Sonja Huber

Sonja Huber (born November 11, 1982 in Staufen AG ) is a Swiss jazz musician ( vibraphone , marimbaphone , composition ).

Live and act

Huber, who grew up in Staufen, received piano lessons from the age of ten. As a teenager she founded her first band Chrysalis , with which she was awarded a prize by the Aargau Board of Trustees. At the age of 20 she changed instruments and took vibraphone and drum lessons . From 2003 to 2008 she studied jazz vibraphone with Urs Wiesner at the University of Music in Basel and with David Friedman at the Berlin University of the Arts . She also attended master classes with Joe Lovano , Gary Burton , Jorge Rossy , Chris Potter and Jim Black . Already during her studies she founded her own quartet; In 2012 the debut album of their quartet was released.

Since 2007 Huber has performed with the singer Eva Buchmann in the duo Lottchen ; his albums Traveling Birds and Quiet Storm received a lot of media attention. In the Pine & Stone project she plays with the singer Marisa Burn, with whom she already worked at Chrysalis . In recent years she has also appeared at Art Unlimited in Basel, for example as a soloist with the Symphony Orchestra Variation and with Anna Rossinelli and I Quattro . Huber continues to work at various music schools in Switzerland.

Prizes and awards

Huber and her quartet were awarded Pro Argovia Artist 2009/2010 by the Pro Argovia Foundation.

Discographic notes

• Lottchen Quiet Storm ( GLM 2016, with Eva Buchmann)
• Pine & Stone Home (Burning Lights 2016, with Marisa Burn)
• Lottchen Traveling Birds (GLM 2013, with Eva Buchmann)
• GLM Allstars The Sonnenhausen Sessions (GLM 2014)
• Sonja Huber Quartet William's Garden ( Double Moon Records 2012; with Daniel Bolli, Martin Wyss, Matthias Siegrist)

Web links

• Web presence
• Portrait of jazz ethics
• Sonja Huber at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography (Kulturstadel)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Short biography (Pro Argovia)
3. ↑ Discussion of Jazzthing 112
4. ^ Pine & Stone