Bruno Spoerri

Bruno Alexander Spoerri (born 16 August 1935) 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 (Deram, 1970) Glückskugel (Finders Keepers Records, 1971–1980) Container (1976) Voice of Taurus (Gold Records/Inzec, 1978) Toy Planet with Irmin Schmidt (Spoon Records, 1981) AX+BY+CZ+D=0 (1983) Zürich Tenors (FFO 1983, with Ernst Gerber, Fernando Fantini, Richard Lipiec, Umberto Foletti, Rolf Cizmek, Hans Brunner) Albert Mangelsdorff - Bruno Spoerri - Christy Doran - Reto Weber: Shake, Shuttle and Blow (Enja, 1999)

Awards Jazz Festival Zürich 1954: First Prize for Saxophone and Band Jazz Festival Düsseldorf (Deutschland) 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 (Produktion Televico) 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 (Hintermeister-Gyger Foundation) Swiss Jazz Award 2017 Sankt Elektronika Lifetime Achievement Award, St. Gallen