Bruno Spoerri

Bruno Alexander Spoerri (born 16 August 1935) is a Swiss jazz and electronics musician.

Bruno Spoerri

Born in Zurich, he studied applied psychology in Basel and Zurich. He played the saxophone as a student, and toured with the Modern Jazz Group Freiburg in Germany and Switzerland. In the early 1960s, he worked as a psychologist and career counsellor. He experimented with electrified saxophone and published the album Voice of Taurus in 1978.^[1]

Discography

• Jazz-Rock Experience (Deram, 1970)
• Glückskugel (Finders Keepers Records, 1971–1980)
• Container (1976)
• Voice of Taurus (Gold Records/Inzec, 1978)
• Toy Planet with Irmin Schmidt (Spoon Records, 1981)
• AX+BY+CZ+D=0 (1983)
• Zürich Tenors (FFO 1983, with Ernst Gerber, Fernando Fantini, Richard Lipiec, Umberto Foletti, Rolf Cizmek, Hans Brunner)
• Albert Mangelsdorff - Bruno Spoerri - Christy Doran - Reto Weber: Shake, Shuttle and Blow (Enja, 1999)

Awards

• Jazz Festival Zürich 1954: First Prize for Saxophone and Band
• Jazz Festival Düsseldorf (Deutschland) 1956: Second Prize for Alto Saxophone with Modern Jazz Group Freiburg
• Jazz Festival Zürich 1958: First Prize for Bigband
• International Advertising Film Festival Cannes 1965: First Prize for TV-Spot Bic (Produktion Televico)
• American TV and Radio Commercials Festival 1971: Clio for TV-Spot Riri
• 1973 Filmpreis der Stadt Zürich
• 1979 First prize in Ars Electronica Linz for Demonstration of Lyricon
• 1992 Featured Guest Composer bei der International Computer Music Conference San José
• Various awards for advertising films by the Art Directors’ Club Switzerland
• Art Prize 2004 of the municipality of Zollikon (Hintermeister-Gyger Foundation)
• Swiss Jazz Award 2017
• Sankt Elektronika Lifetime Achievement Award, St. Gallen^[2]

Further reading

• Spoerri, Bruno. "Spoerri, Bruno Alexander". In Spoerri, Bruno (ed.). Biografisches Lexikon des Schweizer Jazz (in German). CD-accessory to: Spoerri, Bruno, ed. (2005). Jazz in der Schweiz. Geschichte und Geschichten (in German). Zürich: Chronos-Verlag. ISBN 3-0340-0739-6.
• Widerøe, Arild. Swiss Jazz Discography 1925-2004. CD-accessory to: Spoerri, Bruno, ed. (2005). Jazz in der Schweiz. Geschichte und Geschichten (in German). Zürich: Chronos Verlag. ISBN 3-0340-0739-6.