Nik Bärtsch

Nik Bärtsch (born 3 August 1971) is a Swiss pianist, composer, bandleader, record producer[1][2] and author from Zürich.

This style of drawing a motif with a few strokes and a certain verve helped him more than studying the great musical role models.

[4] At the age of 14, he was fascinated by the energy and music of the film Ran by the legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.

He grew interested in the work of avant-garde composers John Cage, Steve Reich, and Morton Feldman.

Manfred Eicher signed the band Ronin to his label, ECM Records, and released 2006 the first album Stoa.

Bärtsch lives with his wife, a biologist with a doctorate, shiatsu therapist as well as aikido teacher, and his three daughters in Zurich, where he plays every Monday in "Exil."

[citation needed] Nik Bärtsch's work is at the intersection of contemporary music, jazz and funk influences.

The result is a grooving, tonally and rhythmically highly differentiated music, composed of a few phrases and motifs that are combined and overlaid in ever new and varied ways.

[15] At the European jazz competition of the German Leverkusen Jazztage in 1995, Bärtsch reached the finals with Menico Ferrari's band Groove Cooperative.