Bruno Spoerri
Bruno Alexander Spoerri is a Swiss jazz and electronics musician.
Born in Zurich, he studied applied psychology in Basel and Zurich. He played the saxophone as a student and toured with the Modern Jazz Group Freiburg in Germany and Switzerland. In the early 1960s, he worked as a psychologist and career counsellor. He experimented with an electrified saxophone and published the album Voice of Taurus in 1978.
Discography
Jazz-Rock Experience Glückskugel Container Voice of Taurus Toy Planet with Irmin Schmidt AX+BY+CZ+D=0- Zürich Tenors
- Albert Mangelsdorff - Bruno Spoerri - Christy Doran - Reto Weber: ''Shake, Shuttle and Blow''
Awards
- Jazz Festival Zürich 1954: First Prize for Saxophone and Band
- Jazz Festival Düsseldorf 1956: Second Prize for Alto Saxophone with Modern Jazz Group Freiburg
- Jazz Festival Zürich 1958: First Prize for Bigband
- International Advertising Film Festival Cannes 1965: First Prize for TV-Spot Bic
- American TV and Radio Commercials Festival 1971: Clio for TV-Spot Riri
- 1973 Filmpreis der Stadt Zürich
- 1979 First prize in Ars Electronica Linz for Demonstration of Lyricon
- 1992 Featured Guest Composer bei der International Computer Music Conference San José
- Various awards for advertising films by the Art Directors’ Club Switzerland
- Art Prize 2004 of the municipality of Zollikon
- Swiss Jazz Award 2017
- Sankt Elektronika Lifetime Achievement Award, St. Gallen