Curriculum Vitae

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)