Michael Heisch (born 20 May 1963) is a Swiss composer, double bass player, cultural critic and illustrator.
From 1981 to 1984 he then studied with Yoan Goilav at the Winterthur Conservatory, from 1989 to 1991 with Hämi Hämmerli [de] at the St. Gallen Jazz School and from 1991 with Andreas Cincera at the Zurich University of the Arts.
[1] From 1990 to 1994 Heisch studied theory with Martin Neukom and Christian Bänninger at the School of Music Theory in Zurich as well as composition with Hans Ulrich Lehmann and choral conducting and conducting with Christian Siegmann and Johannes Schöllhorn.
From 1998 to 2002 he then studied composition with Johannes Schöllhorn and Mathias Steinauer at the Zurich-Winterthur University of Music and Drama.
As a double bass player he has already worked with the musicians Luigi Archetti [de], Sebastian Hofmann, Mart Lorenz and M. Vänçi Stirnemann.