Christoph Grab with Ralph Alessi, Florian Favre, Lukas Traxel & Pius Baschnagel
Biography Christoph Grab with Ralph Alessi, Florian Favre, Lukas Traxel & Pius Baschnagel
Christoph Grab
Studied at the Swiss Jazz School Bern (saxophone, composition and arrangement), his teachers and mentors included Andy Scherrer, Sal Nistico, Jerry Bergonzi, Joe Lovano and Dave Liebman. Many recordings for radio and television, countless tours and concerts all over the world. Performances with Ray Anderson, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Irene Schweizer, Benny Golson, Joe Beck, Mark Egan, Danny Gottlieb, Frank Moebus, Axel Dörner, Burhan Oecal, Harald Haerter and many more.
Christoph Grab is currently internationally active with his projects BLOSSOM (Grab, Alessi, Traxel, Baschnagel), REFLECTIONS (Grab, Thoeni, Tschopp, Oester, Baschnagel) and ROOT AREA (Grab, Johänntgen, Thomi, Frey).
In addition to his work as a freelancer in the Swiss jazz scene, he belongs to many permanent formations, e.g. TOUGH TENOR, Christoph Steiner's Escape Argot, Reto Anneler STILLE POST, Baumann/Grab/ Haemmerli/Renold, Raphael Jost & Lots of Horns, Zurich Composers Collective, ELLINGTONALITY, Axel Fischbacher Oktett, Spittin' Horns, Elmar Frey Septett, etc. Earlier formations were RAW VISION (Grab, Graupe, Lüscher, Walser, Paratte), SCIENCE FICTION THEATER, Zurich Jazz Orchestra, Neuromodulator, KOJ/Nadelöhr, Kurt Weil Vibes Revisited, ContempArabic Jazz Ensemble, Marion Denzler Group, The Blindside, Lukas Bitterlin Quartett, Blastic, Grab/Kopf Quartett etc.
His intensive involvement with live electronics and his performances with toys that have been hacked and transformed into sound machines have also brought him attention in the electronics and DJ scene.
In addition to his active musicianship, Christoph Grab has been a professor of saxophone and improvisation at the Jazz Faculty of the Zurich University of the Arts since 1998.
He lives in Zurich with his partner and two children.
