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Mirjam Hassig

From very early on Mirjam fell in love with music and singing. She surrounded herself with sounds, started to sing in many different bands and gained experience on stage in various formations. At the Langnauer Jazz Nights she discovered Jazz singing for the first time and was fasciated and inspired by the freedom of improvised music. She had lessons with musicians like Becca Stevens, Gretchen Parlato, Thomas Dürst, Jeff Ballard and many more.

After winning a scholarship at the Swiss Jazz School she started to study jazz vocals in Bern. Efrat Alony, Andreas Schaerer, Patrice Moret, Django Bates and many more became her musical teachers. Later on she took classes with Susanne Abbuehl who became a musical mentor to Mirjam.

In 2019 she started writing her own music for her quartet Ayé! Mirjam Hässig. Mirjam always was touched by lyrical song structures and started to create her own musical world, inspired by illustrations of nature, metaphorical language and poems she resonated with. 2021 she won the audience award of the ZKB Jazzpreis Moods with the music of her latest Album CORALLAND (HOUT RECORDS 2021).

Some highlights of the last years were to sing in concert venues like Birds Eye Basel, Moods Zürich, BeJazz Club Bern, Jazz Club Aarau, a featuring in the Band MURMULLO by Clemens Kuratle in BeFlat Club Bern, an invitation to a concert with the DUO STUCKI&STEINI in Burgdorf.

Awards

2019 Cultur award Burgdorf (Kulturförderpreis Burgdorf) 2021 Audience award ZKB Jazzprize Moods

Lumor: Flock of Birds

Read "Flock of Birds" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
February 19, 2023

Lumor's vocalist, Mirjam Hassig, describes the trio as a “Swiss jazz and ambient band," which goes some way, but not all the way, to summing up the group and the music to be heard on its debut album, Flock of Birds. Yes, it is a jazz trio, the line-up completed by leader and composer Manuel Sidler on guitar and Flo Hufschmid on drums. Yes, much of the music can be described as ambient, in the sense of being calm, restful ...

Album Review

Aye! Mirjam Hassig: Coralland

Read "Coralland" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
December 20, 2021

Coralland is the debut album from Ayé! Mirjam Hässig, a quartet led by the young Swiss vocalist and composer Mirjam Hässig. An intense, atmospheric and often haunting recording, it combines original music with original lyrics or with lyrics drawn from classic poetry. The quartet's instrumental mix is unusual: electronic effects, harp and ukulele join a more traditional bass and drums rhythm section to give the music a distinctive sound that is well-matched to Hässig's emotive vocals. Hässig wrote ...

"Spooky, Folky Pop-Jazz" JAZZ 'N MORE MAGAZINE

"An intense, atmospheric and often haunting recording" BRUCE LINDSAY

"The quartet's instrumental mix is unusual: electronic effects, harp and ukulele join a more traditional bass and drums rhythm section to give the music a distinctive sound that is well-matched to Hässig's emotive vocals." BRUCE LINDSAY

"a solid and fascinating foundation from which the band can develop" BRUCE LINDSAY