Mischa Käser was born in Zurich in 1959. He was already composing music at a very young age and wanted to discover the world in a musical form. He initially studied the guitar in Winterthur followed by composition with Hans-Ulrich Lehmann in Zürich and Roland Moser in Basel. He also studied the lute at the Schola Cantorum of Basel. In the 1990s, he began to accumulate a range of experience as a musician and composer for the theatre. He directed his own theatre and participated in various musical projects. He is a founding member of several ensembles
including the improvisation trio III-VII-XII in which he has performed as a vocalist. Mischa Käser works in Zurich as a guitar teacher, composer and musician. His work is essentially focused around vocal music and chamber music. He has won a number of awards such as the Zürcher Werkjahr in 1996, the Conrad-Ferdinand Meyer Prize in 1998, first prize for his orchestral work Ordouble at the Reine-Marie José Competition in 2005, first prize from the Society of Swiss Authors for his trans-disciplinary creations in Sounding Sculptures and finally the Canton of Zurich Composition Prize in 2004.
