Lisette Spinnler Jazz vocalist
Short biography
Born 1976, grew up in Wittinsburg, lives in Basle. Ten years of piano lessons. At 17, began singing lessons. University of Music, Basle (Sandy Patton and Susanne Abbühl). In 1999 awarded a scholarship from the Friedl Wald Stiftung (jury member: George Gruntz) and forms her first band. In 2001 named best solo artist at the Montreux OFF Festival (jury member: Thierry Lang). Lecturer in the Jazz Department of the University of Music, Basle since 2006. Has toured extensively in Switzerland and overseas with, among others, the European Jazz Youth Orchestra, Cojazz (Andy Scherrer, Stephan Kurmann, and Peter Schmidlin), BraffOesterRohrer, Theodosii Spassov, Christoph Stiefel, Adrian Mears (Requiem Op. 48, Der Berner Totentanz), Jean-Paul Brodbeck, Fabian Gisler, Domenic Landolf, Thomas Moeckel, Franz Hellmüller, Rafi Woll.
Biography (long version)
| 1999 | Scholarship from the Friedl Wald Stiftung (jury member: George Gruntz) Forms first group – a quartet with Oliver Friedli (piano), Patrick Sommer (bass) and Andreas Hoerni (drums) |
| 2000 | Opening concert of the Basle Off-Beat jazz festival, alongside acts such as Omara Portuondo, vocalist with the Buena Vista Social Club |
| 2001 | Zurich jazz festival in Moods im Schiffbau (wins the Chrysler breakthrough act award) Named best solo artist the Montreux OFF Festival (jury member: Thierry Lang) |
| 2002 | Berne Jazz Festival |
| 2003 | Swiss tour (Suisse Diagonales Jazz) with her quartet International Jazz Meeting, Helsinki (Finland), led by Dave Liebman Basle Off-Beat Jazz Festival, appearing on the same billing as Jane Monheit Four-week European tour with the European Jazz Youth Orchestra, led by Bruno Tommaso |
| 2004 | Formation of the Siawaloma Quintet with Colin Vallon (piano), Alex Hendriksen (sax, flute), Patrice Moret (bass) and Michi Stulz (drums, percussion) Two-week tour of Germany with the Dietkrons Festival BeJazz, Berne CD “In between” (Siawaloma) together with sound engineer Peter Bürli and producer Martin Pearson (Radio DRS-2), released on the TCB label created by Peter Schmidlin Basle Off-Beat Jazz Festival Winner of the Basel Landschaft Cantonal Bank Award Takes up post as lecturer at the Basle Jazz School |
| 2005 | Concerts with Christine Lauterburg, Raphael Zehnder, the Bulgarian kaval virtuoso Theodosii Spassov and the Gabrovo chamber orchestra, led by Ivan Stoyanov |
| 2006 | CD “But Beautiful” (Voice It) with Roland Köpplel (piano), Dave Feusi (sax), Michael Chylewski (bass) and Andreas Schnyder (drums) Performed at “generations – Internationales Jazztreffen Frauenfeld” with Cojazz - Andy Scherrer (piano), Stephan Kurmann (bass) and Peter Schmidlin (drums) Takes up post as a lecturer in the Jazz Department of the University of Music, Basle |
| 2007 | Basle Off-Beat Jazz Festival CD “djunsha” with the Daniel Woodtli Trio (Daniel Woodtli, Nick Perrin and Lorenz Beyeler) |
| 2008 | Performed at “generations – Internationales Jazztreffen Frauenfeld” withBraffOesterRohrer |
| 2009 | Played at the “Stimmen” Festival, Lörrach, alongside other artists such as Lisa Sokolov and Melody Gardot |
New album:
Duo Christoph Stiefel and Lisette Spinnler
Release: February 2012