Daniel Schenker Quintet

Daniel Schenker (*1963) received his first trumpet lessons at the age of ten. After studying computer sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH), he was awarded his concert diploma by the Swiss Jazz School in Berne. Since the 1980s, Daniel Schenker has been a sought-after sideman in many Swiss bands and has played in concert and on tour with Kenny Werner, Joe Haider, Bill Holman and many others. He has paid several visits to New York. Schenker’s freelance work as a jazz musician in Switzerland and abroad led to the founding of the Daniel Schenker Quartet in 2001. In the course of time, the quartet found its way to its own, melodic, swinging acoustic music whose watchword is ‘interplay’ and whose work is characterized by arching forms. After their first album "iridium" (2003, Brambus Records) there followed the CD "soundlines" (2006, TCB Records) with the New York saxophonist Chris Cheek as a guest artist, and "Jardim Botanicô" (2010, Musiques Suisses), which features a greater influence of Brazilian ‘Música popular’.
  The sound of the Quartet is defined also by Schenker’s partners: Stefan Aeby is one of the most significant young pianists in French Switzerland and joined the Quartet in 2009; Dominique Girod (bass) and Elmar Frey (drums) are sought-after band musicians in Switzerland. Frey, Girod and Schenker have played together in various formations for more than twenty years.
  Since 2013, Schenker is also co-leading the Zurich Jazz Orchestra and played and organised concerts with guests Nelson Faria, Thomas Gansch, Jojo Mayer, Nils Wogram, Bill Holman and others. Schenker teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).