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Gisela Horat
Composer, pianist, bandleader and improvising musician in the free jazz and avant-garde field
Professionelle Tätigkeiten:
- Booking
- Improvisation
- Komposition
- Musik Live
- Piano
Pronomen:
She/her
Growing up in a small mountain village in Switzerland, embedded in a musical environment, the pianist Gisela Horat started her career with a traditional classic piano education. She developed over this period the desire to write and play her own compositions.
Gisela Horat's compositions are inspired by her own experiences and impressions. Through improvisation from the moment and mutual impulses, the music sounds different each time, oscillates between tranquillity and dynamics and moves somewhere between pop, jazz, improvisation and minimal music. But the music always tells stories, creates moods and excitement and leaves the audience room for his own pictures.
Apart from the influences of Eric Satie, Bill Evans, Enrico Pieranunzi, Esbjörn Svensson and Sylvie Courvoisier, the classical background of Gisela is also noticeable. This gives a harmonic frame to the sounds pictorial and lyrical playing and thus appealing to an audience that normally has no access to jazz music.
Excerpt from the review in Fono Forum 2/2024 about Vol.2: “…………. After that one is certain: Gisela Horat is the most impressive Helvetic keyboard artist after Irene Schweizer – a sensational discovery. “
Discography Gisela Horat:
Jazz im Duo (Maria Geiger, violin, Gisela Horat, piano), Begegnungen, coproduction DRS2, self-published 2002
Verkehrte Welt (Gisela Horat, Piano), self-published, 2013
Gisela Horat Trio Live (Gisela Horat, piano and composition, Simon Iten, bass, Samuel Büttiker, drums), self-published, 2015
Gisela Horat Trio (Gisela Horat, piano and composition, Simon Iten, bass, Samuel Büttiker, drums), Schächäbach, self-published, 2017
Gisela Horat Trio (Gisela Horat, piano and composition, Simon Iten, bass, Samuel Büttiker, drums), Warten, self-published, 2019
Gisela Horat Vol. 1 (Gisela Horat, piano and composition), self-published, 2020
Gisela Horat Trio (Gisela Horat, piano and composition, Simon Iten, bass, Samuel Büttiker, drums), “2020”, self-published, 2021
Gisela Horat Trio (Gisela Horat, piano and composition, Simon Iten, bass, Samuel Büttiker, drums), “erzählen”, self-published, 2023
Gisela Horat Vol. 2 (Gisela Horat, piano and composition), self-published, 2023
Gisela Horat Trio (Gisela Horat, piano and composition, Simon Iten, bass, Samuel Büttiker, drums), "Live in Leipzig", Unit Records, 2025