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Peter Schärli, born in 1955 in Schötz (LU) - Trumpeter / composer / bandleader

1962 - 1967

Visit to primary school in Schötz, first attempts with the trumpet (Youth Music Schötz)

1967 - 1969

High school in Engelberg, trumpet lessons with Mr. Bürgi from the Lucerne Conservatory

1969 - 1971

Willisau Cantonal School, member of the Eintracht Music Society (Schötz), trumpet lessons with Walter Pante, Schötz and André Winkler (Luzern)

1971 - 1974

Apprenticeship as a commercial employee (industry), lessons at the Jazz School Lucerne, conducting courses with Albert Benz, Lucerne

1974 - 1977

commercial employee in a machine factory, first public appearances with the blues band "Exodus" as a singer, pianist and trumpeter

1977

Admission to the vocational school of the SWISS JAZZ SCHOOL BERN, graduating with a diploma in 1981

1978

Birth of daughter Franziska

1978 - 2004

Occasional jobs as an unskilled worker in a window factory, in machine factories, as a forest worker, in a graphic studio and now and then as a newspaper contractor

1980

Birth of son Samuel

1981 - 2020

Lecturer/professor for trumpet at Hochschule Luzern - Musik, formerly Jazz Schule Luzern

1982

Birth of daughter Julia

1992 - 2002

Member of the executive committee and board of Hochschule Luzern - Musik

2022
  • Concerts with Peter Schäril Trio featuring Glenn Ferris
  • Concerts with Peter Schärli Trio (Mareille Merck g / Hans Peter Pfammatter p, Thomas Dürst b, Peter Schärli tp)
  • Concerts with Peter Schärli:“Don’t Change Your Hair For Me”
  • Solidarity concert for G. Pechet Reber in Biel with Sylwia Zytynska vib, Ben Jeger acc, Hans Koch bcl, Roland Philipp ts, Peter Schärli tp
  • concert with Quintessenz  Peter Schärli tp, Donat Fisch reeds, Hans Feigenwinter p, Wolfgang Zwiauer b, Norbert Pfammatter dr
  • Concerts with Schärli & Zytynska “duoplus” Lauren Newton, Valeria Zangger, Jonas Kocher
  • Concerts with Peter Schärli Big Trio featuring Sandy Patton and Glenn Ferris
  • CD baptism in Olten with Peter Schärli double vision, homage to Umberto Arlati and Peter Schmidlin, Lars Lindvall and Peter Schärli tps, Vince Benedetti p, Hämi Hämmerli b, Elmar Frey dr)
  • Tour with the Fischermanns Orchestra (Italy, Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia, Hungary, Austria and Germany)
2021
  • Until April 2021, many performances were canceled due to the pandemic. Smaller events were allowed to take place again from April.
  • Schärli & Zytynska “duoplus” Co Streiff, Saadet Türköz, Dominique Girod, Hans Koch, Klaus Merz; Jean Jacques Pedretti
  • Appearances with the Peter Schärli Trio (Mareille Merck g, Thomas Dürst b, Peter Schärli tp) at the five-day opening festival of the Alte Reithalle in Aarau (Reitpalast dance hall)
  • Peter Schärli CD release tour (2nd part) At least three concerts could be rescheduled.
  • concert with Schärli-Feigenwinter-Zwiauer-Pfammatter in Konservi, Seon
  • Concerts with Peter Schärli Big Trio featuring Sandy Patton and Glenn Ferris
2020
  • Concerts with Peter Schärli “Peace Now” CD release tour (part 1)
  • Appear with “Der Bummler”
  • Concerts with Peter Schärli: “Don’t Change Your Hair For Me”
  • Concerts and recordings for the CD “Give” with the Peter Schärli Trio featuring Glenn Ferris
  • The plague came in March. Many events have been canceled: “Der Bummler”, Peter Schärli “Peace Now”,Peter Schärli Big Trio featuring Sandy Patton and Glenn Ferris, Elian Zeitel Frei Project and others
  • From October it was partly possible to play again:
  • Schärli & Zytynska “duoplus” Charlotte Hug, Lauren Newton and Gerry Hemingway
  • Moods Aida Alliman Prize, award ceremony at Moods with Peter Schärli Young Quintet (Elian Zeitel voc, Mareille Merck g, Madlaina Küng b, Samuel Schärli dr, Peter Schärli tp) and Schärli & Zytynska “duoplus” Charlotte Hug
2019
  • Premiere and performances with“Der Bummler” a story from the jazzy hinterland
    Text: Pirmin Bossart, Peter Schärli and Werner Bodinek, director: Ueli Blum, acting: Werner Bodinek, music: Peter Schärli, musicians: Mareille Merck g, Madlaina Küng b, Peter Schärli tp
  • Concerts and recordings with Peter Schärli: “Peace Now!”
  • Concerts with the Peter Schärli Trio (Mareille Merck g or Hans Peter Pfammatter p, Thomas Dürst b, Peter Schärli tp)
  • Concerts with Schärli-Zytynska
  • Concerts with “Die kommende Generation” (Elian Frei voc, Mareille Merck g, Madlaina Küng b, Demian Coca p, Alen Hodzic dr, Peter Schärli tp)
  • Concerts with Peter Schärli: “Don’t Change Your Hair For Me” including at the Simmen Festival in Ettiswil
  • Concerts with Peter Schärli Big Trio featuring Sandy Patton and Glenn Ferris
  • 50 years of the Aargau Board of Trustees, appearance at the big anniversary celebration in the Trafo Hall, Baden
  • Concerts with the Joyful Noise Orchestra in Biel, an improvisation orchestra around the Biel musicians Hans Koch and Martin Schütz
2018
  • Stay in Genoa (Schang Hutter's studio)
