Bruno Spoerri

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Swiss musician

Places

Switzerland

Musician Jazz musician Composer Saxophonist Record producer Film score composer

Work field

Business Film, TV, Stage & Radio Music

Gender

Male

Birth

16 August 1935 People who share this birthday

Place of birth

Zürich, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Age

89 years

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Biography

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

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

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