Silvan Schmid is a Swiss trumpet player working across solo performance and collaborative projects, including work with: Tom Wheatley and Eddie Prévost, Mraolia with Timothée Quost, Alex Riva, Marina Tantanozi, Seijiro Murayama, Tizia Zimmermann, Lotus Eddé Khouri. In 2018, he released Silvan Schmid Quintet, At Gamut on Hat Hut Records, followed by his solo album Augmented Space in 2021. Schmid is also co-founder of the Zurich-based Gamut Kollektiv, a platform dedicated to exploratory artistic practices. In 2023, the collective launched LABYRINTH, a self-organized virtual playground curated by artists. That same year, Schmid was curator-in-residence at the Taktlos Festival Zürich. He is currently working with Eddie Prévost’s archive.
