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Thomas Gansch and Ed Partyka have known each other for ages. They met in 1999 at the Vienna Art Orchestra, and later Ed Partyka also played in Thomas Gansch’s band “Gansch & Roses.” “We’ve known each other for so long, but until now I’ve never had the opportunity to arrange his music for jazz orchestra. […]

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Thursday
17. March Thu
17. Mar

“To My Beloved Ones” concludes the CD trilogy with Steffen Schorn. The joint journey began seven years ago with “Eye of the Wind”, composed on Schorn’s train journey to Zurich for his first concert as musical director of the ZJO. Steffen Schorn once again pulls out all the stops that make his sound language and […]

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Thursday
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7. Apr

For the past ten years, Ed Partyka has been collaborating with and arranging music for outstanding Brazilian female vocalists. We are very pleased to invite the extraordinary Brazilian singer Viviane de Farias to Jazzclub Moods for this evening. She is from Ipanema and grew up in Brazil and Los Angeles. As a teenager, she received […]

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Season 2021/22

Dear audience The Zurich Jazz Orchestra is complete again. Ed Partyka has been at work since September, and we are very pleased to now introduce Jonas Inglin. Since October he is a permanent ZJO member as bass trombonist. He is a real jack-of-all-trades, also plays the sousaphone, has a master’s degree in music education, conducts […]
 
Zurich Jazz Orchestra & Steffen Schorn «Dedications»

The album «Dedications» is a worthy successor to «Three Pictures», released in 2018. Schorn’s compositions and thus the sound of the orchestra have, if at all possible, become even richer, more colorful, more differentiated, but at the same time more powerful. The album is proof of the fact that the sound spectrum and the possibilities […]
 
Ed Partyka to be the new musical director of the Zurich Jazz Orchestra

It was not an easy choice but we ultimately decided on American Ed Partyka. He will take over as musical director of the ZJO in the 2021/2022 season.

 
The Hallenstadion and the Zurich Jazz Orchestra: Solidarity among Zurich cultural institutions brings music back to the Hallenstadion.

The Zurich Jazz Orchestra consists of 18 musicians, all of them professionals with soloist quality, and has been playing in almost the same line-up since 2000. It skilfully varies between mainstream and avant-garde, orchestral big-band sound and explosive improvisations by the soloists. A mixture that carries you away. Zurich’s largest jazz ensemble has a hard […]
 
Enjoy Zurich Jazz Orchestra concerts online!

Stream live concerts from the Jazzcub Moods in Zurich and watch them anytime in the archive as video-on-demand.

 
Love, Linda – Das Leben der Mrs. Cole Porter

Linda Porter, scion of a very wealthy and distinguished family from Virginia, was married to the American composer and songwriter Cole Porter for 34 years. In the roughly three and a half decades of their life together, she lead a luxurious high society lifestyle as an elegant prominent socialite and muse and arranged the couple’s […]