"Daniel Studer was born in Zürich in 1961, lived and worked in Rome from 1981 to 1995, is now living with his family in Zurich.Master of arts in Music Pedagogy, guest composer at the Elektronisches Studio in Basel, studied composition with Johannes Schöllhorn.2010 award from the city of Zurich.

His focus lies on improvisation and mixed forms of improvisation and composition. He participated in various projects involving space - and projects with live electronics; further fields of interest are music and language, music and dance, music and video poetry. The constant exploration of his instrument has led to performances as a soloist, too.For years he has been working with Peter K Frey, Mischa Käser, Katharina Klement, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Dieter Ulrich and Alfred Zimmerlin.Presently he is part of the Kontrabassduo Studer-Frey, Kimmig-Studer-Zimmerlin, III-VII-XII (with Mischa Käser and Urs Haenggli) and the trio Gabriela Friedli Trio.

Concerts and radio recordings in Europe, Japan and USA. Among others he played with Lester Bowie, Jacques Demierre, Michel Doneda, Paolo Fresu, Gerry Hemingway, Steve Grossmann, Barney Kessel, Hans Koch, Riccardo Lay, Joëlle Léandre, Magda Mayas, Mike Melillo, Evan Parker, Antonello Salis, Irene Schweizer, Tony Scott, Co Streiff, Sebi Tramontana, Massimo Urbani, Urs Voerkel, Bobby Watson and many others.

Records with the Kontrabassduo Studer-Frey, Kimmig-Studer-Zimmerlin, Giancarlo Schiaffini Quintet, Gabriela Friedli Trio, Solo, In Transit, Eichenbergers Domino, Day & Taxi, Käppeli-Lüscher-Studer, Streichtrio Coen-Penazzi-Studer on labels as Intakt,Unit Records, EMANEM, Konnex, Percaso, Creative Sources, Edition RZ.

Festivals: Controindicazioni Roma, Le Mans Jazz Festival, Südtirol Jazz Festival Bozen, Clusone Jazz, Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon, Unerhört! Zürcher Jazzfestival, Willisau Jazz Festival, Zoom in Bern, Schaffhauser Jazzfestival, Limmitantiones, Romaeuropa, Zürcher Theaterspektakel, World New Music Days, Honmoku Jazz Festival Yokohama, Jazz and more München, Siena Jazz, Progetto Musica Roma

He has been teaching improvisation at different music schools so at the Bern University of the Arts since 2006."

"Peter K. Frey (born May 21, 1941 in Baden AG ) is a Swiss bass player and sound artist.Live and act

Frey received piano lessons during his primary school teacher training. He began performing as a musician on the double bass in the Zurich Jazz Cafe Africana . Since 1972 he played in bands with Urs Voerkel . The idea for concept improvisations arose in a musician shared apartment with Irène Schweizer and Michel Seigner . Building on this, the ensemble Karl ein Karl was created in 1983 with Michel Seigner and Alfred Zimmerlin , which appeared at the Donaueschinger Musiktage , among others (the name of the ensemble comes from a text by Konrad Bayer). In addition, Frey worked as a programmer for a software company before he decided to live as a professional musician. Frey works as a freely improvising musician with double bass and voice. He gives concerts with Karl an Karl as well as in a duo with his bass colleague Daniel Studer (which has also been expanded to a quartet with Joëlle Léandre and Lukas Frey), but also solo. Together with his wife, the ceramist Theres Stämpfli, he has been creating installations under the title TON since 1993.

Since 1978 he has also worked as a teacher for improvised music and music on the computer at various Swiss educational institutions such as the F + F School for Art and Media Design Zurich or the University of Social Work Zurich . He also taught in a postgraduate course in free improvisation at the Musikhochschule Luzern (2002/2003) and the Music Academy of the City of Basel (from 2003),

Frey is a founding member of the Musician Cooperative Switzerland and co-founder and co-director of the Workshop for Improvised Music Zurich. In addition to his concert and teaching activities, he works as a composer for musical productions as well as for installations with visual artists."