Ralph Zurmühle

Ralph Zurmühle is a Swiss composer and pianist. Zurmühle was born in Zürich and grew up mainly in Liechtenstein. He graduated from the University of Zürich and now lives in Spain. Zurmühle discovered his natural talent for the piano at the age of five and developed it over decades with jazz and classical music studies.
His CD recordings, composed in the genre of contemporary post-classical piano music, have been met with international critical acclaim and have received multiple awards and nominations. His fourth CD eQuinox, published in 2011, was originally produced and distributed by Valley Entertainment, New York. In 2023 a vinyl of Zurmühle's Studio Live Session at Little Big Beat Studios was released. This album had been recorded during COVID-19 pandemic in the summer of 2020.
Compositions from these CDs have been featured in films and multi-media projects worldwide. For more than twenty years Ralph Zurmühle has been scoring music for film and performing solo piano concerts, mostly playing his own repertoire.
Pianists he has performed with include Peter Kater, Chad Lawson and David Peña Dorantes.

Discography

2000 '
2003 '
2007 '
2011 '
2014 '
2019 '
2023
2024 ''''

Multimedia and film productions

1992 From the Other End of Time, performance by Arno Oehri, New York
1994 Nachtgebet, film-performance by Arno Oehri, Sarjetschnij, Russia
1996 Der Berg, das Meer und die Wunde, theater piece by Arno Oehri, Liechtenstein
1999 The Norman Lee Story, documentary by Arno Oehri, Liechtenstein, USA
2005 ', documentary by Pere Herms for National Spanish TV La 2 (Spain)
2005 ' – original score and live performance for classic silent films by Luis Buñuel, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, René Clair and Walter Ruttmann, 2005, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Spain.
2006 ', Multimedia project by ', Metrònom, Barcelona, and International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Almería, Spain
2006 Harvest Moon film by Jack McKusky, Barcelona, Spain
2008 ', film by Thomas Suski, Edinburgh, U.K.
2009 Erinnere dich, was sie dir angetan haben..., documentary, Germany
2013 Momix ', multimedia performance with ' from the CD ', New York
2014 ', Multimedia project by ', Museo Can Mario, Palafrugell, Spain
2014 ', documentary by ', Mexico
2014 ', documentary by ', USA
2015 ', documentary by ', Poland
2019 ', film by ', Liechtenstein

Reviews

"' explores the sonority of the piano masterfully and reaches a technical and artistic dimension only achievable by the finest contemporary piano works." '
"25 years after the glory days of the solo piano genre sparked by artists like Keith Jarrett and George Winston, the solo piano album remains an elusive undertaking: very easy to do - very hard to do well. Swiss pianist Ralph Zurmühle is one of those rare artists, who does it sublimely well, with great sensitivity to touch, melody, and ambience. Listen and you will find yourself in the hands of a master."
" is music to spur the imagination. With inspiration, simplicity and elegance, this superb work by Ralph Zurmühle confirms the solid trajectory of one of the greatest exponents in the world of solo piano." ''''