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Mirjam Hassig
Mirjam Hässig is appreciated for her versatility, originality and unique vocal sound. The warm timbre of her voice is described as enveloping and enchanting. She discovered her love of sound at an early age and began exploring in various formations. Mirjam began to actively gain stage experience as a much sought-after soloist with various projects. Among others, she sings in concert venues such as Villa Bernau, Birdseye Basel, BeJazz Bern, Moods Zürich, Kulturcasino Bern, Kursaal Bern and Jazz Club Aarau or at festivals such as Piz Linard, Buskers Bern, Blue Balls Luzern and Langnauer Jazz Nights. Time and again she collaborates on unique, interdisciplinary productions. For example, she composes and performs for the art performance of the Basel artist Bernhard Chiquet at his vernissage or participates in dance projects such as "Feu, Ami de L'homme" or the music and movement piece "Superman" inspired by Laurie Anderson.
With her world music trio HALEYLA, Mirjam is committed to cultural exchange in the field of music education. They work on traditional Persian song material and seek to mix and link it with Western music. With exhibitions, readings and the musical framework, an inviting and all-round coherent insight into a distant world is created. In 2017, she completed her Bachelor's degree in jazz singing at the Bern University of the Arts. Since then she has been studying for a Master's degree in Jazz Singing, Performance at the Bern University of the Arts.
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 and of course a Duo-Project with the famous Django Bates in Summer 2024.
Awards
2019 Culture award Burgdorf (Kulturförderpreis Burgdorf)
2021 Audience award ZKB Jazzprize Moods
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Lumor: Flock of Birds
by Bruce Lindsay
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 ...
Continue ReadingAye! Mirjam Hassig: Coralland
by Bruce Lindsay
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 ...
Continue Reading"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
Primary Instrument
Vocals
Willing to teach
Intermediate to advanced
