gambrinus jazz plus - Töbi Tobler, Patrick Sommer & Reto Suhner

Töbi Tobler, Patrick Sommer & Reto Suhner
Musical warmth and confidence in sonorous lightness

WORLD • JAZZ │ With their new collaboration, Töbi Tobler, Patrick Sommer and Reto Suhner create a sound universe full of warmth, cheerfulness and hope. Their music combines deep roots with playful openness and invites listeners to discover the lightness in the heavy – a comforting and inspiring soundscape for difficult times.

Töbi Tobler – hammered dulcimer
Patrick Sommer – guembri, double bass, electric bass, tuba, arrangement & production
Reto Suhner – zurna, ney, bansuri, xiao, kaval, duduk, theremin, clarinets, saxophones, flutes & reed trumpet

Töbi Tobler is one of Switzerland's best-known hammered dulcimer players and a pioneer in combining folk music and jazz. His compositions are characterised by their joyfulness and emotional depth.

Patrick Sommer is active as a bassist, producer and arranger in numerous projects. His music moves between jazz, world music and experimental sound art.

Reto Suhner is one of Switzerland's most versatile woodwind players. With his penchant for unusual instruments and timbres, he shapes the unmistakable character of this trio.

Enjoy a 2-course menu at Bistro St.Gallen before the concert.