  • Concerts with Peter Schärli Big Trio featuring Sandy Patton and Glenn Ferris
  • Concerts with Peter Schärli:“Peace Now!” (Silke Eberhard as, Jean-Jacques Pedretti tb, Christian Weber b, Norbert Pfammatter dr, Peter Schärli tp)
  • Subsequent studio recordings of the concert from the Alpentoen Festival with Peter Schärli:“So auch!” on behalf of the Lucerne University of Music - Music, with Barbara Berger voc, Jean-Jacques Pedretti tb, Peter Schärli tp and students of the Lucerne University of Music - Music
  • Appearances in a duo Pierre Favre including as part of the Cully Jazz Festival
  • Appearances with Schärli-Zytynska
  • Concerts with Peter Schärli Trio featuring Glenn Ferris in Austria and Switzerland.
  • Concerts with Schärli-Moreira-Feigenwinter Highlights: Basel Jazz Festival and
  • Schaffhausen Jazz Festival
  • Concerts with the Joyful Noise Orchestra in Biel 2017
  • Concert at the Alpine Tones Festival Peter Schärli: “So auch!”, with Barbara Berger, Jean-Jacques Pedretti and seven students from the Lucerne University of Music – Music, directed by Peter Schärli
  • Appearance as a guest soloist with the Bern Big Band Take off
  • CD release tour Red Top with Peter Schärli: “Don’t Change Your Hair For Me”
    The highlights were our performances in Bolivia at the 30th Aniversario Bolivia Festijazz 2017<
    in Cochabamba, La Paz, El Alto, Tarija, Santa Cruz and Sucre
  • Film and sound recordings with Pierre Favre for the “kleinste Museum der Welt” in Cully
  • Concerts with the Peter Schärli Trio featuring Glenn Ferris
  • Concerts with Roberto Domeniconi >>Vierklang
2016
  • CD release tour Purge with Peter Schärli Trio featuring Glenn Ferris
    The highlight was our performance at the Willisau Jazz Festival
  • Concerts with Peter Schärli: “Don’t Change Your Hair For Me,”
    We recorded our new album Red Top in the hard studio in Winterthur
  • As a guest trumpeter on the CD et øjeblik the band Jazzinteam, around the singer
    Gitte Deubelbeiss
  • Concerts with the Federlosband by Co Streiff
  • Appearances with the writer Klaus Merz (reading and music)
2015
  • Concerts with Schärli-Moreira-Feigenwinter in Switzerland, the Czech Republic,
  • Brazil and Bolivia
  • Concerts with the Federlosband by Co Streiff, among others, at the Festival International de Jazz de Port-au-Prince (Haiti)
  • Performances with percussionist Sylwia Zytynska / Schärli-Zytynska
  • Appearances with the writer Klaus Merz (reading and music)
  • Concerts with the Peter Schärli Trio featuring Glenn Ferris We have our new album at the BeJazz Winter Festival in Bern and at the Hardstudio in Winterthur, among others“Purge” recorded
2014
  • Appearances with the writer Klaus Merz (Reading and music) - including in the Kunsthaus Aarau
  • Concerts with Sound experience The highlight was our performance artacts Festival in St. Johann im Tirol. At the Gare du Nord, Basel, we recorded our music live and produced a CD at the end of March. Our performance at the KKLB Beromünster near Wetz was also unforgettable.
  • Concert at the Schaffhausen Jazz Festival with Roberto Domeniconi Der Grosse Bär
  • Concerts with the Peter Schärli Trio featuring Glenn Ferris (Austria and Switzerland)
  • Concerts with the Federlosband by Co Streiff
2013
  • Concerts with the Peter Schärli Trio featuring Glenn Ferris
  • Tour with Schärli - Moreira - Feigenwinter, The highlight was the concert at the Jazz Festival Basel
  • Appearances with Sound Experience (Lauren Newton voc, Sylwia Zytynska perc, Jean-Jacques Pedretti tb, Peter Schärli tp)
  • Concerts with Roberto Domeniconi Der Grosse Bär
  • Ton & Tal a sound hike from Airolo to Augst in August
    Festival Rümlingen and Alpine Tones – International Music Festival
  • Appearances with Peter Schärli: “Don’t Change Your Hair For Me” et al. at the Jazz Festival Schaffhausen and jazzin St. Gallen
  • More than 30 concerts with the Federlosband by Co Streiff (Co Streiff reeds, Tommy Meier reeds, Peter Schärli tp, Ben Jeger keyb, Fredi Flükiger dr)
  • Appearances with Die Lufthunde (Ueli Bichsel and Marcel Joller)
2012
  • Concerts with Roberto Domeniconi >>Vierklang
  • Tour with the “Peter Schärli Trio featuring Ithamara Koorax”
  • Presentation of the CD“O Grande Amor” The CDs “Obrigado Dom Um Romão” and “O Grande Amor” were nominated for a Grammy
  • Performances with Roberto Domeniconi Der Grosse Bär including at the Jazz Festival Willisau and recordings for the CD Der Grosse Bär
  • Concerts with the Federlosband“ by Co Streiff
2011
  • The CD Jazz na Hradě (Multisonic 31 0807-2) dated Peter Schärli Quartet (Glenn Ferris tb, Hans Feigenwinter p, Thomas Dürst b, Peter Schärli tp) will be baptized by Václav Klaus, the President of the Czech Republic, at Prague Castle on a major occasion in February.
  • Appearances with the Peter Schärli Special Sextet featuring Glenn Ferris, guest Barbara Berger<
    Presentation of the new CD Complete Lulu (TCB 30602)
