Keen to take their music to new and unexplored spaces after a very fruitful and productive tour in India, Lucas Niggli and Karthik S will now play with other members of the ZOOM trio and Sarah Büchi (vocals) in Switzerland.
When Karthik S, a young and established percussionist from Bangalore, India met the immensely talented and well-known Swiss percussionist Lucas Niggli in Zurich in September 2007 during his Residency, the atmosphere reverberated with the sounds of percussion instruments that hailed from across continents. Keen to take their music to new and unexplored spaces after a very fruitful and productive tour in India, Lucas and Karthik will now play with other members of the ZOOM trio and Sarah Büchi (vocals) in Switzerland.
25 March 2010 Uster, Qbus in der Reihe PAM at 2030
26 March 2010 Bern, Vidmarhallen at 2030
27 March 2010 St Gallen, Gambrinus at 2030
Lucas Niggli - drums, percussion
Karthik Mani (Karthik Subramanya) - percussion
Nils Wogram - trombone
Philipp Schaufelberger – guitar
Sarah Büchi - vocals
Lucas Niggli percussion - drums
Lucas Niggli was born in 1968 in West Kamerun. He then moved to Switzerland. Between 1987 and 1995, he played at the experimental New Jazz formation ‘Kieloor Entartet’. In 1995 he founded the avant-core band ‘Steamboat Switzerland’ with Dominik Blum and Marino Pliakas. More than 150 concerts, 4 CDs and 2 vinyl recordings testify to the group's passion and hard work. ‘Lucas Niggli's Zoom’ was founded in 1999. The trio have performed at all of Europe's big festivals, (Moers, Saalfelden, Willisau, and Le Mans) as well as in Vancouver and have recorded many CDs. Lucas Niggli has had the chance to work with musicians from all over the world and belonging to a range of different scenes. Lucas has played along the likes of Barry Guy, John Cale, Pierre Favre, Butch Morris, Trevor Watts, Fred Frith, Hans Koch, Peter Kowald, Peter Waters, Samul Nori, Tom Cora, Ikue Mori, Tenko, Michel Doneda, Michel Wintsch, Collegium Novum, Urs Leimgruber, Arkadij Shilklopper, Jean-Luis Matinier, Martin Schütz, Irene Schweizer, Susanne Abbuehl, Wu Wei, Phil Minton, the filmmaker Peter Mettler, Susanne Abbuehl, Erika Stucky, ARTE Quartet, Andrew Cyrille and many more.
Karthik Mani percussion – drum
Karthik Mani, a Bangalore based percussionist is known for his expertise on the Mridangam. Karthik is energetic and has a solid foundation in South Indian Classical Music. He hails from a family of musicians – his father, TAS Mani is a renowned percussionist of "The Karnataka College of Percussion", and his mother R.A. Ramamani is a reputed ground breaking Carnatic maestro. Karthik Mani started learning how to play the mridangam, as well as Carnatic Classical music at a very early age. He gradually moved on to other percussion instruments. Karthik Mani has performed internationally and with noted musicians. To name a few: Louis Banks, Karl Peters, Keith Peters, Amith Heri, Ranjit Barot, Ramesh Shotham, Mike Herting, Carnatic maestro Mandolin U. Sreenivas, Carnatic flute Maestro N. Ramani and Vasundhara Das. He has also played for an album with the internationally renowned Jazz legend Saxophonist Charlie Mariano. Karthik was selected by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council to visit Zurich on a residency in September 2007, where he attended workshops with Lucas Niggli.
Nils Wogram trombone
Nils Wogram was born on 7 November 1972 in Braunschweig, Germany. From 1984 to 1992, Nils took music-lessons at the municipal conservatory of Braunschweig, from Reinhard Feldmann (member of the Braunschweig Symphony Orchestra), at Hannover from ‘Helmut Seifert’ (member of Northern German broadcasting company Symphony Orchestra) and Martin Göß (member of the “Bamberger Symphoniker"). Nils has been a soloist in New Music for the Krahnenbaum Company which was nominated for the SWF (Southern German Broadcasting Company) Jazzprize. He is credited for various compositions and has conducted trombone-workshops at the Conservatory of Hannover. Nils Wogram is counted as one of the most important musicians of the younger generation in Europe. He appears in many important festivals and tours Europe and other continents extensively. Nils Wogram records his own music every year and releases them on labels like enja records. He is currently a member of many bands, namely Root 70, Nostalgia Trio, Nils Wogram Septett and Lush. He also plays as a duo with Simon Nabatov and Conny Bauer. Nils has received numerous awards such as the culture-prize of the ‘Münchner Abendzeitung’ (Munich newspaper), the culture-prize of the State of Northrhine Westphalia, the jazz-prize of the city of Nürnberg and the Festival Jazz East-West, the SWF (Southern German Broadcasting Company) Jazzprize and the Cologne Artists Scholarship in 1999. He also received a prize at the International Julius Hemphill Competition, USA. Nils has released several CDs which include ‘Speedlife’, ‘Odd and Awkward’, ‘Root 70’ and ‘Starting a Story’ to name a few. Since September 2004, Nils Wogram teaches at the Luzern Music Conservatory.
Philipp Schaufelberger guitar
Philipp Schaufelberger was born in Göttingen in 1970. He has been touring and recording for almost 20 years with the groups of Harald Haerter, Pierre Favre and Lucas Niggli and has performed with musicians like Dewey Redman, Michael Brecker, Paul Motian, Kenny Wheeler, Arthur Blythe, Jim Black and many others. Phillipp has been part of tours in various parts of Europe, Canada, USA and recently even China. He has participated in prestigious Festivals at Montreux, Willisau, North Sea, Moers, Leverkusen, Vancouver, Shanghai, Bath, Amsterdam, Rome, etc. As a producer and composer he can be heard on 'measured & detale' as well as on numerous radio dramas for Swiss and German National Broadcasts. Philipp hosts the 'Fizrok Show', a bimonthly improv, broadcast out of Zurich.
Sarah Büchi vocal
Born in Lucerne, Switzerland in 1981, Sarah learned to play the violin, the piano and the electric guitar at an early age. During high school she started studying western classical singing and performed in different formations. In 2000 she finished school with an award for a musical which she wrote herself. Since 2001 she conducts different projects and choirs. In 2002 she began studying jazz singing at the Jazz School of Lucerne with Lauren Newton and Susanne Abbuehl. In October 2005, she traveled to Bangalore India to study Carnatic classical music & Konnakkol from Vid. R.A. Ramamani, and Vid. T.A.S. Mani. Her latest project is titled ‘Thali - the South-Indian meal’ which is a fusion between jazz and Carnatic music.
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