Michael Bucher

Bucher, Sommer, Friedli and Aeby studied at various Swiss music colleges and pursued further music training in New York & Los Angeles. They have been working actively as professional musicians for years in the Swiss jazz scene and take individual side-trips time and again into other music genres as well as into film and theater music.
Michael Bucher, born in 1975, lives and works in Zurich where he completed his studies in music with a college degree in 1999. In 2000/ 2001, he continued his studies in New York where he took lessons from Peter Bernstein and Wayne Krantz, among others. You can already hear him on Double Moon Records as guitarist on Jochen Baldes' Kobal. Patrick Sommer was born in 1976. He studied at Bern College, attended numerous workshops held by renowned musicians such as Rufus Reid, Ray Brown, Dave Liebman, Jerry Bergonzi and others, and also studied in Los Angeles. Sommer is active in several other bands, among others, those of Max Lässer and Klaus Koenig. Tobias Friedli (born in 1978) lives and works in Bern where he graduated from the Art College in 2003. He also lived a few months in New York and took lessons from Ali Jackson and Amir Ziv, for example. In addition to other bands, he also plays in the Swiss Jazz Orchestra. Stefan Aeby was born in 1979. After graduating from Fribourg Conservatory, he continued his education by taking lessons from various musicians such as Art Lande, Don Friedman and Marc Copland. In 2005, he completed an additional degree in Musicology and Art History at Fribourg University. He plays in several bands these days, with which he tours internationally and has become well known; among others, they include Tobias Preisig Quartet, Lisette Spinnler Band and Christoph Irniger's Pilgrim (released in Between the Lines)