  • Klangerlebnis at the vernissage “Ausnahmezustand” in Hergiswil/NW in September
    (Lauren Newton voc, Sylwia Zytynska perc, Christian Wolfarth perc, Hans Koch bcl,
    Jean-Jacques Pedretti tb, Peter Schärli tp)
  • Appear with Joe McPhee, Pierre Favre, Hämi Hämmerli, Peter Schärli
  • Tour with the Peter Schärli Trio featuring Glenn Ferris
  • Presentation of the CD Live at the AVO Session Basel – Switzerland (TCB 30932
2010
  • Tour with the Peter Schärli Trio featuring Ithamara Koorax in February 2010 in Germany and Switzerland, recordings in the Radio Studio Zurich for the new CD O Grande Amor
  • Concerts with the Peter Schärli Quartet (Glenn Ferris, Thomas Dürst b, Hans Feigenwinter p, Peter Schärli tp) in March 2010 in Switzerland and Prague “Jazz na Hradĕ” (Jazz at Prague Castle)
  • Klangerlebnis with Klaus Merz (Peter Schärli comp/tp, Andres Brändli organization, Klaus Merz texts, Franz Szekeres speakers, Lauren Newton voc, Sylwia Zytynska perc, Hans Koch bcl, Jean-Jacques Pedretti tb, Marco Käppeli perc/church bells, Christian Wolfarth - perc/church bells) in the Catholic Church of Aarau and in the Collegiate Church of St. Martin in Sarnen
  • Concerts with Roberto Domeniconi >>Vierklang (Roberto Domeniconi p, Christian Weber b, Norbert Pfammatter dr, Peter Schärli tp) in Switzerland
  • Concerts with musicians from Bolivia at festivals in La Paz, Santa Cruz, Bogotá and Sao Paulo. Guest lecturer at the Souza Lima Conservatory in Sao Paulo
  • 3-month studio stay in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil (Aargau Board of Trustees)
2009
  • Presentation of the new program Complete Lulu with the Peter Schärli Special Sextet featuring Glenn Ferris, guest Barbara Berger at the "Jazzfestival Schaffhausen", in Germany and Switzerland, including at the festival "European Jazz made in: Switzerland", Munich, recordings in the Radio Studio Zurich for the new CD Complete Lulu
  • Concerts with the Peter Schärli Trio featuring Glenn Ferris (Glenn Ferris tb, Thomas Dürst b, Hans-Peter Pfammatter p, Peter Schärli tp)
  • including at the AVO session in Basel
  • 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 in the Tempelhof Uffikon (6 students from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences – music with the soloist Hans Koch bcl)
  • Appear with Schärli-Weber at the Willisau Jazz Festival 2009 (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 Beatrice Graf (Béatrice Graf d, Peter Schärli tp)
2008
  • Concerts with the Peter Schärli Special Sextet featuring Glenn Ferris including at the BeJazz Winter Festival 2008.
    Tour with the Peter Schärli Trio featuring Ithamara Koorax   in Switzerland, including at the Stanser Musiktage (Ithamara Koorax voc, Thomas Dürst b, Hans-Peter Pfammatter p, Peter Schärli tp)
  • Performances with the trio Koch-Pfammatter-Schärli (Hans Koch bcl, Norbert Pfammatter dr, Peter Schärli tp)
  • Concerts with Tommy Meier Root Dow including the Festival Jazz à Mulhouse, Swiss Beach Festival Vienna, Jazz Festival Willisau, Festival Music Unlimited Wels (Tommy Meier management/comp/bcl/ts, Marco von Orelli, Peter Schärli tps, 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 in Bar 59 Lucerne Soul Jazz Nights (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
  • Performance in the Schönegg water reservoir, Hergiswil NW with Klangerlebnis (Lauren Newton voc, Jean-Jacques Pedretti tb, Peter Schärli -p)
2007
  • Tour with the Peter Schärli Special Sextet featuring Glenn Ferris in Germany and Switzerland, among others. at "Unerhört! - A Zurich Jazz Festival"
  • Appearances with the Peter Schärli Trio (Markus Stalder g, Thomas Dürst b, Peter Schärli tp)
  • Performances with the Swiss composer Daniel Ott on the Hitzacker Music Days, a landscape concert at sunrise on and on the Elbe and improvisations on images from planet Earth
  • Tour with erb_gut featuring Peter Schärli (Christoph Erb ts, Peter Schärli tp, Markus Stalder g, Julian Sartorius dr, André Pousaz b) in Switzerland (Suisse Diagonales Jazz 07) and at the Schaffhausen Jazz Festival
  • Concerts with Roberto Domeniconi>>Vierklang (Roberto Domeniconi p, Peter Schärli tp, Christan Weber b, Norbert Pfammatter dr)
  • Concerts with Tommy Meier Root down, among others at the Taktlos Festival Bern
  • Concerts with the Orchestra Ben Jeger (Shirley Anne Hofmann hrn, Peter Schärli tp, Michael Frey tuba, Fredi Flückiger dr, Ben Jeger acc)
  • As a representative of the Swiss jazz schools 17th annual Jazz Meeting I.A.S.J. (International Association of Schools of Jazz)
  • Composition and musical concept for the ceremony Federal Wrestling and Alpine Festival in Aarau
  • Composition with and for the church bells of the Reformed Church of Kölliken
    Musikgesellschaft Kölliken with Marco Käppeli and Peter Schärli as soloists
  • Appearances as a soloist KKL Uffikon
2006
  • Tour with Peter Schärli Special Sextet featuring Glenn Ferris in Austria and Switzerland,
  • including at the Swiss Kiss Jazz Festival in Vienna
