Werner Tian Fischer

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Werner Tian Fischer at the Ordos Music Carnival (July 2014)

Werner Tian Fischer (* 1962 in Näfels as Werner Fischer ) is a Swiss musician , music teacher and historian .

biography

Fischer developed his guitar playing at the Hot Club de Jazz in Lisbon, at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern and at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He also studied history in connection with English at the University of Zurich and graduated with a licentiate from Roger Sablonier in 1993 .

With Tom Etter ( Züri West ) he founded the internationally successful folk-pop group Starfish in the 1990s . As a live and studio musician, he works with well-known representatives of the Swiss jazz scene, e. B. with the saxophonists Bruno Spoerri and Jürg Wickihalder , or with international greats like Sophie Dunér, Alain Apaloo or Alexandre Côté. His Fischer-Wickihalder Jazz Coalition toured China in the summer of 2004. In 2007 he organized the Swiss tour of the Sam Trümpy Memorial Jazz Coalition , a transatlantic octet. He also forms the guitar duo All Standard Guitars together with Michael Giger . He has published his own compositions (with lyrics by Jan Krohn ) on several albums together with his international jazz group Travelogue .

Since 2004 he has lived and worked as a musician, music teacher and journalist in Lucerne and Beijing . In Beijing he was a member of the Big John Blues Band , the house band of the legendary CD Blues Café, from 2010 to 2011 , and taught at the Beijing Midi School of Music . For a decade he has been touring China regularly with well-known European or Chinese musicians such as Zhang Ling , the former bassist Cui Jians : Tour of Heilongjiang & Beijing 2004, Summer Olympics 2008 in Beijing (with Mya Audrey), MIDI festivals in Shanghai and Beijing 2011 (with Mya Audrey), Travelogue tours to Beijing in autumn 2011 and spring 2012, Beijing International Blues Festivals 2011, 2012, 2013 (with Shun Kikuta ) & 2014, Grammy All Stars in Chengdu 2013, Ordos World Music Carnival ( Inner Mongolia ) & Xixia Music Festivals in Zhongwei & Yinchuan ( Ningxia ) 2014 (with the Big John Blues Band).

He is part of Zhang Lings International CD Blues Band , which has Chinese and international stars like Song Zhuying , Tan Jing , Lang Lang , Diane Schuur , Patti Austin , Yolanda Adams , Jody Watley , Shawn Colvin , Rodney Crowell , Richard Marx , Leo Sayer & Michael Bolton accompanied at their concerts in China.

Jody Watley @ 2013 Night of Fortune Grammy Superstars, Chengdu
Lang Lang @ 2013 Night of Fortune Grammy Superstars, Chengdu

He has published two books on Swiss history and written several papers on the history of jazz in Switzerland. He has also published Chinese Soul , a pop novel about his experiences in China.

Discographic notes

  • Fishberger's Fancy , CD PBR Jazz , 2019 (with Fridolin Berger and Denise Steinegger)
  • Tigerbalsam , CD Elch Musical Industries, 2019 (with Estella Benedetti and Michael Giger. Lyrics by Jan Krohn ).
  • Travelogue: Foreclosure - Live At The Kunsthaus , CD Elch Musical Industries, 2018 (with Jürg Wickihalder, Roberto Domeniconi, Fredi Meli, Gabriel Schiltknecht).
  • Travelogue featuring Coco Rouzier: The Light Is On , CD PBR Jazz , 2016 (with Jürg Wickihalder, Roberto Domeniconi, Fredi Meli, Gabriel Schiltknecht).
  • Werner Fischer's Travelogue: Chinese Soul , CD Altrisuoni , 2011 (with Sophie Dunér, Jürg Wickihalder, Nesin Howhannesjian, Gabriel Schiltknecht).
  • The Sam Trümpy Memorial Jazz Coalition featuring Jürg Wickihalder , CD Altrisuoni, 2009.
  • All Standard Guitars , CD Altrisuoni, 2009 (with Michael Giger and Estella Benedetti).
  • The Bouncing Bits: Groove Ya! , CD Elch Musical Industries, 2007 (with Thom Grüninger, Fridel Berger, Eamonn O'Malley).
  • Standard Jazz Trio: Panda's Delight! , CD Elch Musical Industries, 2005 (with Gabriel Schiltknecht, Fridel Berger),
  • Werner Fischer's B Coalition: Eastbound , CD Elch Musical Industries, 2003 (with Adam White, Sarina Suno, Hiroyuki Takubo, Nesin Yaldiz, Adolfo Herrera).
  • Jazz Coalition: Minor League , CD Elch Musical Industries, 2001 (with Sam Trümpy , Werner Neumann, Fridolin Berger, Fredy Bühler ).
  • Starfish: Slamming the Door , CD SoundService, 1997.
  • Starfish: In Love , CD SAVA / SoundService, 1995.

Fonts

  • Jazz in Glarus - An overview of Glarus jazz history. Verlag der Südostschweiz, Glarus 2019.
  • ed. with Fredy Bühler-Zimmermann: Glarus Jazz Discography. Verlag der Südostschweiz, Glarus 2019.
  • Chinese Soul - a Pop Novella. Verlag der Südostschweiz, Glarus 2011.
  • Jazz in the Glarus region. In: Yearbook of the Historical Association of the Canton of Glarus. Vol. 86 (2006), pp. 7-138.
  • From jazz cellar to bohemia - the pioneering phase of jazz in Glarus at the end of the 1950s. In: Bruno Spoerri (Ed.): Jazz in Switzerland. Chronos, Zurich 2005, pp. 226–232.
  • Saxophone. Jazz fever in Glarus (around 1930). In: Christoph H. Brunner: Glarner history in stories. Baeschlin, Glarus 2004, p. 414 f.
  • ed. with Peter Niederhäuser: From "War of Freedom" to historical myth. 500 years of the Swiss or Swabian War. Chronos, Zurich 2000.
  • ed. with Walter Leimgruber : Golden Years. On the history of Switzerland since 1945. Chronos, Zurich 1999.
  • Shaping society. People with people. In: Walter Leimgruber, Peter Pfrunder (Ed.): History is movement. Forum of Swiss History. Swiss National Museum, Zurich 1995, pp. 54–81.

Awards

  • 2001–03: Dean's List of Berklee College of Music, Boston, USA
  • 2002: Soloist work year of the Lucerne Dienemann Foundation
  • Platinum for the CD "Ohrewürm II"

Lexigraphic entries

  • Bruno Spoerri (Hrsg.): Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Jazz CD supplement to: Bruno Spoerri (Hrsg.): Jazz in Switzerland. History and stories. Chronos, Zurich 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://travelogue.ch/
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Werner Tian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Werner (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss musician, music teacher and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Näfels