- Claude Nobs
Claude Nobs (born in Montreux, Switzerland, 4 February 1936) is the founder and general manager of the famous Montreux Jazz Festival. He was mentioned in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water" as Funky Claude. Nobs also can be heard introducing Jethro Tull on the CD release of their live album Bursting Out. - Michael Manring
Michael Manring (born June 1960 in Washington, D.C.) is an electric bassist from the San Francisco Bay Area (Northern California). In addition to a long tenure in the 1980's as house bassist for Windham Hill Records, Manring has recorded with Spastic Ink, Michael Hedges, Alex Skolnick (in the bands Skol-Patrol and Attention Deficit, also featuring Tim Alexander from Primus), Larry Kassin, Tom Darter, Steve Morse, David Cullen, Alex de Grassi, … - Darol Anger
Darol Anger is an American violinist, born in 1953. - Mike Marshall
Mike Marshall is a mandolin player and has been an instrumental part of new acoustic music for the past 25 years. He has performed and recorded with many musicians in a variety of styles, including bluegrass, classical, jazz and Brazilian music. In addition to several instruments in the mandolin family, Marshall also plays the guitar and violin. Marshall has recorded and toured with other contemporary acoustic musicians such as David Grisman, Tony Rice, Mark O'Connor, … - Andy Narell
Andy Narell, is a musician and composer specializing in the steelpan. He was born in New York City and moved to California in his teens. He took up the steelpan at a very young age in Queens, New York. His father Murray Narell was a social worker who brought steel pan to New York city in an attempt to get kids off the streets, out of gangs, and into steel bands. He has performed with the Caribbean Jazz Project, Montreux, Sakésho, and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. - David Richards
David Richards is a record producer. In the Mountain Studios in Montreux, owned by the rock band Queen, he engineered and co-produced many albums by Queen, David Bowie and other bands. Richards also played keyboards on some records. - Barbara Higbie
Pianist Barbara Higbie (b. 1956) is a folk, smooth jazz, pop and fusion singer-songwriter, noted for her highly melodic, smooth jazz piano performances. She has played music in the San Francisco Bay Area since the early 1980s. An early performer on the Windham Hill record label she formed and played with the group Montreux along with Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, Todd Phillips, and Michael Manring. - Eero Koivistoinen
Eero Koivistoinen (born 13 January 1946) is a Finnish jazz musician and saxophone player, who started his career in the mid-1960s. Koivistoinen has worked as a musician, composer, arranger, conductor, producer and educator. He first heard jazz from the records his sailor brother had brought in from his travels. As youngster Koivistoinen studied classical violin, saxophone and also composition at the Sibelius Academy, later on jazz at Berklee Music School in Boston. - Patrick Juvet
Patrick Juvet (born August 21 1950, in Montreux, Switzerland) is a former model turned singer-songwriter, with a string of hit records in France. While his early career was focused on making pop records, he found international success as a disco music performer in the latter half of the 1970s. In Saint-Tropez he met French music producer Eddie Barclay, who allowed him to record a first single in 1971. He wrote "Le Lundi au soleil" sung by Claude François. - Milcho Leviev
Milcho Leviev (December 19, 1937, Plovdiv, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian composer, arranger, jazz performer and pianist. Milcho Leviev graduated from the State Academy of Music in 1960 majoring in Composition under Professor Pancho Vladigerov and in Piano under Professor Andrei Stoyanov. As a student, he won the second prize at the International Competition in Vienna for his Toccatina for piano. His professional development as a composer began at the Drama Theatre in Plovdiv. - Amy Tan
Amy Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and what it means to grow up as a first generation Asian American. In 1993, Tan's adaptation of her most popular fiction work, "The Joy Luck Club", became a commercially successful film. She has written several other books, including "The Kitchen God's Wife", "The Hundred Secret Senses", and "The Bonesetter's Daughter", … - Harri Stojka
Harri Stojka (* 22 July 1957 in Vienna) is a viennese jazz guitarist. He comes from the diasporic Lovara-Roma dynasty of the Bagareschtschi clan. In the 80's he played in Montreux with the likes of Larry Coryell and Birelli Lagrene. Nowadays he enjoys playing Gypsy jazz which is close to his roots. - Laurent Dufaux
Laurent Dufaux (born May 20, 1969 in Montreux, Switzerland) was a professional road cyclist from 1991 - 2003. - Chuck Greenberg
Chuck Greenberg (March 25,1950 - 1995) was a musical artist, composer and producer born in Chicago, Illinois. Although beginning his musical career in the Midwest, he first found wide recognition for his many talents after relocating to Los Angeles, California in 1978. Greenberg's initial success as a producer and artist was marked by his series of recordings with Shadowfax, with Alex DeGrassi and Will Ackerman, beginning in 1982 on the Windham Hill label. - Lionel Rogg
Lionel Rogg (b. Geneva, 1936) is a Swiss organist and teacher of musical theory who recorded the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Rogg showed exceptional musical gifts at an early age. At 15 he took charge of the Geneva St Boniface organ, and later, at the Conservatory of Geneva, he studied under Pierre Segond (a pupil of Marcel Dupre). He obtained degrees in Harmony, Counterpoint and Fugue, and won scholarships, organ and piano prizes, … - Léon Walras
Marie-Esprit-Léon Walras (December 16, 1834 in Évreux, France - January 5, 1910 in Clarens, near Montreux, Switzerland) was a French economist, considered by Joseph Schumpeter as "the greatest of all economists". He was a mathematical economist associated with the creation of the general equilibrium theory. - Walther Bensemann
