Christoph Grab, Nicole Johänntgen, Marcel Thomi, Elmar Frey
Biography Christoph Grab, Nicole Johänntgen, Marcel Thomi, Elmar Frey
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. He has made numerous recordings for radio and television and performed countless tours and concerts around the world. He has performed 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 is a member of many established formations, including TOUGH TENOR, Christoph Steiner's Escape Argot, Reto Anneler's STILLE POST, Baumann/Grab/Haemmerli/Renold, Raphael Jost & Lots of Horns, Zurich Composers Collective, ELLINGTONALITY, Axel Fischbacher Oktett, Spittin' Horns, Elmar Frey Septett, etc. Previous formations include 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 work with live electronics and his performances with hacked and His toys, transformed into sound machines, also gained him attention in the electronic music and DJ scene.
In addition to his active musical career, 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.
