"The Swiss, Swedish dual citizen Sebastian Strinning was born on June 1, 1985, and grew up in Othmarsingen (AG / CH). At age 9, he received the first saxophone lessons. When he started his first band at the age of 16, and spent hours jamming in a bandroom, he began to practice the music more seriously. Since then he has been involved in a variety of projects, and has toured several times in Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, France and Spain.

From 2006 to 2013 he studies music at the Lucerne University of Music. He took u. a. Urs Leimgruber, Gerry Hemingway, Hans Koch, John Voirol and Fredrik Ljungkvist teachings, while at the same time he was increasingly concerned with free improvisation and contemporary jazz. In 2011 he received a scholarship from the Friedl - Wald Foundation and went on a search for clues for a year in Stockholm. He worked extensively on Swedish folk music and worked closely with free improvising musicians of the Stockholm scene. Since 2013 he also organizes concerts in the Mullbau, and plays with Gerry Hemingway and Manuel Troller in the Trio Tree Ear. In 2014 he won the CS Jazzförderpreis with his solo project and, together with Marc Unternährer, curates the new series Tuesdays_Jazz at the Kleintheater Luzern.

Sebastian Strinning plays with Gerry Hemingway, Lauren Newton, Joachim Badenhorst, Christoph Baumann, Hämi Hämmerli, Gabriela Friedli, Christian Weber, Marc Unternährer, Hanspeter Pfammatter, Markus Lauterburg, Thomas KJ Mejer, Manuel Troller, Audrey Lauro, Hugo Antunes and many more together."

"Manuel Troller (*1986, Lucerne, Switzerland), guitarist and composer, is actively working in diverse musical genres. Since 2006, he plays and composes with the internationally active Band Schnellertollermeier - who plays music without compromises, ranging from modern composition, minimal music and improv to brute rock music - but feels just as home in Pop. Through pushing the boundaries on his instrument with preparations, extended techniques, sound manipulation and a fine sense for the moment, he became one of the most demanded guitar players in Switzerland. Manuel Troller studied with musicians such as Frank Möbus, Christy Doran and Fred Frith at the School of Music Lucerne, Switzerland.

He has collaborated with Sophie Hunger, Gerry Hemingway, Nik Bärtsch, Julian Sartorius, Stephan Eicher, Merz, Ensemble for New Music Zurich, Christian Weber, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Hans Koch, Michael Fehr, Christoph Erb among others.

Recent Solo performances include Café OTO London, Bad Bonn Kilbi, B-Sides Festival (Featured Artist), Bee-Flat Berne, Südpol Lucerne, Klappfon Basel as well as double bills with Marc Ribot, Lee Ranaldo, Tetuzi Akiyama & Alan Licht among others.

Other Festivals and concerts include Montreux Jazz Festival, Glastonbury Festival, Olympia Paris, Haldern Pop Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Schauspielhaus Zurich, Bad Bonn Kilbi, Enjoy Jazz Festival Mannheim, Internationale Theaterhaus Jazztage Stuttgart, 12 Points Festival, Les Eurockéennes Belfort, Jazzfestival Skopje, EFG Jazz Festival London, The Vortex London, Swiss Diagonales Jazz, Jazzfestival Schaffhausen etc."

"Gerry Hemingway has led a number of quartet and quintets since the mid 1980's. In addition he has been a member of a wide array of long standing collaborative groups including Brew with Reggie Workman and Miya Masaoka, the GRH trio with Georg Graewe and Ernst Reijseger, the WHO trio with Michel Wintsch and Bänz Oester, as well as numerous duo projects with Thomas Lehn, John Butcher, Ellery Eskelin, Marilyn Crispell, and others. Mr. Hemingway is a Guggenheim fellow and has received numerous commissions for chamber and orchestral works as well as being noted for his innovative and multifaceted work as a solo performer which began in 1974. He was a member of the Anthony Braxton Quartet between 1983 and 1994 and is also well known for his collaborations with some of the world's most outstanding improvisers and composers including Evan Parker, Cecil Taylor, Mark Dresser, Anthony Davis, Derek Bailey, Leo Smith and many others. He currently lives in Switzerland having joined the faculty of the Hochschule Luzern in 2009."