Silvan Jeger
Double-bass, cello, guitar-player, vocalist, composer, organiser
Born 1985 in Olten, lives in Zurich and Berlin. Studies in double bass at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Besides his work as a double bass player, Silvan Jeger also plays the guitar, the electric bass and the cello and performs as a singer. He is broadly interested in Jazz and free improvisation, in music for theater pieces as well as in experimental pop and ambient music. He is part of „DAY&TAXI“, the „Reto Suhner quartet“ and „One Tfu“. Jeger is co-leading the trio „Uassyn“ and the duo „cold voodoo“. Furthermore, he is performing as „Kingdom Behauptung“, a conceptual pop-band/lecutre performance and releases solo recordings under the name of „publish/perish“.
Theater music for „Tell/Zahhak“ of Mass&Fieber in 2012/13 in Altdorf, Zürich and Teheran. Theater music for „Die Wand“, Theater Aachen in 2016 and music and performance for CHURCH OF GOLD, Schwabach. Silvan Jeger teaches in Dietikon and Frauenfeld double bass, electric bass and band lessons and is a board member of the Werkstatt für improvisierte Musik (WIM) Zurich. He was artist-in-residence in the Zurich music club „moods“ in october 2017. Since autumn 2018 MA studies in “transdisciplinarity in the arts” at the Zurich University of the Arts with main focuses in irony, showing/pointing and a knowledge production of the arts.