Christian Weber

Christian Weber is a Swiss double bassist, born in Zürich, who works mainly in free improvisation and jazz, as well as electro-acoustic improvised music. He lives in Zürich and has played with many musicians of the European improvising scene, among them Peter Kowald, Irène Schweizer, Evan Parker and John Butcher. Weber took up the double bass in 1990, studied in Graz from 1993 and later took lessons with Mark Dresser in New York. From 2000 to 2006 he ran the secretariat of the Workshop for Improvised Music (WIM) in Zürich.