Christian Wolfarth

Christian Wolfarth is a Swiss percussionist born in Zürich in 1960. He studied at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern, later working with percussionist Pierre Favre at the Lucerne Conservatory. His practice concentrates on the acoustic details of drums and cymbals, using restrained gesture, duration, silence and texture as compositional resources.

Wolfarth has worked with numerous European improvisers, including Urs Leimgruber, Jacques Demierre, Burkhard Beins, Ingar Zach, Paul Lovens and Evan Parker. He performs in solo and collaborative settings and has participated in projects spanning music, theatre, film and dance. His work often gives a central role to the changing resonance of cymbals and percussion surfaces.

On Creative Sources, Christian Wolfarth is credited on drumming (CS049), all about mimi (CS240) and Dracaena Draco DOUBLE CD (CS294).