Roger Girod

Roger Girod (born June 2, 1945 in Winterthur ) is a Swiss lawyer and musician.

Live and act

Girod studied by the university first law and settled as a lawyer down. At the same time he received classical music lessons on the organ and piano from Werner Bärtschi . As an autodidact , he approached jazz and improvisational music and completed courses with Karl Berger and Werner Lüdi . In the 1970s he performed musical cabaret with the "Lala Quintet" and played hardbop with the group "GNU" . In a duo with the bass clarinetist Peter Schmid and with the ensemble “atonall”, he increasingly turned to freer jazz. He was also on the road with Jürg Solothurnmann , Ellen Christi or Franziska Baumann and Thomas Hirt in a program with the lyrics by EE Cummings , with which he also made a guest appearance at the Konstanz Jazz Festival. He recorded film scores (for the documentary Louis Conne - a lifetime ), accompanied singers such as La Lupa and Franziska Welti and worked with dancers and actors in interdisciplinary projects. In 1987 he founded the series of concerts for early risers in Winterthur and Zurich , in which he worked with musicians such as Pierre Favre , his son Dominique Girod , Jürg Grau , Barry Guy , Shirley Anne Hofmann , Hans Koch , Lauren Newton , Peter Schärli , Bruno Spoerri and others Streiff worked together.

Girod has been a professional musician since the early 1990s and teaches group and piano improvisation at the Zurich University of the Arts .

In 2012 he was awarded the Carl Heinrich Ernst Art Prize together with his wife Ruth .

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