Biography

Peter Schärli, born in 1955 in Schötz, Lucerne Canton, Switzerland
trumpeter / composer / bandleader

• Tour with the "Peter Schärli Trio featuring Ithamara Koorax" in February 2010 in Germany and Switzerland, recordings at Radio Studio Zürich for the new CD "O Grande Amor"
• Concerts with the "Peter Schärli Trio featuring Glenn Ferris" in March 2010 in Switzerland and at the Nova Gallery Prague Castle in Prague
• Klangerlebnis (Klaus Merz - Texte, Peter Schärli - comp/tp, Lauren Newton - voc, Sylwia Zytynska - perc, Hans Koch - bcl, Jean-Jacques Pedretti - tb, Marco Käppeli und Christian Wolfarth an den Kirchenglocken) in der Katholischen Kirche Aarau
• Concerts with Roberto Domeniconi>>Vierklang (Roberto Domeniconi - p, Christian Weber - b, Norbert Pfammatter - dr, Peter Schärli - tp) in Switzerland

• Presentation of the new program "Complete Lulu" with the "Peter Schärli Special Sextet featuring Glenn Ferris, Guest Barbara Berger" at the "Jazzfestival Schaffhausen" in Mai 2009 and tour in October/November 2009 at the festival "European Jazz made in: Switzerland" in Munich and other venues in Germany and Switzerland. Recordings at the Radio Studio Zurich for the new CD "Complete Lulu" 
• Concerts with the "Peter Schärli Trio featuring Glenn Ferris" at the AVO-Session Basel and elsewhere
• Concerts with the "Peter Schärli Trio featuring Ithamara Koorax" in March/April in Switzerland, Germany and the Czech republic
• Performance of the composition "Entschleunigung I - Ein Klangerlebnis in der Natur" by Peter Schärli at "Tempelhof" in Uffikon (6 students of the "Hochschule Luzern - Musik", Hans Koch - bcl)
• Appearance with Christian Weber at the "Jazzfestival Willisau" (Christian Weber - b, Peter Schärli - tp)
• Concerts with Roberto Domeniconi>>Vierklang (Roberto Domeniconi - p, Christian Weber - b, Norbert Pfammatter - dr, Peter Schärli - tp)
• Concerts with Béatrice Graf (Béatrice Graf - d, Peter Schärli - tp)

• Concerts with the "Peter Schärli Special Sextet featuring Glenn Ferris" at the "BeJazz Winterfestival 2008" and elsewhere. The drummer Norbert Pfammatter replaces Béatrice Graf.
• Tour with the "Peter Schärli Trio featuring Ithamara Koorax" in April 2008 in Switzerland, for example at the Stanser Musiktage
• Appearance with the "Koch-Pfammatter-Schärli" trio (Hans Koch - bcl, Norbert Pfammatter - dr, Peter Schärli - tp) at bau4, Altbüron
• Concerts with Tommy Meier "Root Down" at the Festival Jazz à Mulhouse, Swiss Beach Festival (Euro 08) Vienna, the Jazz Festival Willisau, the Festival Music Unlimited Wels and elsewhere (Tommy Meier - Leitung/comp/bcl/ts, Marco von Orelli - tp, Peter Schärli - tp, Hans Annliker - tb, Andy Marty - tb, Co Streiff - as, Peter Landis - bs, Stephan Thelen - g, Irène Schweizer - p, Hans-Peter Pfammatter - kb, Herbert Kramis - b, Jan Schlegel- eb, Fredi Flückiger - dr, Marco Käppeli - dr, Chris Jäger - perc, Trixa Arnold - turntables)
• Concerts at Bar 59, Lucerne "Soul Jazz Night" (Achim Escher - as, Ricardo Regidor - p, André Pousaz - b, Fredy Studer - dr, Peter Schärli - tp)
• Appearance as a guest soloist with the Brass-Band Schötz
• Appearance at the reservoir Schönegg, Hergiswil NW "Raumklang - Klangerlebnis" (Lauren Newton - voc, Jean-Jacques Pedretti - tb, Peter Schärli - tp)

• The "Peter Schärli Special Sextet featuring Glenn Ferris" tours in Germany and Switzerland, performing at "unerhört! - Ein Zürcher Jazzfestival" and other venues
• Appearance with the Swiss composer Daniel Ott at the "Musiktage Hitzacker", countryside concert at sunrise with improvisations inspired by pictures of the planet earth
• Tour with "erb_gut" featuring Peter Schärli (Christoph Erb - ts, Peter Schärli - tp, Markus Stalder - g, Julian Sartorius - dr, André Pousaz - b) appearances in Switzerland at "Suisse Diagonales Jazz 07" and the "Jazzfestival Schaffhausen"
• Concerts with Roberto Domeniconi's "Vierklang" (Roberto Domeniconi - p, Peter Schärli - tp, Christan Weber - b, Norbert Pfammatter - dr)
• Concerts with Tommy Meier "Root Down" at the "Taktlos Festival Bern" and elsewhere
• Concerts with the "Orkester Ben Jeger" (Shirley Anne Hofmann - euph/vtb/voc/acc, Peter Schärli - tp, Michael Frey - tuba, Fredi Flückiger - dr, Ben Jeger - acc)
• Representative of the Swiss Schools of Jazz at the "17th Annual Jazz Meeting I.A.S.J." (International Association of Schools of Jazz)
• Composition and musical concept for the "Festakt des Eidgenössischen Schwing- und Älplerfestes" in Aarau
• Composition for the church bells of the Reformed Church in Kölliken and the Musical Society of Kölliken (Peter Schärli and Marco Käppeli are the soloists at the performance)
• Appearance as a soloist at "KKL-Uffikon" (art and culture down on the farm)

