Hans Hassler . In: Luzerner Zeitung , March 21, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Hassler, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss accordionist
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Chur