Michael Fleiner

Piano | All of Switzerland

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Styles: Latin Jazz and Afro Cuban Music
My band is a septet. But I also play in a quartet.

Michael Fleiner, Ticino

Instrument: Piano
Phone: +41 (0)76 679 46 65
E-Mail: Send Mail
Website: https://septeto.net/

 

About me

Studied classical music for 4 years in Bogotá, Colombia, at the “Pontificia Universidad Javeriana” (1989 1993). Graduated as a jazz pianist in 2000 at the “Hochschule für Musik und Theater” in Bern, Switzerland.
Since 1999 he teaches piano and “workshops” at the Jazz School in Lausanne (CH) and since 2008 also at the Jazz School Lugano. During 7 years he plays with the jazz band “No Square” in Switzerland and abroad. Tours in South America, Europe and Asia. Performances at the “Festival Internacional Jazz Plaza” in Havana, Cuba; Nancy Jazzpulsation (F), “Y4Y-Music-Festival” Pattaya-Bangkok” Thailand, “Miedzynarodowy Festiwal Filmowy Mlode Kino Europejski” Poland, “Rhino-Jazz Festival” (F), Schaffhauser-, Cully- and Montreux Jazzfestivals.
CD recordings with various bands: Septeto Internacional, Fiebre Latina, No Square, Bitzius with writer Beat Sterchi, Corazón de Aldea. Girasol. Aline Sumi. Composes and arranges music for various bands, as well as for theatre and film.
In 1999 he founded his Afro-Cuban band Fiebre Latina, later Septeto Internacional.
With this band he has recorded several CDs and toured Europe and Latin America. Has played at important jazz festivals and in renowned jazz clubs: Euro Jazz (Mexico), Ajazzgo (Colombia), Technopolis Athens, Kayenn Jazz Festival (fr. Guayana), Music Center (Budapest), Rhinojazz (France), Jazz Plaza (Cuba), Blue Balls (Lucerne), BeJazz Festival (Bern), Jazz Festivals Pachuca (Mexico), Arthur’s (Ireland), Jazz Festival Chiasso, Moods (Zurich)…. etc.