Hilaria Kramer

Hilaria Kramer (1 June 1967 in Frauenfeld) is a Swiss musician (trumpet, song, composition) in the modern jazz style.

Biography

Kramer began to play trumpet, when she was ten years old. From 1983, she had attended the vocational school department of Jazz school St. Gallen, where she studied under Benny Bailey and Art Lande. Afterwards she worked in Italy with Claudio Fasoli's quintet, with Gianluigi Trovesi. She performed with the musicians like Steve Lacy, Enrico Rava, Joe Henderson, Bob Mover, Sal Nistico, Chet Baker or Sangoma Everett. In 1988, she recorded her first album with her own quartet.[1] The album was published in the spring of 1989 (Hilaria Kramer Quartet, Unit Records) In 1991, she performed in the TV program Ladies in Jazz (in Rai Uno) for singers like Nina Simone and Carmen McRae. In the next years, she performed with Uli Scherer in Vienna and also made a tour around Europe. Her discography contains 18 albums.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "The Hilaria Kramer Quartet" (in German). Webseite Unit Records. Retrieved 2014-08-18.
  2. ↑ http://blog.suisa.ch/de/trompeterin-hilaria-kramer-erhaelt-den-jazzpreis-2014-der-fondation-suisa/
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