• The "Peter Schärli Special Sextet featuring Glenn Ferris" tours in Austria and Switzerland, playing at the "Swiss Kiss Jazz Festival" in Vienna as well as at other venues
• Tour "A Tribute to Dom Um Romão" with the "Peter Schärli Trio featuring Ithamara Koorax" in the Czech republic and Switzerland (Ithamara Koorax - voc, Thomas Dürst - b, Markus Stalder - g, Peter Schärli - tp)
• Performance of the play "Die Schlacht" based on the story "Die Schlacht bei Sempach" by Robert Walser; this explosive oratorio combines dialogue, dance and acting (concept and composition by Peter Schärli)
• Tour with "erb_gut" featuring Peter Schärli in Bolivia, Kolumbia, the Czech republic, Poland, Germany and Switzerland, e. g. at the Jazz Festivals in Warsaw, La Paz, Bogotá, Barranquilla (Christoph Erb - ts, Peter Schärli - tp, Markus Stalder - g, Julian Sartorius - dr, André Pousaz - b)
• Concerts with the "Orkester Ben Jeger" (Shirley Anne Hofmann - euph/vtb/voc/acc, Peter Schärli - tp, Michael Frey - tuba, Fredi Flückiger - dr, Ben Jeger - acc, Teresa Larraga Burgos - mezzosopran)
• Concerts with Roberto Domeniconi's "Vierklang" (Roberto Domeniconi - p, Peter Schärli - tp, Hämi Hämmerli - b, Norbert Pfammatter - dr)
• Concerts with Tommy Meier "Root Down" at "unerhört! - Ein Zürcher Jazz Festival" and other venues
• Appearance as a soloist with the Swiss composer Daniel Ott in Berlin and elsewhere (the Berlin performance was a promenade concert in the "Hamburger Bahnhof" at the exhibit of the artist Walter Benjamin)

• Performance of the play "Die Schlacht", based on the story "Die Schlacht bei Sempach" by Robert Walser; this explosive oratorio combines dialogue, dance and acting (concept and composition by Peter Schärli)
• Appearances with the "Peter Schärli Trio" (Thomas Dürst - b, Markus Stalder - g, Peter Schärli - tp)
• Concert with the "Donat Fisch Quartett" (Donat Fisch - ts/as, Peter Schärli - tp, Thomas Dürst - b, Norbert Pfammatter - dr)
• Concerts with "erb_gut" featuring Peter Schärli in Germany and Switzerland (Christoph Erb - ts, Peter Schärli - tp, Markus Stalder - g, Julian Dillier - dr, Ralph Sonderegger - b), e. g. at the "Jazz Festival Saarbrücken"; first prize winner of the "ZKB" jazz competition 2005 sponsored by the Bank of the Canton of Zurich
• Recordings for the new CD "ARIA" und concerts with the "Orkester Ben Jeger" (Shirley Anne Hofmann - euph/vtb/voc/acc, Peter Schärli - tp, Michael Frey - tuba, Fredi Flückiger - dr, Ben Jeger - acc, Teresa Larraga Burgos - mezzosopran)
• Concerts with Tommy Meier "Root Down" at many venues, including "unerhört! - Ein Zürcher Jazz Festival", "uncool"-Festival in Poschiavo, Jazzfestival "onze plus" in Lausanne (Tommy Meier - bandleader/composer/bcl/ts, Peter Schärli - tp, Hans Annliker - tb, Jürg Wickihalder - ss, Co Streif - as, Hans Koch - bcl, Peter Landis - bs, Stephan Thelen - g, Irène Schweizer - p, Chris Wiesendanger - keyb, Christian Weber - b, Jan Schlegel - eb, Fredi Flückiger - dr, Marco Käppeli - dr, Chris Jäger - perc, Trixa Arnold - turntables)
• Appearance with the Swiss composer Daniel Ott, Görlitz/Zgorzelec (Germany/Poland) and elsewhere
• Composer of the program 2005 for "Circus Monti" (with Lars Lindvall)
• "Love and Passion - Jazz and Billie Holiday", directed by Martha Zürcher, a play for two actors (Doris Hett, Simon Ledergerber) and three musicians (Peter Schärli - tp, Peter Gossweiler - b, Serge Businger - p)
• Works delivering newspapers (paper boy)

• The "Peter Schärli Special Sextet featuring Glenn Ferris" tours in Belgium and Switzerland and records their new CD "Hot Peace" (enja CD 9171 2) at "Radio Studio Zürich"
• Appearances with the "Peter Schärli Trio" (Thomas Dürst - b, Markus Stalder - g, Peter Schärli - tp)
• Concerts with the "Donat Fisch Quartett" (Donat Fisch - ts/as, Peter Schärli - tp, Thomas Dürst - b, Norbert Pfammatter - dr)
• Concerts with "erb_gut" featuring Peter Schärli (Christoph Erb - ts, Peter Schärli - tp, Markus Stalder - g, Julian Dillier - dr, Ralph Sonderegger - b)
• Appearance with the Swiss composer Daniel Ott at the Museum of Transport in Lucerne and other venues
• Concerts with "Mais" (Charlotte Hug - va, Bruno Amstad - voc, Peter Schärli - tp)
• Tour with the "Orkester Ben Jeger" (Shirley Anne Hofmann - euph/vtb/voc/acc, Peter Schärli - tp, Michael Frey - tuba, Fredi Flückiger - dr, Ben Jeger - acc, Teresa Larraga Burgos - mezzosopran)
• Tour with the dance extravaganza "Danza!" performed by the "Compagnia Vitale & Bandella Ben Jeger"
• Tour and recordings with Radio Osaka (Andi Czech - voc, Stephan Thelen - g, Peter Schärli - tp, Mario Scarton - keyb, Christian Kuntner - b, Benno Kaiser - dr)