CVs

Balthasar Streiff
Completed his basic studies at the Jazzschule Lucerne (trumpet and vocal studies) and art studies at the Freie Kunstklassen der Hochschule für Gestaltung, Basel. Currently, he is being educated in Baroque trumpet without finger holes at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with J.F. Madeuf. Intense examination of the alphorn as a music instrument as well as a cultic object lead Streiff to various fields such as fine arts, new music, theater, performance, movie, and literature. Moreover, Streiff's close collaboration with the instrument maker Otto Emmenegger set new highlights to modern alphorn making.
Various teaching and composition assignments, e.g. teaching assignment at the Conservatory Lucerne for Alphorn.
In 1996 Streiff founded the project stimmhorn together with the voice performer Christian Zehnder, which enjoys great recognition nationally and internationally.
Founding member of hornroh.

Heléne Berglund
Studied tuba at the Conservatory Gothenburg with Morten Agerup, later with Jens Björn and in Basel with Georg Monch. For several years she was a chamber and orchestra musician, among others at the opera houses in Stockholm and Gothenburg and with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. She was a member of Sirius Brass in Zurich and in Basel played with the basel sinfonietta and in the Ensemble Phoenix.
Already at an early stage Hélene Berglund received international awards as a tuba solist. She moved to Basel in 1997 and has been playing with hornroh since spring 2003.

Rudolf Linder
Studied trumpet at the Musik-Akademie Basel with Mario Populin and Edward H. Tarr. Linder was the principal founder of the basel sinfonietta and has been ist first trumpet player ever since. He has undergone various further educations, among others with Guy Touvron, Jerome Callet, James Stam and Malte Burba (Germany). He also plays engagements for solist concerts and chamber music, high trumpet in works of Bach as well as for contemporary music. Linder is lobbying for the advancement and performance of experimental and improvised music, multi-discipline concepts and new ways of trumpet and alphorn playing. He is a founding member of hornroh.

Michael Büttler
Grew up in Landshut (Bavaria). Trombone studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich and Frankfurt, then freelance musician with various orchestras focussing on contemporary music. Numerous works for trombone solo were premiered by him. He is currently engaging himself in the use of trombone in mixed ensembles, e.g. within the scope of his collaboration with the composer John Kenny ('The Alpha and the Omega' - Book of Revelation John the Baptist for trombone, organ and speaker).
Since 1989 Michael Büttler is a guest musician with the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, bass trombone player in Kaspar Ewald's Exorbitantem Kabinett and since 2006 a member of hornroh.
Besides, he teaches at the Musik-Akademie Basel, at the music school in Rheinfelden, and is also a teacher of the F.M. Alexander Technique at the Basler Schule für Alexander-Technik.

All four musicians live in Basel, Switzerland.