Artist

Swiss/Dutch singer and composer Susanne Abbuehl studied jazz voice with Rachel Gould and Jeanne Lee at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, North Indian classical singing with Prabha Atre and composition with Diderik Wagenaar.

Susanne Abbuehl has been an ECM Recording Artist since 2001 and has toured worldwide.

Susanne Abbuehl won the EUROPEAN MUSICIAN 2017 award from the Académie du jazz.

The award is given for the totality of the artistic career and recent activities.

Previous awards and prizes have included an EDISON AWARD (Dutch grammy) for “April” (2002) and the GRAND PRIX DU DISQUE DE L’ACADEMIE CHARLES CROS for “Princess” (2017).

In 2016 she was one of the recipients of the SWISS MUSIC PRIZE.

Her production „Der Gaukler Tag“, a radio play for Swiss national radio SRF, was nominated for the PRIX MARULIC in 2013.

Susanne Abbuehl is professor for jazz voice, ensemble and composition for and with words at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Lucerne as well as at the Haute Ecole de Musique HEMU in Lausanne.

Her current field of research is perfect pitch in jazz education in which she is conducting the second project at HEMU Lausanne throughout 2018.

Discover her website here.