Sarah Chaksad

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Sarah Chaksad (born December 9, 1983 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss jazz musician ( saxophone , composition ).

Live and act

Chaksad, who grew up in Wohlen , received recorder and piano lessons at the age of five ; at the age of nine she switched to the saxophone. At the canton school in Wohlen she was taught the saxophone by Matthias Baumann. She discovered her passion for composing while studying music as a major. In 2004 she presented her self-composed choral compositions for the Matura , which were premiered with the school choir. From 2005 she attended the preliminary course at the Bern Jazz School. Then she studied at the University of Education in Bern . As part of her bachelor thesis, she composed children's songs and produced a song book with an accompanying CD; In 2008 her work was recognized as the best bachelor thesis of the year. By 2011 she completed an instrumental course at the Basel School of Music with Daniel Blanc and Domenic Landolf . She began to deal intensively with arrangement and composition and took big band arrangement lessons with Lars Lindvall and composition lessons with Guillermo Klein .

In 2010 Chaksad founded the large-format pop-soul band Neighborship (until 2013 Neighborhood ), whose album of the same name was released in 2014. Since 2012 she has directed the (initially 15-strong) Sarah Chaksad Orchestra , for which she also writes and arranges. In the summer of 2013 she played her master's degree concert with this formation at the Bird's Eye jazz club in Basel ; In 2015 she went on tour with him; she also played in Jonas Winterhalter's big band ; She was also a co-founder and member of the large formation Cloud Cluster Collective . In 2016 she released her debut album Windmond with the Sarah Chaksad Orchestra . The second album Tabriz followed in 2019 on Neuklang Records . She is also musical director and composer of the International Female Musicians Collective IFMC , which brings together jazz musicians from Norway, Denmark, Germany, France and Switzerland and went on tour for the first time in 2017.

Chaksad has headed the Jazzcampus Club Basel since 2015 and was jointly responsible for the cultural concept of the Brugg Steamship Culture Club until the end of 2017. She is the curator of the Schaffhausen Jazz Talks 2017/18/19 and, together with Wolfgang Muthspiel, heads the focus year at the Jazz Campus in Basel (an internationally advertised annual scholarship).

Prizes and awards

Chaksad was selected as a Pro Argovia Artist by the Pro Argovia Foundation in 2013 and included in the funding program for the 2013/14 season. In 2018 she received a grant from the Aargau Board of Trustees.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neighborship
  2. ↑ Manuel Gasser: The piano became the saxophone. In: Swiss music newspaper . 1/2, 2017 (short portrait).
  3. ↑ Appreciation as Pro Argovia Artist
  4. ^ Aargau Board of Trustees
personal data
SURNAME Chaksad, Sarah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss jazz musician (saxophone, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne