Tzupati Orchestra ALBUM

Tzupati Orchestra

Berne, CH

The Tzupati Orchestra made its debut in Bern in October 2018 and has since then grazed countless stages around the country. More than a hundred concerts to their credit, they have performed at the Winterthurer Musikfestwochen, at the Fête des Vignerons in Vevey or at the Nouveau Monde in Fribourg.



A varied repertoire of traditional music from the East has been enriched with Catalan folk melodies as well as numerous original compositions by the group members. The unorthodox mix of timbres between flute, clarinet and trombone comes to sing intoxicating tunes, firmly supported by a crazy rhythm section. The six members with multiple nationalities never save their energy, to make you dance until the early morning.

Rebecca Minten

Berne, CH

Rebecca was born in Basel and grew up in Geneva in a half-German, half-Italian family. She began her Bachelor's degree in 2018 at the Bern University of the Arts in the class of Ernesto Molinari, which she graduated with distinction in June 2021. She is currently studying in Master Performance at the same school, where she is pursuing a specialization in (contra)bass clarinet.



Rebecca is fully committed to contemporary music, interdisciplinary creation, and free improvisation. She is also involved in jazz and Balkan/Klezmer music. She has co-founded various groups: the Tzupati Orchestra (Balkan/Klezmer), NoRest! (free improvisation quintet), FÃœNMT (contemporary music), Duo Edaphos (contrabass clarinet duo) and IPSO (interdisciplinary collective).



She also participates in festivals such as the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, the Winterthurer Musikfestwochen, Klangspuren Schwaz, Mixtur Festival and the Musikfestival Bern, where she's been leading the project inSENSé in 2022. She took part in the summer academy of the Ensemble Modern Frankfurt 2021 (IEMA) and has been artist-in-residence at the Biennale Mediterraneo Archipelago in Palermo in 2022.



She received scholarships from Hirschmann Stiftung (2022) and Fondation Nicati-de-Luze (2022-23).

Ludmilla Mercier

Berne, CH

Ludmilla Mercier (b.1997) is a Swiss-based performer, composer, and installation artist. Her work is based on the meeting point between music theatre, visual effects, movements, and multimedia. It includes projections, samplers, electronics effects, and the use of personally crafted objects. She often creates in collaboration with other artists, like dancers, choreographers, sound artists, mathematicians, comedians, or philosophers.



She won the first price at the Swiss music competition for youth musicians 2017, the price of l’Heure bleu Festival 2020, the first price at the FrauMünsterhof21 Competition 2021 and the Open Call MusikfestivalBern 2021.



She obtained the scholarship of Nicati-De-Luze and is supported by this association for the year 2021-2022.



Ludmilla Mercier studied with Natasa Maric, Arturo Coralles and Sara Boesch in Geneva from 2007 to 2017. From 2017 to 2019, she acquired her bachelor at the University of the Arts Bern in Classical Flute Music with Prof. Christian Stüdler. Since 2019 she studies with her main teachers Leopold Dick and Simon Steen-Andersen at the University of the Arts Bern as well as Prof. Daniel Ott at the University of the Arts in Berlin.

Pere Molines Tur

Berne, CH

Born in 1994 in the city of Calp, Spain, Pere Molines is a trombonist working in Switzerland. He began to play music from an early age, mostly playing in the different brass bands in his city and the surrounding villages. At the age of eight, he began his studies at Professional Conservatory José Pérez Barcelo in Benidorm and in 2012, he starts his studies of classical music at the Conservatory Music Superior Oscar Espla, in Alicante. During this period, he had the opportunity to study with different teachers and to attend master classes given by famous international teachers. At the end of his studies, he decides to specialize in Jazz and ensemble conducting. From 2012 to 2018, in parallel with his studies, he was teaching trombone, musical language and conducting for young musician orchestras at the schools of music by Calp, Castell de Castells and Nucia. Today, Pere Molines continues his studies in Switzerland. He is studying trombone in Jazz specialization at the Bern University of Arts.

Lea Gasser

Lausanne, CH

Lea Gasser is an accordionist and composer. After a Bachelor's degree in classical music at the Bern University of the Arts (2011-14) under the direction of Teodoro Anzellotti, she turned to jazz. From 2019-2021 she followed a Master Performer/Composer Jazz at the HEMU of Lausanne in which she studied alongside Denis Croisonnier, Matthieu Michel, Philip Henzi, Jacques Demierre or Vinz Vonlanthen.



Passionate about a wide variety of styles, Lea plays jazz, classical and contemporary music, original music, klezmer music, as well as tango and musette in different formations. She is a member of the Thomas Dürst Trio since 2019 with whom she releases the album "Other Songs" in 2021. In 2020 she sets up the Lea Gasser 5tet where she shapes her own compositions. The release of the album "L'Heure Bleue" is planned for December 2022. In the same period, she created the duo OXEON with the singer Sylvie Klijn. The duo was selected for the semi-finals of the Lavaux classique 2021 competition. She co-created the duo Lysra, a sound project of Impro Libre, with the drummer Samuel Boutros in 2020. She also plays in the Tzupati Orchestra, a klezmer and gipsy band.





As a freelance musician and composer, she performs in ad hoc groups, accompanies choirs, works with artists, writers, actors and film directors and performs as a soloist on various occasions. In the 2021/22 season she works with Andrea Pfähler and Urs Bihler on the theatre production Früher wird alles besser. In 2022/23, she is a musician/actor in the anarchist and feminist play Les dix petites anarchistes, a production of the Cie Mezza-Luna, directed by Julie Burnier.



She also performs as a soloist in various programs and participates in projects by contemporary composers. In 2022, she was invited by the improvisation duo Stucki&Steiner for a collaboration.

Ulysse Loup

Berne, CH

Born in 1997 in Neuchâtel, Ulysse Loup is a electric bassist and double bassist in the Swiss jazz scene.



As a son of two actors, he was exposed to the performance arts at a very early age. At the age of ten he received his first musical education at l'Ecole de Pratique Instrumental in Geneva. At fifteen he entered the pre-college at the Conservatoire Populaire de musique-AMR, where he studied bass, harmony, rhythm, solfege, ensemble playing and attended masterclasses given by world-renowned musicians. During this time, he started to perform in the Geneva jazz scene and experimented with playing in different styles in many different occasions. In 2018, he was chosen to represent his school at the Cortona Jazz Festival in Italy.



Ulysse currently lives in Bern where he continues his studies at the Bern University of the Arts. He performs not only throughout Switzerland, but all of Europe. Besides being a versatile musician, playing music from the Balkans to free jazz, he also works with actors in music-theatre crossovers.