Biography
Sarah Buechi, born in 1981, grew up in Lucerne and Glarus. She studied jazz singing at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, graduating in 2007 with a master's degree in jazz performance and jazz pedagogy. She then studied Carnatic music and konnakol in Bangalore, South India, for a year and a half. From 2008 to 2012 she was teaching at the Bachelor vocal Jazz department of Newpark Music Centre in Dublin (today part of DCU) and lived in New York for ten months. From 2013 to 2015 she lived in London and studied at the Complete Vocal Institute in Copenhagen.
Since 2016 she has been living in Switzerland again with her husband, Irish painter Conor O'Donnell. Since September 2018, she has been a professor of jazz singing at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU).
As a singer and composer, she has been on stage for more than 15 years as both a bandleader and a side woman in high-profile national and international projects in Europe and beyond.
‘She makes the music of the future’ (Manfred Papst, NZZ)
‘Surprise of the Year 2022’ (SRF, Swiss Radio)
‘The courage to be different – Swiss vocalist Sarah Buechi incorporates influences from all over the world into her music, which breaks with convention and seeks to reconcile jazz and songwriting.’ (Christoph Wagner, Jazzthetik)
"... Buechi... has made a name for herself in recent years as a highly independent jazz singer who also incorporates elements of European classical music, Indian tradition and local folk music without resorting to the arbitrary or the complacent. (Manfred Papst, Jazztip of the week, NZZ)
"Moods-Aïda-Alliman Prize 2025"
