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Sophie Lüssi
The Swiss-Argentine violinist and composer, Sophie Lüssi, studied jazz violin with Daniel Schenker and Pierre Blanchard in the department of jazz and popular music at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Zürich University of the Arts). Then followed further studies in composition with Daniel Montes in Buenos Aires.
Sophie Lüssi was living in Buenos Aires from 2004 to 2021. Since 2022 she is back in Switzerland. She plays in various jazz and tango groups; among other things the violin in Swing de Paris and viola in Leonardo Ferreyra Tango String Quartet. From 2014 - 2019 she played the viola in the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Theatre Colon in Buenos Aires.
Sophie regularly gives jazz workshops for string players in Argentina and in Switzerland. She taught jazz violin from 2011 to 2021 at the „Escuela de Música Popular" in Avellaneda (Argentina). Searching for new sounds and formations for the jazz violin, she founded different ensembles with whom she performs her compositions.
She also writes commissioned compositions, among others: "Amapala" (Jazz violin and the Zuger Sinfonietta, 2015), Burra de Viaje (Tango Quintet „Deseo de tango“, 2020), Las estaciones suizas (Jazz festival ChilEuropa, 2020), „Hans im Glück“ , a Fairy Tail Concert (2022), „Die Wunderblume“ for String Quartet (Musica Aperta, 2024).
Actually, she is leaving in Winterthur and teaching Jazz Violin at the „Musikschule Jazz/Jazzcampus" in Basel (Switzerland).
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Sophie Lüssi, Sandra Weiss, Fridolin Blumer, Andreas Wettstein: Atlantic Puffin
by Alberto Bazzurro
Un clima che ricorda abbastanza da vicino il versante più spigliato, fluido, incalzante (quanto assolutamente incruento) di certo jazz californiano anni Cinquanta, è quanto ci giunge come primo input da questo album anni Venti del secolo successivo (incisione del febbraio 2022, per l'esattezza) nato non sulla West Coast USA, bensì in terra elvetica. Certe intermittenze classicheggianti (cameristiche, in particolare) si fanno largo per la verità già fin dal terzo brano (il secondo ampio, dopo la prima delle varie ...
Continue ReadingSophie Lüssi - Sandra Weiss - Fridolin Blumer - Andreas Wettstein: Atlantic Puffin
by Glenn Astarita
AllAboutBirds.org describes the Atlantic Puffin as “a sharply dressed black-and-white seabird with a huge, multicolored bill, the Atlantic Puffin is often called the clown of the sea." This album finds the foursome gleefully tossing classical precision, folk whispers and improvisational bravado into a blender, hitting pulse until it is a cohesive, if occasionally slippery, concoction. With violinist Sophie Lussi at the helm, joined by Sandra Weiss (alto saxophone and bassoon), Fridolin Blumer (double bass) and Andreas Wettstein (drums), ...
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