Peter A. Schmid

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Peter A. Schmid (born October 2, 1959 in Zurich ) is a Swiss doctor and improvisation musician. He has been active as a musician for more than thirty years and moves between jazz , new improvisational music and new music . He plays clarinets, saxophones and flutes and is particularly fascinated by the deep woodwind instruments . In addition to bass clarinet and baritone saxophone, he also plays bass flute , alto and double bass clarinet and tubaxe in Eb and Bb.

Live and act

As a specialist, he practices in a joint gastroentological practice in Feldmeilen .

From 1980 Schmid attended the Lucerne Jazz School, where Urs Leimgruber taught him. He first played in the “Q 4 Orchestra”, where he met Jürg Grau , Hans Anliker and Werner Lüdi , then in the “MorschAchblasorCHester” and other formations around Mani Planzer . In the past fifteen years he has mainly played in a duo - with musicians such as Vinny Golia , Evan Parker , Pierre Favre , Lucas Niggli , Nils Wogram , Barry Guy , Ned Rothenberg and Mathias Ziegler. He also leads the quintet "September Wind", which also includes Evan Parker, Hans Anliker and Jürg Solothurnmann and whose first album was recorded in an empty Zurich water reservoir in 2000, the quartet "Schmilz", in which Michel Pilz is the second bass clarinetist . and a trio with guitarist Jerry Royas and percussionist Ivan Manzanilla. In 2010 and 2011 the musician appeared in Fritz Novotny's reformArtunit .

Discographic notes

  • September Duos with Evan Parker ( Creative Works , 2000)
  • Schmilz mit Pilz, Herbert Kramis, Dominik Burger, (Creative Works, 2001)
  • Short Stories with Evan Parker and September Winds ( Leo Records , 2004)
  • Birdology with Vinny Golia (Leo Records, 2004)
  • En passant with Ned Rothenberg (Creative Works, 2004)
  • Chicago Conversations (Creative Works, 2015)

Lexigraphic entries

  • Bruno Spoerri , Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Jazz CD supplement to: B. Spoerri (Hrsg.): Jazz in Switzerland. History and stories. Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2005; ISBN 3-0340-0739-6

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