  • CD release tour Obrigado.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)
  • Performances of the play Die Schlacht, ein explosives Oratorium, spoken, danced and played, based on the story "Die Schlacht bei Sempach" by Robert Walser, Idea/concept/composition: Peter Schärli
  • Tour with erb_gut featuring Peter Schärli in Bolivia, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany and Switzerland, including at the Warsaw, La Paz, Bogotá and Barranquilla jazz festivals (Christoph Erb ts, Peter Schärli tp, Markus Stalder g, Julian Sartorius dr, Andre Pousaz b)
  • Concerts with the Orchestra Ben Jeger (Shirley Anne Hofmann hrn, Peter Schärli tp, Michael Frey tuba, Fredi Flückiger dr, Ben Jeger acc, Teresa Larraga Burgos voc)
  • Concerts with Roberto Domeniconi>>Vierklang (Roberto Domeniconi p, Peter Schärli tp, Hämi Hämmerli b, Norbert Pfammatter dr)
  • Concerts with Tommy Meier Root down, among others at the "Unerhört! - A Zurich Jazz Festival"
  • Appearances as a soloist with the Swiss composer Daniel Ott, among others in Berlin (promenade concert in the Hamburger Bahnhof, on the occasion of the exhibition by Walter Benjamin)
2005
  • Performances of the play Die Schlacht, ein explosives Oratorium, spoken, danced and played, based on the story “Die Schlacht bei Sempach” by Robert Walser
    Idea/concept/composition: Peter Schärli
  • Appearances with the Peter Schärli Trio (Thomas Dürst - b, Markus Stalder - g, Peter Schärli - tp)
  • Concert with the Donat Fisch Quartet (Donat Fisch ts/as, Peter Schärli tp, Thomas Dürst b, Norbert Pfammatter dr)
  • Concerts with erb_gut featuring Peter Schärli in Germany and Switzerland, among others.  am Jazz Festival Saarbrücken, (Christoph Erb ts, Peter Schärli tp, Markus Stalder g, Julian Dillier dr, Ralph Sonderegger b), winner of the ZKB Jazz Prize 2005
  • Recordings for the new CD ARIA and concerts with the "Orkester Ben Jeger" (Shirley Anne Hofmann hrn, Peter Schärli tp, Michael Frey tuba, Fredi Flückiger dr, Ben Jeger acc, Teresa Larraga Burgos voc)
  • Concerts with Tommy Meier Root down, among others at the "Unerhört! - A Zurich Jazz Festival", "Uncool" festival in Poschiavo, jazz festival "onze plus" in Lausanne (Tommy Meier management/comp/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 kb, Christian Weber b, Jan Schlegel eb, Fredi Flückiger dr, Marco Käppeli dr, Chris Jäger perc, Trixa Arnold turntables)
  • Performances with the Swiss composer Daniel Ott, among others in Görlitz/Zgorzelec, application for European Capital of Culture
  • Composer for the 2005 program of Circus Monti (with Lars Lindvall)
  • Trumpeter at the play Love and Passion, Jazz and Billie Holiday, for two actors and three musicians, director: Martha Zürcher, actors: Doris Hett and Simon Ledergerber, musicians: Peter Schärli tp, Peter Gossweiler b, Serge Businger p
2004
  • Tour with the Peter Schärli Special Sextet featuring Glenn Ferris in Belgium and Switzerland, recordings in the Radio Studio Zurich for the new CD Hot Peace enja CD 9171-2 (Béatrice Graf dr, Glenn Ferris tb, Donat Fisch ts/as, Hans Feigenwinter p, Thomas Dürst b, Peter Schärli tp) ,
  • 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)
  • Performances with the Swiss composer Daniel Ott, among others in the Verkehrshaus, Lucerne
  • Concerts with Mais (Charlotte Hug br, Bruno Amstad voc, Peter Schärl -p)
  • Tour with the Orchestra Ben Jeger (Shirley Anne Hofmann hrn, Peter Schärli tp, Michael Frey tuba, Fredi Flückiger dr, Ben Jeger acc, Teresa Larraga Burgos voc)
  • Tour with Danza - Compagnia Vitale and Bandelle Ben Jeger (dance show)
  • Touring and recording with Radio Osaka (Andi Czech voc, Stephan Thelen g, Peter Schärli tp, Mario Scarton keyb, Christian Kuntner b, Benno Kaiser dr)
  • Newspaper Contractor
2003
  • Tour with the Peter Schärli - Donat Fisch Quintett in Bolivia and Colombia (Donat Fisch ts/as, Peter Schärli tp, Hans Feigenwinter p, Thomas Dürst b, Norbert Pfammatter dr)
  • Masterclasses at the Conservatory in La Paz (4 weeks)
  • Appearances as a soloist with the La Paz Big Band
  • Tour with Peter Schärli triple vision in Switzerland (Lars Lindvall, Umberto Arlati  Peter Schärli tps, Vince Benedetti p, Hämi Hämmerli b, Peter Schmidlin dr)
  • Concerts with the Donat Fisch Quartett in Germany and Switzerland
  • Concerts and recordings in the Radio Studio Zurich for the CD Radius with erb_gut featuring Peter Schärli (Christoph Erb ts, Peter Schärli tp, Markus Stalder g, Julian Dillier dr, Ralph Sonderegger b)
  • Concerts with Roberto Domeniconi >>Vierklang (Roberto Domeniconi p, Peter Schärli tp, Hämi Hämmerli b, Norbert Pfammatter dr)
  • Appearances as a soloist at performances by the Swiss composer Daniel Ott
  • Appearances with broken dreams (Alexandra Prusa voc, John Wolf Brennan p, Marc Unternährer tuba, Peter Schärli tp)
  • Supervision of students at the University of Lucerne - Music (main course in composition). They compose the music for the program together with Peter Schärli Circus Monti
     
