Thomas Limacher

After courses in latin percussion at the School of Jazz in Zurich, in New York and in Havanna, Limacher studied classical percussion at the academy of music in Lucerne with Erwin Bucher and Pierre Favre. He received the bachelor of music with special honor. He performs in concerts with different formations ranging from rock-music to classical music. He teaches percussion at the school of music of Lucerne.

Christof Estermann

Raphael Christen

After a classical percussion education at the academy of music in Lucerne with Erwin Bucher and Pierre Favre, he received the bachelor of music with honor. Christen war also honored with a scholarship of the Fridel-Wald-Stiftung. He then concentrated on Maribaphon, which he studied at the Toho school of music, Tokio with Keiko Abe. He took Masterclasses with D. Brown (USA) and N.J. Zivkovic (Germany). He has been a soloist at the IMF Lucerne. Apart from teaching percussion at various schools in Zug, Christen is a guest-Professor at the academy of music in Lucerne.

Hans Patrick Surek

He started his professional music education at the School of Jazz in Basel with Urs Wiesner and Andreas Lüscher. Afterwards he studied classical percussion at the academy of music in Lucerne with Erwin Bucher. He received the bachelor of music with honor. He has regular assignement with different formations and orchestras. Surek teaches percussion at several music academies.