The quartet of pianist and composer Regula Haener exists since 2017. For the new project «Les Fleurs me racontent - Flowers Telling Me», the ensemble developed, over a period of time, the teamwork that allowed the existing compositions to fully evolve. The members of the band are from Bern and environs and play in varied formations in Switzerland and elsewhere.

Biography Regula Haener

Regula Haener (Piano, Compositions, Arrangement).
She was the first woman at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern to study piano under Joe Haider and Immanuel Brockhaus. She successfully completed her classical piano education  under Eke Mendez, Margie Wu, and also under Rada Petkova and Magdalena Schatzmann as part of the Schweizerischen Musikpägagogischen Verbandes SMPV.

She led her own jazz tentet over several years, writing music, and with Radio DRS2 produced a CD for which she received a prize for composition from the UBS Cultural Foundation. She played concerts with this formation in Switzerland and Germany and, on special occasions like the  «50 Years Art MuseumThun» and the «Festival Bern Women Composers» of WomenMusicForum CH.

She played in classical as well as jazz trio/quartet formations, was involved in a Latin project with singing, collaborated with a CD production in pop/jazz genre and accompanied theater performances.
In addition to playing the piano, she learned to play the alto saxophone, the violin and the diatonic accordion.
She teaches piano at the Musikschulen Bipperamt and Münchenbuchsee. 

Regula Haener is also educated in visual arts, dance and the therapeutic field and studied art history and architecture history at the University of Bern. For several years she was a freelancer in the visual arts, worked with Swiss artists and participated at exhibitions.