2002
  • Tour with Peter Schärli double vision in Austria and Switzerland (Lars Lindvall, Peter Schärli tps, Vince Benedetti p, Hämi Hämmerli b, Peter Schmidlin dr)
  • Tour with Danza - Compagnia Vitale and Bandella Ben Jeger in France, Germany and Switzerland (including over 20 performances at expo 02), an Alpine dance festival
  • musical consultant and musical concept for the Cantonal Day of the Central Swiss Cantons at expo 02, Einfall Zentralschweiz, directed by Louis Naef
  • Performance as a soloist with the brass band Bürgermusik Lucerne on the Central Switzerland Day of expo 02, (Einfall Zentralschweiz.02)
  • Participation as a soloist in performances of works by the Swiss composer Daniel Ott in Germany, recording the CD sound body sound in the Radio Studio Zurich (MGB CD 6190)
  • Concerts with the Orchestra Ben Jeger at expo 02
  • Tour with the Peter Schärli Special Sextet featuring Glenn Ferris and Tom Varner in Bolivia, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Germany and Switzerland
  • Appearance as a soloist The government and as a soloist with the brass band Bürgermusik Lucerne in the KKL
  • Commissioned composition for the opening of the 4th World Band Festival in Lucerne for 2 trumpets and organ, performed in the Franciscan Church by Heinz della Torre tp, Patrick Ottiger tp, Franz Schaffner org
  • Tour with the Donat Fisch Quartet in Switzerland (Donat Fisch ts/as, Peter Schärli tp, Thomas Dürst b, Norbert Pfammatter dr)
  • Concerts with Rutherford/Pickard/Schärli/Rogers/Marsh (among others at the Festival Jazzessenz in Aarau (Paul Rutherford tb, Simon Pickard ts, Peter Schärli tb, Paul Rogers b, Toni Marsh dr)
2001
  • Tour with Sandy Patton / Peter Schärli no concept (Sandy Patton voc, Peter Schärli tp, Vince Benedetti p, Thomas Dürst b, Peter Schmidlin dr)
  • Tour with the Orchestra Ben Jeger
  • Tour with the Peter Schärli Special Sextet featuring Glenn Ferris and Tom Varner in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic and Switzerland
  • Musik für Austronauten a project by Roberto Domeniconi, recordings in the Radio Studio Zurich (Roberto Domeniconi p, Hämi Hämmerli b, Norbert Pfammatter dr, Peter Schärli tp)
2000
  • Tour with the Orchestra Ben Jeger
  • Concerts with The European Hiding Trio featuring Hans Poppel (Hans Poppel p, G. Pechet Reber dr, Thomas Dürst b, Peter Schärli tp)
  • as soloist of the work klangkörperklang by the Swiss composer Daniel Ott at the Expo 2000 in Hanover, Swiss pavilion
  • Recordings and concerts with the Donat Fisch Quartet (Donat Fisch ts/as, Thomas Dürst b, Norbert Pfammatter dr, Peter Schärli tp) for the CD Mr. Goodman
  • Composition and music concept for the landscape theater Frühlingserwachen by Frank Wedekind in Lenzburg, dialect version: Hansjörg Schneider, production: Louis Naef, Musician: Franziska Baumann voc, Christoph Gantert tp/hrn, Jean-Jacques Pedretti tb, Benoît Viredaz tuba, Ben Jeger acc, Peter Schärli tp
  • Compositions and arrangements for the Circus Monti
  • Composition and music concept for the play Tanz im Glück  by Mark Wetter
1999
  • Recordings with the Peter Schärli Special Sextet featuring Glenn Ferris and Tom Varner at the Radio Studio Zurich for the CD Guilty (enja CD 9129-2) 
  • Tour with Peter Schärli:“Don’t change your hair for me” featuring Willy Kotoun
  • 3-month studio stay in Paris
  • Concerts with The European Hiding Trio featuring Hans Poppel (Hans Poppel p, G. Pechet Reber dr, Thomas Dürst b, Peter Schärli tp)
  • Compositions for the play Sand auf der Zunge by Urs Steiner, Margrit Bischof, Werner Bodinek
     
