GABRIELA FRIEDLI

Gabriela Friedli (born 1963 ) is a Swiss pianist and composer working in jazz and contemporary improvisation. She lives in the Zurich region. Friedli, whose mother is a musician, received classical guitar and piano lessons as a child . At the age of 20, she began taking improvisation lessons with Claudia Ulla Binder . Alongside her free improvisational music, she immersed herself in jazz and attended the jazz schools in Lucerne and St. Gallen. Subsequently, she studied classical piano for several years with pianist Erna Ronca at the Zurich University of the Arts . After training as a jazz pianist, she increasingly turned to free improvisation and has been giving concerts with various projects and ensembles for many years. In 1991, she formed the duo "Frappant" with Priska Walss ( Intervista , 2000–2002). She also played in a trio with Irène Schweizer and Jan Schlegel . She is also read more...