A voice with such urgency and persuasiveness is a rare find! Andrina Bollinger (*1991) invites you into her house, her garden, her world full of thoughts and secrets. In this world, the honest, down-to-earth presence of the Swiss Singer meets an eruptive mixture of music, poetry and performance, telling stories from her deepest inner self: personal changes, psychological research and lyrics inspired by nature and fine arts.

In 2022, Andrina released her debut-album "Secret Seed", published by Mouthwatering Records. A stunning singer-songwriter opus full of folk, indie, electronica, and jazz inflections, the music was self-produced by Bollinger in collaboration with David Odlum (Sam Smith, Glen Hansard and others).
In October 2023, Andrina put out a new five-track EP called "Pleasure & Pain" .

Andrina played at renowned international festivals and venues such as the Montreux Jazz Festival, Café de la Danse Paris, M4Music Festival Zurich, Winterthurer Musikfestwochen, Istituto Svizzero Roma, Cully Jazz Festival, Dampfzentrale Bern and at Moods Zurich to name a few. She received three Carte Blanches from the Moods Club in Zurich 2022, Bee-Flat Club in Bern 2020 and the Residency “Live in Vevey” 2019.

Besides her own projects, she collaborated with French Avant-Trompet player Erik Truffaz on his album "Lune Rouge" 2019 (Warner Parlophone France).

In 2023, Andrina worked as musical directior for the piece "das Leben des Galileo Galilei" at Schauspielhaus Zurich as well as was responsible for the live music on stage.
In 2021, Andrina wrote & produced the soundtrack for the Swiss documentary "Harald Naegeli - der Sprayer von Zürich" and recorded the German off-voice through the movie.

Press-Reviews

«Mit ausserordentlicher Schärfe kreiert die Sängerin, Komponistin und Multi-Instrumentalistin Andrina Bollinger ihre persönliche Form der musikalischen Interpunktion. Ob mit ihrem Soloprojekt oder in diversen Kollaborationen – mittles der virtuosen Präzision, mit der sie ihre Stimme einsetzt, ihrer Freude an rhythmischen Experimenten sowie ihrer erfrischenden Präsenz, bereichert sie uns mit einer aussergewöhnlichen und kontrastreichen Performance.» 
Musiker*innenrat Moods Zürich

"BADASS!!!"
Bobby Sparks at the ZKB Jazzpreis 2020 (St. Vincent, Snarky Puppy, Marcus Miller and more...)

«Eine Stimme mit einer solchen Dringlichkeit und Überzeugungskraft wie die von Bollinger findet man in der Schweiz, in der Zurückhaltung eine Tugend ist, nur selten. Erfrischend unverfroren, unverschämt, frech, verspielt und unhelvetisch extrovertiert. Ausserirdisch? Wie ein Wesen von einem anderen Stern, oder Planeten.» 
Stefan Künzli, Aargauer Zeitung

Education

Andrina holds a Master Degree of Arts in Music Pedagogy & Performance (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), 2015) where she studied with  Marianne Racine, Andreas Schaerer, Lisette Spinnler, Chris Wiesendanger & Joy Frempong.

She took Workshops and Masterclasses with Jay Clayton (USA), Bugge Wesseltoft (NOR), Christian Zehnder (CH), Rose Ann RAD Kirsch (USA) & Becca Stevens (USA) just to name a few.

Since 2018, she’s taking technical singing lessons with the Argentinian Singer Eugenia Visconti in Berlin

Teaching

From 2019-2022, Andrina taught bachelor and master-students at the WIAM Winterthurer Institut für aktuelle Musik in singing lessons and sightreading classes and is currently teaching at MKZ Musikschule Konservatorium Zurich. She's regularly invited to give Masterclasses at Art Schools in Switzerland.

Prices/Grants

2024/2025 Part of the Programme "Fast Forward" by Pro Helvetia

2024-2026 3 year support of the Canton of Zurich

2022 Carte Blanche Moods Zurich

2021 Freiburger Leiter Förderpreis of the IKF Freiburg for Andrina Bollinger solo

2020 FINALE ZKB Jazzpreis Andrina Bollinger solo

2020 Förderpreis of the canton of Zurich for her project Eclecta

2020 Carte Blanche Bee-Flat Bern

2019 Carte Blanche "Live in Vevey"

2018 "Get Going" prize of the Fondation SUISA for her Project Eclecta

2018 "Atelier-Stipendium Berlin" from the City of Zurich, that allowed her to focus on her creative work from August 2018 until February 2019 and to train her voice with the Argentinean singer Eugenia Visconti.

2013 Scholarship from the Hirschmann-Stiftung for outstanding performance in her Bachelor-Studies

Selected Performance

Collaborations

Andrina was active in the Performance-Pop-Duo Eclecta from 2010-2020. Eclecta released their Debut-Album „A symmetry“ in May 2016, the second album "Open Other Doors" followed in October 2020. Both albums met with great approval in the national and international Jazz/Pop Scene and has led to cooperation with the Berlin based Booking Agency Handshake-Booking. Eclecta played shows in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Russia/Siberia.

With her Art Pop Duo JPTR, she released a song plus videoclip on every fullmoon in 2016. Their debut-album was released in April 2017, followed by two EPs in 2018 and 2021. JPTR played at renowned festivals like Schaffhauser Jazzfestival, M4Music Zurich and Pod Ring Biel and got featured in international blogs like XLR8R (US, FAMEmagazine (UK), Brooklyn Radio (US), Kaltblut (DE), Intro Mag (DE) and many more.
JPTR’s Videoclip for their song "Master Babe“ was nominated for „Best Swiss Video-Clip 2016“ and was screened at the „Solothurner-Filmtage". 

In Mai 2018, June 2019 & May 2020 Andrina collaborated with LAB junges Theater Zürich on three theatre plays at Theater Neumarkt, Kulturmarkt and Zirkusquartier in Zurich. In "Träumt ein Wal vom Menschsein“, Andrina got asked to write the music & create the sound design for it as well as be part of the performance.