Hans Koch (born March 12, 1948) is a Swiss clarinetist, saxophonist, and film score composer.
He traveled with cellist Martin Schütz in 1987 to Manhattan where they worked in the avant-garde music scene.
[1] In 1990 Koch performed and recorded in a jazz trio with pianist Paul Bley and trumpeter Franz Koglmann.
In 1993 he founded another trio, Holz für Europa, with multi-instrumentalist woodwind player Wolfgang Fuchs and saxophonist Peter van Bergen.
[1] Koch composed the film scores to Meine Freunde in der DDR (1990), Höhenfeuer (1985),[1] Die Kunst der exakten Phantasie (2006), Das Schiff des Torjägers (2010), Pepe Mujica in Pepe Mujica - Lessons from the Flowerbed (2014), and Stand Up My Beauty (2021).