Various alpenhorns, büchel, tuba, trumpet & related instruments

Born in Baden [CH] 1963, now lives in Basle. After music studies at the Jazz school in Lucerne [trumpet and singing], he switched to the Free Art Classes at the Basel School of Design and graduated with a degree in the field of Sculpture. Since then has dedicated himself to explorations of the interface between space and sound. In 1996, and together with voice performer Christian Zehnder, he founded the by now internationally known project "stimmhorn", winner of numerous awards. From experiments with the alpenhorn as a musical instrument as well as a cult object, Streiff has wandered through many fields of fine arts, theatre, performance, film, literature, and different styles of music; the project sanshi/Purpurberg is a record of his encounter with Japanese chamber music. Together with the alpenhorn quartet hornroh he is engaged in generating a new tradition in Swiss music. Since 1998 he has been occupied in various composition projects and pedagogical work.