Susanne Abbuehl (born July 30, 1970) is a Swiss/Dutch

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...

singer and composer. As a child she received lessons in harpsichord, playing baroque music. At the age of 17 she went to Los Angeles where she went to a high school attending music lessons on a daily basis, being part of an ensemble that toured the U.S. and Canada. She studied at the

Royal Conservatory of The Hague The Royal Conservatoire ( nl, Koninklijk Conservatorium, KC) is a conservatoire in The Hague, providing higher education in music and dance. The conservatoire was founded by King William I in 1826, making it the oldest conservatoire in the Nether ...

, Netherlands with

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and Rachel Gould and earned a master's degree in performance and pedagogy. She became a student of Indian classical singer

Prabha Atre Prabha Atre (born 13 September 1932) is an Indian classical vocalist from the Kirana gharana. She has been awarded all three of the Padma Awards by the Government of India. Early life and education Atre was born to Abasaheb and Indirabai At ...

in Mumbai. Abbuehl studied composition with Dutch composer Diderik Wagenaar. In 2001, her album ''April'' was released by ECM and won an Edison award (Dutch Grammy). She tours with her band and other jazz musicians in Europe, North America, and Africa, playing in Montreal, Maputo, Cape Town, Rome, Paris, Zurich, Oslo, and other European cities. In May 2006, her album ''Compass'' was released by ECM (with

Michel Portal Michel Portal (born 27 November 1935) is a French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He plays both jazz and classical music and is considered to be "one of the architects of modern European jazz". Early life Portal was born in Bayonne on ...

). In 2013, her radio play ''Der Gaukler Tag'' was nominated for the Prix Marulic. In her work, influences of classical music can be found. Her artistic identity is characterized by minimal instrumentation and arrangements and can be described as

chamber jazz Chamber jazz is a genre of jazz involving small, acoustic-based ensembles where group interplay is important. It is influenced aesthetically by the small ensembles of chamber music in musical neoclassicism and is often influenced by classical fo ...

. Abbuehl is a professor of jazz voice and ensemble at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts as well as at the HEMU Lausanne. She has taught master classes throughout Europe.

Discography

* ''I Am Rose'' (Evoke, 1997) * ''April'' (ECM, 2001) * ''Ida Lupino'' (Radio Nederland, 2002) * ''Compass'' (ECM, 2006) * ''The Gift'' (ECM, 2013)

References

External links

Official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Abbuehl, Susanne 1970 births Living people Royal Conservatory of The Hague alumni Avant-garde jazz singers Continental jazz singers ECM Records artists Post-bop singers Swiss jazz singers Dutch jazz singers People from Bern 21st-century Swiss musicians 20th-century Swiss women singers 21st-century Swiss women singers 21st-century Dutch women singers 21st-century Dutch singers