Christian Zehnder was born in Zurich in 1961 and today lives in Basel. He studied the guitar and classical singing before moving on to overtone singing and bodily vocal techniques. In 1996 he teamed up with Balthasar Streiff to form the International multi-award-winning duo Stimmhorn. He has worked intensively on the non-verbal forms of expression in the human voice, as well as yodelling as a mode of communication. He works as a theatre musician and producer for music theatre and as a singer in various music line-ups, produces solo music projects in the fields of performance and visual arts, and composes for film, TV and radio.
Year of creation
2015
Director
Julien Gremaud, Noémie Gygax
Credits and thanks
Swiss Music Prize 2015
Edited by Federal Office of Culture, Berne
Project managers: Martine Chalverat
Art directors: Noémie Gygax, Julien Gremaud
Direction and editing: Olivier Bemer
Production and interview: Julien Gremaud
Sound designer: Aurélien Hamm
Graphic design: Noémie Gygax
Translation: Lisa Stein
Christian Zehnder – Swiss Music Prize 2015
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Christian Zehnder was born in Zurich in 1961 and today lives in Basel. He studied the guitar and classical singing before moving on to overtone singing and bodily vocal techniques. In 1996 he teamed up with Balthasar Streiff to form the International multi-award-winning duo Stimmhorn. He has worked intensively on the non-verbal forms of expression in the human voice, as well as yodelling as a mode of communication. He works as a theatre musician and producer for music theatre and as a singer in various music line-ups, produces solo music projects in the fields of performance and visual arts, and composes for film, TV and radio.
Credits and thanks
Swiss Music Prize 2015
Edited by Federal Office of Culture, Berne
Project managers: Martine Chalverat
Art directors: Noémie Gygax, Julien Gremaud
Direction and editing: Olivier Bemer
Production and interview: Julien Gremaud
Sound designer: Aurélien Hamm
Graphic design: Noémie Gygax
Translation: Lisa Stein
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