Michel Wintsch

Michel Wintsch (* 1964 in Geneva ) is a Swiss pianist and composer .

Live and act

Wintsch learned the piano from the age of seven. After completing his training at the music school, he studied composition privately with Jacques Demierre and began composing for the theater. As a pianist, he was part of rock music and jazz groups , but also played new music . He played with Martin Schütz , Michel Doneda and Ray Anderson, among others . With Gerry Hemingway and Bänz Oester he formed a long-term trio with whom he also made guest appearances in the USA. He also plays in Gabriela Friedli's quintet and in a trio with Béatrice Graf . In the field of improvised rock music he worked with Fred Frith , the flautist Franziska Baumann and the drummer Bernard Trontin in the project «Whisperings».

As a composer, he has also been writing film scores since 1989 , especially for Alain Tanner , but also for Marie-Luce Felber , Blaise Piguet , Claudio Tonetti , Carole Bonstein , Ursula Meier and Jean-Marc Pasquet . The critic Carl Baugher described his compositional style as "dramatic and extremely dynamic": "Rhythmically as interesting as it is harmonious and melodic, Wintsch's music is multifaceted and constantly changing."

WAAMAT (quatre tableaux pour nonet) (Unit 1994)
Autour de Bartók (Unit)
Road Movie (Between the lines, 1998)
Wintsch / Hemmingway / Oster: Open Songs ( Altrisuoni 2002)
Michel Wintsch, Christian Weber, Christian Wolfarth: Willisau ( Hatology , 2014)

Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 2: M – Z (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16513). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16513-9 .
Bruno Spoerri : Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Jazz. CD supplement to: Bruno Spoerri (Ed.): Jazz in Switzerland. History and stories. Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0739-6 .