Bruno Spoerri
Illustration — Bruno Spoerri Bruno Alexander Spoerri (born 16 August 1935) is a Swiss jazz and electronics musician. He played the saxophone as a student and toured with the Modern Jazz Group Freiburg in Germany and Switzerland. In the early 1960s, he worked as a psychologist and career counsellor.
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- 1935 · Zurich.
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Occupation
- composer · saxophonist · record producer · musician
- Fields
- jazz · big band music
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Illustration — Bruno Spoerri Bruno Alexander Spoerri (born 16 August 1935) is a Swiss jazz and electronics musician. He played the saxophone as a student and toured with the Modern Jazz Group Freiburg in Germany and Switzerland. In the early 1960s, he worked as a psychologist and career counsellor.
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He experimented with an electrified saxophone and published the album Voice of Taurus in 1978.
• Jazz-Rock Experience (Deram, 1970) • Glückskugel (Finders Keepers Records, 1971–1980) • Container (1976) • Voice of Taurus (Gold Records/Inzec, 1978) • Toy Planet with Irmin Schmidt (Spoon Records, 1981) • AX+BY+CZ+D=0 (1983) • Zürich Tenors (FFO 1983, with Ernst Gerber, Fernando Fantini, Richard Lipiec, Umberto Foletti, Rolf Cizmek, Hans Brunner) • Albert Mangelsdorff - Bruno Spoerri - Christy Doran - Reto Weber: Shake, Shuttle and Blow (Enja, 1999)
Awards
• Jazz Festival Zürich 1954: First Prize for Saxophone and Band • Jazz Festival Düsseldorf (Deutschland) 1956: Second Prize for Alto Saxophone with Modern Jazz Group Freiburg • Jazz Festival Zürich 1958: First Prize for Bigband • International Advertising Film Festival Cannes 1965: First Prize for TV-Spot Bic (Produktion Televico) • American TV and Radio Commercials Festival 1971: Clio for TV-Spot Riri • 1973 Filmpreis der Stadt Zürich • 1979 First prize in Ars Electronica Linz for Demonstration of Lyricon • 1992 Featured Guest Composer bei der International Computer Music Conference San José • Various awards for advertising films by the Art Directors’ Club Switzerland • Art Prize 2004 of the municipality of Zollikon (Hintermeister-Gyger Foundation) • Swiss Jazz Award 2017 • Sankt Elektronika Lifetime Achievement Award, St. Gallen
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- 1.Bruno Spoerri website, "Biographie von Bruno Spoerri", computerjazz.ch, accessed 8 July 2011.
- 2.VADIAN. NET AG, St Gallen. Erster sankt elektronika Lifetime Achievement Award für Bruno Spoerri. www.st.gallen.im.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Spoerri, Bruno. Jazz in der Schweiz. Geschichte und Geschichten. Biografisches Lexikon des Schweizer Jazz. Chronos-Verlag. 2005. 3-0340-0739-6.
- Widerøe, Arild. Jazz in der Schweiz. Geschichte und Geschichten. Chronos Verlag. 2005. 3-0340-0739-6.
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