#15 Irène Schweizer – brilliant jazz pionneer | Swiss Grand Award for Music 2018

Irène Schweizer, who was born in Schaffhausen in 1941, is a leading female pianist in modern jazz. Brilliant and entirely self-taught, she has amassed an oeuvre that is beyond compare. Besides concert performances around the globe, she has released ground-breaking albums, both on her own and in duos with Pierre Favre, Joey Baron and others. She has been a standard-bearer for women in European music, for example with Les Diaboliques, and co-founded the Taktlos festival and the jazz label Intakt Records. She plays like no other, with impeccable skill and perfect clarity, her charisma creating a unique musical signature.

Produced by Federal Office of Culture, Bern
and Collection, Paris/Lausanne

Project Management - Martine Chalverat
Direction - Julien Chavaillaz
Image – Maxime Kathari
Sound - Bruce Willoud
Production - Julien Chavaillaz & Collection
Direction of production - Annie Gisler
Editing & Calibration - Mathieu Cacheux
Translation - Juliette Rosset
Graphic design - Noémie Gygax

schweizermusikpreis.ch
intaktrec.ch/schweizer-a.htm