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MUSIC

The Peace Project with Guo Gan
Vocalist
Borders and Bridges ensemble come together with Guo Gan around Peace. This project explores music as an instrument of Peace, a universal language beyond borders, and unites Guo Gan and Anna Grichting in their common interest in peace building and cultural diplomacy. The music explores our intimate and territorial borders and boundaries, and what can bring us Peace, what are our barriers to Peace, what is Peace? You can find out more about the project and the musicians here.

Guo Gan, Erhu violon
Anna Grichting Vocals, Texts, Spoken Word.
Frederick Folmer, Acoustic Bass
Michel Bastet, Piano
Thierry Hochstätter, Drums & Percussion

Borders & Bridges
Founder and Vocalist Performer. 2022
Borders & Bridges Ensemble is based in Geneva and composed of musicians who straddle the Border between Switzerland and France. Between The Lines is a project with Jazz, Ethno-music, Improvisation and spoken word, a music that crosses Borders exploring the Limits of our Intimate and Territorial Worlds and the Creative Margins of our Existence. You can listen to our music and watch a live performance for "Doctors Without Borders" in Geneva here, and learn more about the project here and the musicians at this link.

Anna Grichting Vocals, Texts, Spoken Word.
Frederick Folmer, Acoustic Bass
Michel Bastet, Piano
Thierry Hochstätter, Drums & Percussion
Anna Jazz & Roses
Vocalist and Founder
A jazz ensemble based in Geneva Switzerland with Anna Grichting on Vocals, Michel Bastet on Piano, Frederic Folmer on Acoustic Bass and Beatrice Graf on drums. The musicians interpret jazz standards, blues, pop, and groove, with their own compositions, and traditional and ancestral tunes. Find out more about the musicians and watch some recordings here and on facebook. For bookings please contact us.
Desert Bridges
Co-Founder and Vocalist Peformer 2011 - present
Desert Bridges is founded by Dr. Anna Grichting and Cheo Jeffery Allen Solder, musician and author of One4deBrovah's Desert Bridges spans East and West, bringing sounds from the Swiss Alps, the Arabian Desert and the New York Jazz scene with Musicians, poets and storytellers from Qatar, Switzerland, Egypt, Syria, Africa and America weaving Songs of Unity and Peace. The performance was held at the Qatar National Theatre in April 2013 to mark the opening of the Swiss Embassy in Qatar. The project was funded and supported by the Ministry of Culture Qatar and the Embassy of Switzerland in Qatar. The CD and DVD were released in 2013. You can listen to and buy the CD here.
You can watch the concert on vimeo here and download the brochure here. Press information from the Swiss Embassy in Qatar on this link.

Cheo Jeffery Allenn Solder, Saxophone, Flute, Kalimba, Spoken Word; Anna Grichting, Vocals; Amal, Vocals (Qatar); Eliana Burki, Alphorn; Shadi Alashoudh, Rababa, Oud (Syria-Qatar); Beatrice Graf, Drums; Santosh Kulkarni, Tablas, (India-Qatar)Jon Sass, Tuba (USA); Frank Wilkins, Piano (USA); George Oro, Percussions (Syria-Qatar); Taoufik Mirkhan, Qanun (Syria-Qatar), Abeer Soleiman, Storyteller, Egypt.
Sufi Moon
Co-Founder and Vocalist Performer 2000-2002
Spiritual Pakistani Qawwali from the Sufi Shrines meets archaic Swiss jazzy alphorns around the many spheres and territories of the Moon. Sufi Moon is a fusion of Qawwali Music and Alphorns, composed of three swiss jazz musicians and two pakistani qawwals. One of the more interesting musical performances at the Sufi Soul World Music Festival in Lahore, Pakistan, the Sufi Moon project explores the spiritual symbolism of the moon, which Anna Grichting sees as "a universal symbol as well as the symbol of Islam - the crescent." The Swiss group was first exposed to subcontinental Sufi philosophy three years ago and "Sufi Moon" was created with Pakistani qawwal Sher Miandad Khan and tabla nawaz, Waris Ali Balu Khan, whom they met at the first Sufi Soul Festival in 2000. The fusion has also been performed during the Urs of Baba Faridat Pakpattan (the yearly celebrations that take place in the sufi shrine on the birth date of the saint) and at venues across Switzerland and Pakistan. You can find out more on this link and listen to and buy the CD here.

Anna Grichting, Vocals, Texts, Spoken Word
Shermiand Dad Khan, Vocals, Qawwali
Jean-Jacques Pedretti, Trombone, Alphorn, Shell
Robbert Morgenthaler, Trombone, Alphorns, Didgeridoo
Warisali Baloo Khan, Tablas
Altri Suoni Records
Border Meetings
Co-Founder and Vocalist Performer. 1999
An explorative journey through physical and psychological boundaries through musical improvisations and spoken words. Free expression and resistance, music and memory, instant creation and liberty of improvisation, word and language; Border Meetings explores the concepts of frontiers and limits in their physical and material expression . Original lyrics and traditional songs, compositions and improvisations, quotations taken from literature and philosophical works form this musical fresque which lead from the deep inner self to distant lands. You can listen to and buy the CD here.

Anna Grichting, Vocals, Texts, Spoken Word
Jean-Jacques Pedretti, Trombone, Alphorn, Shell
Martin Schutz, Cello, electronics
Lucas Niggli, Drums
Jean Keraudren, Sound
Altri Suoni Records
Songs Trio
Vocalist
Songs Trio plays blues and jazz standards and includes compositions by Glenn Ferris, Prince, Tom Waits and Jean-Jacques Pedretti. Recorded Live at La Sarraz, Switzerland.

Anna Grichting, Vocals
Jean-Jacque Pedretti, Trombone
Michel Bastet, Piano
Jean Keraudren, Sound
Recorded Live at La Sarraz, Vaud