Pictures Angel Sanchez Mountains are not a stony ground for culture as sim4, a young Jazz quartet founded in 2006 in Central Switzerland, are proving. Bandleader Christian Simmen (trumpet, flugelhorn), Tino Horat (piano) and Christoph Gautschi (drums) were born in Uri, Peter Grossweiler (string bass) in Lucerne. All four musicians have studied at the Jazz-School in Lucerne. Sounds The musical range of sim4 reaches far beyond the impressive mountains of Central Switzerland. Their compositions – written by Christian Simmen during his stay in Australia (Melbourne and Sidney) in the summer of 2005 – cover a wide spectrum in the realm of Jazz. The quartet plays in various stiles such as Funk, Swing, Blues, Ballads, or Bossa Nova. Nevertheless, their music always remains unmistakably sim4. History The quartet’s first CD is called “Faked bacon”, recorded in June 2006 at the studio Gabrielrecordings (Switzerland).
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Pictures Angel Sanchez Mountains are not a stony ground for culture as sim4, a young Jazz quartet founded in 2006 in Central Switzerland, are proving. Bandleader Christian Simmen (trumpet, flugelhorn), Tino Horat (piano) and Christoph Gautschi (drums) were born in Uri, Peter Grossweiler (string bass) in Lucerne. All four musicians have studied at the Jazz-School in Lucerne.
Sounds
The musical range of sim4 reaches far beyond the impressive mountains of Central Switzerland. Their compositions – written by Christian Simmen during his stay in Australia (Melbourne and Sidney) in the summer of 2005 – cover a wide spectrum in the realm of Jazz. The quartet plays in various stiles such as Funk, Swing, Blues, Ballads, or Bossa Nova. Nevertheless, their music always remains unmistakably sim4.
History
The quartet’s first CD is called “Faked bacon”, recorded in June 2006 at the studio Gabrielrecordings (Switzerland).
Band CHRISTIAN SIMMEN (trumpet, flugelhorn, composition) Christian Simmen grew up in Gurtnellen (UR), where he played in the Brass Band.
In 1993, he began his studies at the general departement of the Jazz School Lucerne. He completed five semesters (term 2-6) and decided to take up a career as professional musician. He graduated at the Jazz School Lucerne with the teachers diploma in 2001. He took lessons with Peter Schärli, Lars Lindvall, Stefan Geiser, Lukas Merki, John Voirol and Nathanael Su.
During his stay in Australia in July 2005, he took lessons with trumpet player Phil Slater, a widely renowned musician in Australia. Christian Simmen already took part in various projects (Blue Flame Big Band, Brass Band Uri, Intercity Jazz Orchestra, Jazzchor Uri, Jazzschule Luzern Big Band, POL, Radio Osaka, Tino Horat Sextett, Uricanta, Young Wind Band) and bands (Boy Group, drumpet, Funky Monks, Green Card, Gringos de la noche, HorchXtra Big Band, Intune, Schorsch Maroni Blues Band, Stadtmusik Zürich Big Band). He is actually playing with URBrass www.urbrass.ch,Stinky Miller www.stinkymiller.ch Pearljazz Big Band www.pearljazzbigband.ch,sim4 www.sim4.ch and HorchXtra Big Band. Tino Horat ( piano )
Tino Horat was born on June 5th, 1980 in Altdorf/UR. He started playing piano at the age of 7 and founded his first band with 14. He was influenced by his classical piano lessons (with composers such as Chopin and Beethoven) as well as by an Acid-Jazz-Combo, a Rock/Pop Band and a Punk Band (featuring Tino Horat as Guitar Player).
After his Matura, he took up his studies of classical piano at the Conservatory of Lucerne (Teacher: Grazia Wending). He graduated with the teachers diploma in 2004. After the graduation, he went to France for six months, where he intensified his occupation with Jazz. As a result of his stay in France, he began a new study course at the conservatory of Lucerne at the Jazz Departement in october 2005. Tino Horat has conducted the Gospelchor Uri (from 2000-2004), and is currently leading the Intercity Jazz Orchestra Lucerne (since 2003). The choir “Vocal Total” Lucerne and the Salsa Band “Gringos de la noche” are among his various musical engagements as well as his being the pianist and keyboard player in the musicals “Kiss me, Kate” (2004, KKL Lucerne), “Jonas and Madeleine” (2205/2006, KKL, Lucerne) and “Some like it hot” (2006, Brunnen).
Peter Gossweiler (double bass/string bass)
Peter Gossweiler (*April 26th, 1975) completed his studies of double bass at the Jazz School Lucerne in 2000. (His teachers were Heiri Känzig, Bobby Burri and Norbert Pfammater) He is a widely known double bassist for Bands, orchestras and musical projects for various musical stiles. He is playing in Switzerland and abroad. At the moment he is playing with the Fanny Anderegg Quartet, kaama, swingstrings, sim4, écoute-moi, Another fine mess, Hösli and Ricardo, and chamber soloists Lucerne.
Actual CD’s: -„écoute-moi“: l’ombre de ton chien (2004) -„Hösli und Ricardo“: Blau (2001), In guter Gesellschaft (2005) -„kaama“: romance (2003), secrets (2005) -„Fanny Anderegg Quartet“: la figlia dal vent (2004), I’m bird (2006) -„Science fair“: welcome to the science fair (2005) -„kretek“: kretek (2006) -„sim4“: faked bacon (2006) Christoph Gautschi (drums)
Christoph Gautschi (*2/2/1973) studied drums at the conservatory of Lucerne (Departement Jazz) with Marc Halbheer, Norbert Pfammater and Fabian Kuratli. After his graduation, Christoph Gautschi spent 18 months in Cuba (during various stays) and took lessons in Afro-Cuban percussion and Drums by renowned teachers such as Enrique Plà (Irakere), Sergio Luis Cardoso (Sintesis), Erian Sariol (Bamboleo), Terry Rodolfo Valdéz (Emiliano Salvador). He also played with various unknown Rumberos in the streets of Habana. Actual bands and projects are: - sim4 - Salsa CD with compositons by José Angel Cerulia Sanchez Various CD’s by Squawk, InTune, Kap, drumpet
