Anmari Mëtsa Yabi Wili

Biography

Living and working on board of her cultural cargo ship Lorin in CH / FR / DE / NL, she has been
initiating projects with an avant-garde, interdisciplinary and border-breaking character since
receiving the music award from the Kiefer-Hablitzel Foundation in 1987. Initially working as a
pianist, she has developed into being a composer, performer with or without voice, visual artist and
conceptual artist as well. She collaborated with radio and television, Alex Buess, Daniel Cholette,
Barbara Doll, Karin Dornbusch, Saskia Edens, Sonja Feldmeier, Aleksander Gabrys, Charlotte Hug,
Nina Iseli, Adrian Laugsch, Eung Kwang Lee, Heinrich Lüber, Ueli Michel, Niki Neecke, Pauline
Oliveros, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Alice Rossi, Kaija Saariaho, Marianne Schröder, Shazeb Arif Shaikh,
James Tenney, Lotta Wennäkoski, Jürg Wyttenbach, Iannis Xenakis, Aline Zeltner, Agata Zubel and
others. After completing her studies with Jürg Wyttenbach in Basel, she taught at the Basel Music
Academy from 1987 to 2003 and for two years she headed the opera workshop of the Basel Music
Academy. In 1998 she founded the ensemble LE DONNE IDEALI with projects such as Pauline
Oliveros Portrait, KOREAexchange, ScAnDiNaViAnCoOkIeS, Giornate delle donne ideali and guests
on International Women's Day and POLAND - WHERE ARE YOU?!. In 2002 she started her
syndromics-variation-band, with works by Alex Buess, Conlon Nancarrow, Iannis Xenakis, Pauline
Oliveros and Anmari Mëtsa Yabi Wili etc.
2009, after a 3-year stay in Lima-Peru for the project ¡SI- TE QUIERO con MËTSA YABI y sus
DRIVINGSOUNDS and an intensification of the visual disciplines, she created the production
facility Kulturfrachter Lorin and founded drivingsounds & arts. Her artistic activities take place in
the big cultural centers of Europe, North / South America and India.
Since 2020 she has been President of the FMD, ForumMusikDiversität.