Karin Meier

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Karin Meier (* around 1980 in Zürcher Weinland ) is a Swiss jazz musician ( vocals , composition ).

Live and act

Meier began taking recorder lessons at the age of five, and a little later also the piano . As a teenager she joined the Winterthur acid jazz band "Critical Acid" as a singer ; With this formation she recorded albums such as Tiefenrausch (2000) and Fictions (2003) and gave concerts all over Switzerland: there were also television and radio appearances. She then studied jazz singing at the Lucerne School of Music with Lauren Newton and Susanne Abbuehl until she graduated in 2007 . This was followed by further studies in classical singing with Barbara Locher and participation in two theater projects by Nelly Büttikofer (2007, 2010).

Meier has been the singer of the Lucerne Jazz Orchestra since 2007 , with whom she has performed in numerous European countries and has released several albums. In addition, she was active as a singer, composer and arranger in other projects: With her quartet Forest Radio , she only presented her own songs on the album We Came Out of Calm on Unit Records in 2014 ; In 2019 the second album From Sky to Earth and Back followed . In the Trio Meierlies she interprets songs in dialect. In 2012 she performed several times with the NDR Big Band under the direction of Jörn Marcussen-Wulff and his program Stories Untold . She can also be heard on Stefanie Kunckler's album Ymonos .

Meier works as a singing teacher at both the Lucerne School of Music and the Lucerne School of Education . She is married and has two kids.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ She should not be confused with the pop singer of the same name from Valais who appears as Kaja . See entry on RadioSwissPop
  2. ↑ SRF: Jazz und World aktuell on April 9, 2019
  3. ↑ Interview (Stories Untold)
personal data
SURNAME Meier, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss jazz musician (vocals, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich wine country