Bruno Spoerri

Bruno Alexander Spoerri  (born 16 August 1935) is a Swiss jazz and electronics musician.

Born in Zurich, he studied applied psychology in Basel and Zurich. He played the saxophone as a student, and toured with the Modern Jazz Group Freiburg in Germany and Switzerland. In the early 1960s, he worked as a psychologist and career counsellor. He experimented with electrified saxophone and published the album Voice of Taurus in 1978.

Discography

 * Jazz-Rock Experience (Deram, 1970)
 * Glückskugel (Finders Keepers Records, 1971–1980)
 * Container (1976)
 * Voice of Taurus (Gold Records/Inzec 1978)
 * AX+BY+CZ+D=0 (1983)
 * Zürich Tenors (FFO 1983, with Ernst Gerber, Fernando Fantini, Richard Lipiec, Umberto Foletti, Rolf Cizmek, Hans Brunner)
 * Albert Mangelsdorff - Bruno Spoerri - Christy Doran - Reto Weber: Shake, Shuttle and Blow (Enja, 1999)

Awards

 * Jazz Festival Zürich 1954: First Prize for Saxophone and Band
 * Jazz Festival Düsseldorf (Deutschland) 1956: Second Prize for Alto Saxophone with Modern Jazz Group Freiburg
 * Jazz Festival Zürich 1958: First Prize for Bigband
 * International Advertising Film Festival Cannes 1965: First Prize for TV-Spot Bic (Produktion Televico)
 * American TV and Radio Commercials Festival 1971: Clio for TV-Spot Riri
 * 1973 Filmpreis der Stadt Zürich
 * 1979 First prize in Ars Electronica Linz for Demonstration of Lyricon
 * 1992 Featured Guest Composer bei der International Computer Music Conference San José