MUSIC CREATOR:

• Composer
• Swiss Diatonic Accordion (contemporary/traditional)
• Producer / Initiator / part of various recordings, projects and networks
• giving concerts for over 25 years
• Lectureships at various educational institutions since 2003, jury/expert
• Artistic Researcher, part of various networks

GROUPS

• Marcel Oetiker Trio (contemporary)
• Kapelle Purzelbaum (traditional swiss folk)
• Marcel Oetiker Solo / Duo

(current projects see [WORK] )

AWARDS

• SWISS MUSIC PRIZE (2014)
• CULTURAL PROMOTION PRIZE (Canton Schwyz 2013)
• NICO KAUFMANN AWARD (Zurich 2011)
• RECOGNITION AWARD (Altendorf 1995)

STUDIES

• Studies at the University of Berne (Research, Musicology, Art History)
  et al Works about John Cage
• MASTER’s degree (with honors) Compositions&Theory, SwissDiatonicAccordion, Research
  MA-Thesis: Mediaphonic – Theory of (un)limited possibilities 
• BACHELOR’s degree Composition, SwissDiatonicAccordion
  BA-Thesis: SwissDiatonicAccordion – Jazz possibilities – an instrumental expedition
• Premier majoring in SwissDiatonicAccordion, also in the degree programms SwissFolkmusic, and Jazz as a SwissDiatonicAccordionist
• CAS SwissFolkmusic
• Various instruments at classical music schools and/or autodidactic

NETWORKS

• OM (improvisation)
• forum.SCHWYZEROERGELI.com
• SUISA
• Swiss Perform
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik e.V.
• Schweizerische Musikforschende Gesellschaft
• VSV

RESEARCH (scientific)

• High Performance Teams in music&economy (2014; BUA/UB, interdisciplinary)
• Alban Berg: Recomposition Lyric Suite (2011; BUA Research / 11th Annual Congress of the association of german-speaking Music Theory)