Bruno Spoerri

Bruno Alexander Spoerri (born 16 August 1935) is a Swiss jazz and electronics musician.

Contents

• Bruno spoerri in interview swiss music prize 2015
• Bruno spoerri on the way
• Discography
• Awards
• References

Born in Zurich, he studied applied psychology in Basel and Zurich. 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. He experimented with electrified saxophone and published the album Voice of Taurus in 1978.

Discography

Jazz-Rock Experience (Deram, 1970)

Glückskugel (Finders Keepers Records, 1971–1980)

Container (1976)

Voice of Taurus (Gold Records/Inzec 1978)

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 Price for Saxophone and Band

Jazz Festival Düsseldorf (Deutschland) 1956: Second Price for Alto Saxophone with Modern Jazz Group Freiburg

Jazz Festival Zürich 1958: First Price for Bigband

International Advertising Film Festival Cannes 1965: First Price 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 Price in Ars Electronica Linz for Demonstration of Lyricon

1992 Featured Guest Composer bei der International Computer Music Conference San José