1998
  • Concerts with Peter Schärli:“Don’t change your hair for me”
  • Tour with the Peter Schärli Special Sextet featuring Glenn Ferris and Tom Varner
  • Concerts in Germany and Switzerland Michel Wintsch & Road Movie featuring Gerry Hemingway (Swiss Music Syndicate Project) with Gerry Hemingway dr, Franziska Baumann fl/voc, Nathalie Saudan from left, Daniela Beltraminelli from left, Peter Schärli tp, Jean-Jacques Pedretti tb, Michel Wintsch p, Jean-Philippe Zwahlen g, Martin Schütz vcl, Lucas Niggli dr, Jean Kéraudren - sound)
  • Concerts with The European Hiding Trio featuring Hans Poppel, recordings in the Radio Studio Zurich (Hans Poppel p, G. Pechet Reber dr, Thomas Dürst b, Peter Schärli tp)
  • Composition and music concept for the landscape theater Tag des Jammers in Stans by Hansjörg Schneider, director: Louis Naef, 25 performances, musician: Barbara Berger voc, Roland von Flüe bcl/ts, Jacques Widmer perc, Hans-Peter Pfammatter keyb/acc, Peter Schärli tp)
  • Composition and music concept for the film Grenzgänge by Edwin Beeler and Louis Naef 
  • Composition for the radio play D'Goldsucher am Napf by Josef Zihlmann, Director: Buschi Luginbühl
  • Composition and music concept for the live sound installation Klingendes Haus (Aargau Board of Trustees)
  • Recordings with the Orchestra Ben Jeger for the CD Idraulica! (Shirley Anne Hofmann hrn/vtb/voc/acc, Ben Jeger acc, Fredi Flückiger dr/perc, Michael Frey tuba, Peter Schärli tp/flh)
  • Composition and music concept for the television documentary Der vergessene Krieg from Edwin Beeler and Louis Naef
1996 - 1997
  • Appearances with the Peter Schärli Special Sextet featuring Glenn Ferris and Tom Varner in Germany, France and Switzerland, highlights: Schaffhausen Jazz Festival 1997 and 10th Jazz Festival “Onze Plus” in Lausanne 
  • Tour with Peter Schärli:“Don’t change your hair for me” featuring Dom Um Romão, in Austria and Switzerland, recording the CD Ballads and Brazil in the Radio Studio Zurich
  • Compositions and arrangements for the Circus Monti
  • Compositions and music concept for the play Münchhausen, directed by Guy Krneta
  • Compositions and music concept for the play Nocturne by Roger Lille in Aarau
    Director: Maja Stolle, musicians: Susanna Andres from left and Benoît Viredaz tuba
  • Protagonist at the 4th CH New Jazz Festival (MGB)
  • Composer and musician at Zirkus-Theater Federlos, tour in Switzerland
  • Appearances with Banda Ben Jeger
  • concert with The European Hiding Trio featuring Hans Poppel (Hans Poppel p, G. Pechet Reber dr, Thomas Dürst b, Peter Schärli tp)
  • Concerts with the Lukas Heuss Quintet in Switzerland (Who is afraid of a Cannonball Flight) 
  • Concerts with the group LouCHe (new Swiss songs)
  • Appearance with tha tEuropean Chaos String Quintet and Guests at the Taktlos Festival Bern with Johannes Bauer tb, Klaus Dickbauer reeds, Macanda McIntyre reeds, Peter Schärli tp, Susanna Andres from l, Karel Boeschoten from l, Karri Koivukoski br, David Gattiker from lo, Beat Schneider from lo
1994 - 1995
  • Concerts in Germany and Switzerland with the Peter Schärli Special Sextet featuring Glenn Ferris and Tom Varner (Béatrice Graf dr, Glenn Ferris tb, Tom Varner frh, Hans Feigenwinter p, Thomas Dürst b, Peter Schärli tp), among others at the Jazz Festival Willisau 1994, recordings in the Radio Studio Zurich for the CD Blues For The Beast (enja 9103-2)
  • Tour with Peter Schärli: “Don’t change your hair for me” Recordings in the Radio Studio Zurich for the CD Ballads(pan extra 510 540)
  • Compositions and music concept in collaboration with Dieter Ammann for the play Elsi, die seltsame Magd by Hansjörg Schneider after Jeremias Gotthelf, production: Louis Naef, on the Ballenberg 1994, musicians: students from the Lucerne Conservatory and the Lucerne Jazz School, CD Elsi, the strange maid (shame1)
  • Composer and musician at Zirkus-Theater Federlos, tour in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Holland
  • Compositions in collaboration with Ben Jeger for the two clowns Knill and Knoll, over 50 appearances at theater festivals in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, musicians: Shirley Anne Hofmann voc/acc/hrn, Hämi Hämmerli b, Tini Hägler perc, Peter Schärli tp
  • Compositions and music concept for the play“Peter Gynt” based on Ibsen by Hansjörg Schneider, production: Louis Naef, 25 performances at the Ballenberg, Musicians: Shirley Anne Hofmann voc/acc/hrn, Ben Jeger acc, Hämi Hämmerli b, Peter Schärli tp
  • Appearances with Out of town (Rick Margitza ts, Hans Feigenwinter p, Thomas Dürst b, Andy Isler dr, Peter Schärli tp)
1992 - 1993
  • Tour with the Peter Schärli Quintet Guest Glenn Ferris in Switzerland
