Töbi Tobler

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Töbi Tobler (* 1953 in Eschlikon as Jürg Peter ) is a Swiss dulcimer player and improvisation musician ; he is considered a pioneer and innovator of the game of dulcimer.

Live and act

Tobler, the son of a dairy owner, was given a dulcimer when he was twenty, and he learned how to play it as an autodidact . After secondary school, he attended the preliminary course at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich . He became a rhythm guitarist , then a drummer, and moved to Bern, where he attended the Swiss Jazz School for a year and a half . He worked as a drummer with Hardy Hepp and Max Lässer , and then played dulcimer in Paris as a street musician. There he was discovered by Lionel Rocheman, who organized a folk festival in the Paris Olympia and invited him.

Back in Switzerland, he quickly became known in bands that have proven to be trendsetting between jazz and world music. After Toblermit , that was in particular the group Appenzeller Space Schöttl, founded with bassist Ficht Tanner . The new original Appenzeller string music project followed in the new millennium with four strings .

Tobler cultivates his own musical language between intuitive music and Appenzell tradition. He also worked on theater productions, a. a. the Tellspiele in Altdorf UR 2008 with director Volker Hesse . Tobler also performed Swiss dulcimer concerts by Paul Huber and Fabian Müller . In 2017 he was awarded a Swiss music prize by the Federal Office for Culture (BAK) .

Discographic notes

  • Toni Vescoli , Töbi Tobler, Bruno Brandenberger: Tame (Image 1979)
  • Töbi Tobler, Ficht Tanner: Appenzeller Space Schöttl (Zytglogge 1982)
  • Töbi Tobler, Ficht Tanner, Walter Keller-Walter: Love Is a Hard Work (Liverpool Record 1984)
  • Appenzeller Space Schöttl: Autumn Improvisations (1995)
  • The New Original Appenzeller String Music Project (Music Scene Switzerland 2002, with Arnold Alder, Paul Giger , Fabian Müller, Francisco Obieta )
  • Solos (2003)
  • Tell music (Musiques Suisses, 2008)
  • Habsat (with Christian Sutter, 2015)

literature

  • Dieter Ringli and Johannes Rühl: The New Folk Music. Seventeen portraits and a search for clues in Switzerland. Chronos, Zurich 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Swiss Music Prize (2017 winner)
personal data
SURNAME Tobler, Tobi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peter, Jürg (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss dulcimer player and improvisation musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschlikon