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Ralph Zurmuhle is originally from Switzerland. He holds a Science of Law degree from the University of Zurich. He lived in Barcelona during the past ten years and moved to Tucson (Arizona) in April of 2009, where he currently resides. At the early age of five Ralph discovered his natural talent for the piano and began private lessons. He studied classical music and jazz until the age of twenty.

In 1986 he began to compose music for film, theater and multimedia. His most recent projects are:

All Secrets, feature film (Edinburgh, 2008),
L'horitzó, multimedia exhibit (Metrònom, Barcelona, and International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Almería, Spain, 2006),
Norró, documentary (National Spanish TV, 2006).

Ralph's 3 CDs composed for piano have been met with critical acclaim. His first solo CD for piano Between was released in 2000. He followed that initial release with Communion in 2003 and Our Mother in 2007.

He has performed many solo piano concerts throughout Spain, either playing his own repertoire or, on special occasions, purely improvising. In 2005 he composed the score for several classical silent movies by Buñuel, Clair, Man Ray, Duchamp etc. and performed live for the New music for classic silent films series at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM), one of Spain's most prestigious contemporary art museums.

For more information about Ralph's music and collaboration in film and multimedia projects, please visit his homepage

Tomas Wotan Suski, Polish film director and a personal friend, recently completed the GR-11, a hiking trail in the Spanish Pyrenees that begins at the Bay of Biscay and ends at Cap de Creus (approx. 840 km). His short video about this 42-day journey and my piano music, an interpretation of "Auld Lang Syne", are our farewell and a homage to Spain, its beauty and all the wonderful people we met there: