Manuel Engel is a composer, arranger, educator, producer, pianist and recipient of a Chrysler Jazz Award / Billboard World Song Contest Winner / Excellence in Songwriting Award / IndieSuisse Album of the Year Award / Swiss Music Charts 1st place (The Ghost Orchestra)
Has attended the Swiss Jazz School in Bern and the New School University in NYC - living nearly a decade in NYC, US - worked as a freelance musician
Toured in Europe (Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Lithuania) including performances at Festivals such as: Montreux Jazzfestival (Chrysler Jazz Awards), Stars of Sounds Openair Festival, Pod Ring Festival, Vilnius Jazzfestival, WE Festival, Schaffhauser Jazzfestival, Festival Chorus des Hauts-de-Seine, Festival m4music, Jazzwerkstatt Festival, Openair St. Gallen, Lakelive Festival and many more. U.S. performances in New York, USA: Jazz Standard, Smalls, Knitting Factory, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, B.B. King (Showcase for MBK Entertainment), BAM at Fort Greene Park, Village Soul Festival, Top Events of Switzerland at Lincoln Center (Kaplan Penthouse) and Washington DC (John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts)
Collaborations:
Meta Marie Louise / Puts Marie / Binney_Engel / StudeYeah / Henry Strongbox
Recorded / performed with Chico Freeman, Richie Beirach, Hans Koch, Robert Morgenthaler, Karsh Kale, Lucien Dubuis, Kevin Chesham, Pepe Lienhard, George Garzone, Lionel Friedli, Doug Weiss, Efrem Jenkins, Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson, Hamid Drake, William Parker, David Binney, Craig Holiday Haynes, Ainsley Burrows and many others
Has attended the Swiss Jazz School in Bern and the New School University in NYC - living nearly a decade in NYC, US - worked as a freelance musician
Toured in Europe (Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Lithuania) including performances at Festivals such as: Montreux Jazzfestival (Chrysler Jazz Awards), Stars of Sounds Openair Festival, Pod Ring Festival, Vilnius Jazzfestival, WE Festival, Schaffhauser Jazzfestival, Festival Chorus des Hauts-de-Seine, Festival m4music, Jazzwerkstatt Festival, Openair St. Gallen, Lakelive Festival and many more. U.S. performances in New York, USA: Jazz Standard, Smalls, Knitting Factory, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, B.B. King (Showcase for MBK Entertainment), BAM at Fort Greene Park, Village Soul Festival, Top Events of Switzerland at Lincoln Center (Kaplan Penthouse) and Washington DC (John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts)
Collaborations:
Meta Marie Louise / Puts Marie / Binney_Engel / StudeYeah / Henry Strongbox
Recorded / performed with Chico Freeman, Richie Beirach, Hans Koch, Robert Morgenthaler, Karsh Kale, Lucien Dubuis, Kevin Chesham, Pepe Lienhard, George Garzone, Lionel Friedli, Doug Weiss, Efrem Jenkins, Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson, Hamid Drake, William Parker, David Binney, Craig Holiday Haynes, Ainsley Burrows and many others