  • Tour with the band Peter Schärli Special Choice II (Cast: Dom Um Romão perc, Burhan Oeçal perc, Fredi Studer dr, David Gattiker clo, Hämi Hämmerli b, Glenn Ferris tb, Roland Philipp ts Peter Schärli tp)
  • Recordings with the band Peter Schärli Special Choice II and additional musicians from Africa (Stella Rambisai Chiweshe, Leonard Ngwenya and Biboul Darouiche), CD“April Works” (Unit Records 4095)
  • Founding of the band Peter Schärli:“Don’t change your hair for me” (Sandy Patton voc, Antonia Giordano g/voc, Thomas Dürst b, Peter Schärli tp), tour in Switzerland and Belarus
  • Tour with the TOBO sextet from Co Streiff in France, Italy, Austria and Switzerland
  • Tour with Ben Jeger's Band Rumors
  • Appearances with Saadet Türköz in a duo
  • Concerts with Organic Voices (Gabriele Hasler voc, John Wolf Brennan p, Peter Schärli tp)
  • Compositions and musical concept for landscape theater Vier Jahreszeiten, text: Heinz Stalder, production: Louis Naef, performances in the Lucerne/Bern area, musicians: among others Burhan Oeçal perc, Ben Jeger hammond/acc, Saadet Türköz voc, Dom Um Romão perc, Hans Kennel Alphorn, David Gattiker clo, Giancarlo Nicolai g, Michael Frey tuba, Peter Schärli tp
  • Compositions and music concept in collaboration with Ben Jeger for the play Katharina Knie by Carl Zuckmayer, edited by Hansjörg Schneider, production: Louis Naef,
    25 performances on the Ballenberg 1993, musicians: Ben Jeger hammond, Benoît Virdedaz tuba, Peter Schärli tp CD Katharina Knie (JS 1)
1988 - 1991
  • Tour with the Peter Schärli Quintet with Glenn Ferris (Thomas Dürst - b, Glenn Ferris - tb, Marco Käppeli - dr, Giancarlo Nicolai - g, Roland Philipp - ts/ss, Peter Schärli - tp), in Germany, France, the former USSR, at the “Jazzyatra Festival” in India and Switzerland, recordings for the CDs Drei Seelen/Three Souls(Creative Records/MIWI 1014) and Tomorrow (enja 7035-2)
  • Concerts with Peter Schärli Special Choice (Urs Blöchlinger reeds, Oliver Magnenat b, Olivier Clerc dr, Peter Schärli tp, from 1989 with Daniel Bourquin instead of Urs Blöchlinger) in Austria and Switzerland, including at the Willisau Jazz Festival in 1988, recordings for the LP Wenn's im Sommer ins Kino schneit (Guest Tom Varner frh) Plainisphare 1267-32
  • Appearances with the Giancarlo Nicolai Guitar Orchestra and Jazz Quintet, in Switzerland and Austria
  • Concerts with  Le Phil's Ocean Park (Roland Philipp reeds, Dieter Ammann ep/tp, Wietn Wito b, Andy Hug dr) in Switzerland, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg
  • Performances with Ben Jeger's Band Rumors
  • Tour with Guanga Jazz Department, in Spain and Switzerland (Roland Philipp reeds, Hans Feigenwinter p, Walter Schmocker b, David Elias dr, Peter Schärli tp)
  • Concerts with The European Hiding Trio in Switzerland (Hans Poppel p, G. Pechet Reber dr, Thomas Dürst b, Peter Schärli tp)
  • Tour with Hank Spit Five in Burkina Faso (G. Pechet Reber dr, Wolfred Zierl reeds, Roland Philipp reeds, Heinz Grobmeier reeds, Peter Schärli tp)
  • Tour with numerous Swiss artists in Namibia and Zimbabwe (Co Streiff, Tommy Meier, Erika Stucky, Al Imfeld, Ueli Bichsel, Marcel Joller, and others)
  • Member of the circus theater Federlos
1984 - 1987
  • Concerts with the Peter Schärli Quintett (Hans Koch reeds, Giancarlo Nicolai g, Thomas Dürst tp, Marco Käppeli dr, Peter Schärli tp, from 1986 Roland Philipp instead of Hans Koch) among others at the Jazz Festival Montreux 1987, release of his first LP Schnipp-Schnapp (hat/ART 2037)
  • Radio and TV recordings for the Kulturplatz program (portrait)
  • Concerts with Peter Schärli Special Choice (Urs Blöchlinger reeds, Oliver Magnenat b, Olivier Clerc dr, Peter Schärli tp)
  • Christy Doran-Peter Schärli Project at the Jazz Festival Willisau 1984 (with Glenn Ferris and Olivier Magnenat, among others)
  • 7 months in the orchestra from Zirkus Roncalli, Germany (1984)
  • Member of the circus theater Federlos
1982 - 1983
  • Concerts with the Peter Schärli Trio (Thomas Dürst, Marco Käppeli, Peter Schärli)
  • Concerts with Kifaru(Urs Blöchlinger as, Daniel Guggenheim ts, Christoph Baumann p, Hämi Hämmerli b, Marco Käppeli dr) and others. at the Baden
  • Concerts with the Andy Harder Unit Big Band (including at the Bern Jazz Festival)
  • Trumpeter in the Orchestra Winter-Zirkus Conelli
  • Appearances with Hazy Osterwald
  • Musician at Theatersürck Romeo und Julia in Willisau, written and directed by Louis Naef
  • Tour with Urs Blöchlingers LEGFEK-Orchester (among others with Lesley Stephenson voc, Pepe Solbach voc, Urs Blöchlinger reeds, Ruedi Häusermann bcl, Hans Kennel tp, Glenn Ferris tb, Hans Koch reeds, Heini Mätzener cl, Beat Blaser reeds, Klaus Grimmer hrn, Jürg Ammann p, Thomas Dürst b , Ueli Müller dr)
     
