Stephan Thelen

Born May 12th 1959 in Santa Rosa, California, USA. He lived and worked in Zürich, Switzerland from 1980 to 2009 as a musician, composer, producer and mathematician. He has two sons (Diego, born 1984 and Sancho, born 1987) and now lives with his wife Katharina and her daughter Anna (born 1999) in Warth, Thurgau.

Education: Studies in classical guitar; Guitar Craft Seminars with Robert Fripp (founder and guitarist of King Crimson) during the 1990s; studied mathematics at the University of Zürich (PHD in 1990)

Musical activities: plays guitar and electronics in various bands and ensembles in and around Zürich that concentrate on music at the fringes of rock, jazz, experimental and classical music. His main rock outlet is Radio Osaka (with singer Andi Czech, bassist Christian Kuntner and drummer Benno Kaiser). Instrumental bands included License to Chill, Broken Symmetry and Root Down. Many CD Productions (No No Diet Bang, Peter Schärli Sextet, etc.). Many Theatre-, Dance- und Filmproductions.

Since 2004 he has been concentrating more and more on compositions for modern Classical Chamber Music (mainly Soprano, piano and strings).

Contact: mail "at" stephanthelen.com