Christian Zehnder | en

"Christian Zehnder was born in Zurich in 1961 and now lives and works in Basle. He began his musical career by studying guitar but then turned to singing, studying with baritone singer Rapael Laback among others, and graduated with a diploma as a voice instructor. He went on to study overtone singing with Tokne Nonaka and Alfred Wolfsohn’s body-voice techniques with Daniel Prieto. He has also spent many years researching the non-verbal communication of the human voice and the yodel as communication form. With his idiosyncratic approach to overtone singing, Zehnder belongs to a new generation of vocalists who are providing new impulses for a form of singing long dominated by the western New Age movement. In 1996 he founded the project stimmhorn with wind player Balthasar Streiff, which went on to gain international recognition and several awards. He works as an actor-musician in theatre projects, as a singer in various musical groups and on solo projects in the field of theatre and performance (including “Genom Genesis” in Berlin and “Talk with my turntables” in Basle/Berlin/Lausanne). He has composed many pieces for film, television and radio and taught overtone singing, voice techniques and choral singing in Switzerland and abroad. At present Zehnder is working on his solo project “kraah,” with contributions by Georg Breinschmid, Thomas Weiss, and the casalQuartett." .