1978 - 1981
  • Concerts with the Uhuru Quintett (Daniel Guggenheim reeds, Hartmut Grabe p, Hämi Hämmerli or Thomas Dürst b, Guido Parini dr, Peter Schärli tp)
  • Tour with Jerry Dental Kollektdoof (Das kochende Inferno), among others at the Jazz Festival Willisau 1978 and at the Theater Festival Munich (some participants: (Brigitte Märk, Giuseppe Reichmuth, Ruedi Häusermann, Jürg Woodtli, Urs Blöchlinger, Christoph Baumann, Robert Morgenthaler, Hämi Hämmerli, Marco Käppeli, Beat Blaser )
  • Concerts with Kifaru (Urs Blöchlinger as, Daniel Guggenheim ts, Christoph Baumann p, Hämi Hämmerli b, Marco Käppeli dr)
  • Appearances with the Orchestre de la musique de Lausanne
  • Began teaching at the Jazz School Lucerne (1981)
  • Projects with John Wolf-Brennan, including in a duo Freemprovisation and with No-nätt at the Jazz Festival Willisau 1980
  • Big band of the Swiss Jazz School Bern (Bern Jazz Festival)
  • Hungary tour with the Latin band Ritmo Caliente (including Willy Kotoun p, Jürg Burkhart reeds, Tini Hägler perc)
  • Trumpet player in the reggae band Steel-Pulse, concerts at the Afro Festival in Leysin and in northern Italy
  • CH tour with the salsa band Cameleon (including with Johnny Otis perc, ex-Santana musician, Shifer Schafer g and Samuel Jungs b, ex-musicians with Rumpelstilz, Vince Benedetti tb, Umberto Arlati and Peter Schärli tps, Jürg Lehmann dr)
  • Appearances with Das tanzende Theather by Roni Segal (dance: Roni Segal, Lieselotte Bugnon and Tal Haran, musicians: Peter Schärli tp, Daniel Guggenheit reeds, Hämi Hämmerli b, Heinz Lieb dr)
  • Swinging Green Big Band (led by Hans Jörg Player)
  • Trumpet teacher at the district schools of Buchs/AG, Reinach/AG and Schötz/LU
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