Walther Bensemann (13 January 1873, Berlin, Germany - 14 November 1934, Montreux, Switzerland) was a German pioneer of football and founder of the country's major sports publication Kicker. Bensemann was the son of a Jewish banker. During his time at private school in Montreux he learned about the new sport of football. When he moved to Karlsruhe in order to complete his school-leavers' exam, he began to spread the sport around Germany. - Douglas Jardine
Douglas Robert Jardine (23 October 1900, Bombay - 18 June 1958, Montreux) was a British cricketer and captain of the controversial 1932-33 Bodyline tour of Australia. He captained the England side from 1931 to 1933-34. Jardine was born in India of Scottish descent. His parents were Malcolm Robert Jardine, who himself played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Middlesex, and Alison Moir. Douglas Jardine was educated at Horris Hill School, Newbury, Berkshire, … - Christine Sefolosha
Christine Sefolosha (1955-) is a Swiss painter. Born in Montreux, Sefolosha has created works that have been shown at numerous one person and group exhibitions. She lived in South Africa for nine years. Christine is the mother of Thabo Sefolosha, member of the Chicago Bulls basketball club. She founded the studio "Quai 1" in 1999. - Cristina Braga
Cristina Braga [WWW.CRISTINABRAGA.COM] Cristina Braga is an internationally known Brazilian harpist. Working with various styles of both Classical and Popular music, she has released a total of ten recorded works, two of them also released in the USA. She also performs regularly as soloist with many Symphony Orchestras, has won several prizes and is currently principal harpist at the Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro Symphony Orchestra. - Frank Frost Abbott
Frank Frost Abbott (March 27, 1860 - July 23, 1924) was an American classical scholar. Born in Redding, Connecticut, he taught at the University of Chicago, then moved to Princeton University in 1907. He died in Montreux, Switzerland. In addition to various works on Roman history and government, several of which have been reprinted, he also translated Alberico Gentili's "Hispanicae Advocationis Libri Dvo" ("Two Books of Advocacy in the Service of Spain"). - Jody Mayfield
Jody Mayfield (born February 26, 1962) is a critically-acclaimed composer and musician with roots in Atlanta, Georgia. A native of Atlanta, he studied at Clark Atlanta University. Mayfield had had the privilege of performing with musical greats such as Dizzy Gillespie at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, as well as James Llyod of Pieces of A Dream, Frank Foster, Grover Washington, Jr., Mary Lou Williams, Illinois Jacquet and The Tony Rich Project. - Josef Rosensaft
Josef Rosensaft (January 15, 1911 - September 11, 1975 was a Holocaust survivor who led the community of Jewish displaced persons (Sh'erit ha-Pletah through the establishment of a Central Committee of Liberated Jews that first served the interests of the refugees in Bergen-Belsen DP camp and then DP camps throughout the entire British sector. Rosensaft was born to an affluent scrap-metal dealer in Bedzin in Poland and was in his youth active in the Zionist Labor Movement. - Dirk Smorenberg
Dirk Smorenberg was a Dutch painter. Smorenberg was born in Alkmaar, The Netherlands. He started painting in 1906 on a professional base. He is considered as one of the only Dutch Art Deco painters. He travelled to St. Ives as an artist/painter in the beginning of the World War I. He also worked in Switserland not far from Montreux and in 1910/1911 in the USA. There he exhibited with Piet Mondriaan in New York. - Charlotte Niese
Charlotte Niese was a German writer, poet and teacher. She was born in Burg on the island of Fehmarn, Schleswig-Holstein (then under the direct rule of the Danish king), and her father was the local pastor who later became director of a seminary in Eckernförde. Her mother was Benedicte Marie Niese (born Matthiesen). Charlotte passed her exams as a teacher in Eckernförde and became a tutor in what was now since 1866 the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein, … - Leandro Marconi
Leandro Marconi, born 23 April 1834 in Warsaw (then in Congress Poland), died 8 October 1919 in Montreux was a Polish architect, active mainly in Warsaw. His father was the architect Enrico Marconi, his mother Małgorzata ( neé Heiton came from a Scottish family settled in Poland. - Jola Sigmond
Jola Sigmond (born September 2, 1943) is a Swedish architect SAR. He is best known as Sweden's or "Scandinavia's most intelligent man". He was born in Budapest, Hungary, and came to Sweden as a fugitive in 1967 where he studied architecture at Lund University in Lund. He is the chairman and owner of the swedish company IQ Art. Currently he is residing in Montreux, Switzerland. - Bezalel Rakow
Rabbi Bezalel Rakow was an orthodox rabbi who headed Gateshead’s Jewish community. He was the chair of the Council of Torah Sages of Agudas Yisroel of Great Britain. Born in Frankfurt, Germany into a distinguished rabbinical family, Bezalel Rakow was a direct descendant of Rabbi Yomtov Lipman Heller, (author of the "Tosafos Yomtov" commentary on the Mishnah). His father, Rabbi Yomtov Lipman Rakow, a pupil of the great Volozhin yeshiva, … - George S. Mercouris
George S. Mercouris was a Greek politician who founded the Greek National Socialist Party. Born in Athens, he studied politics and economics there, Paris, and London. Elected as parliamentary deputy in 1915, he served until 1929. He was Minister for Food and Supply in the Petros Protopapadakis cabinet in 1921. He became Minister for the National Economy in 1926. He served as the Greek delegate to the League of Nations in 1927. - Darol Anger
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Howard D. Palefsky Managing Director howard@mepvc.com Mr. Palefsky has 35 years of experience as an entrepreneur, manager and investor in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. Mr. Palefsky has been a General Partner/Managing Member of Montreux since 2002 and was a Venture Partner of Montreux from 1999 to 2002. - Daniel K. Turner III
Daniel K. Turner III Managing Director dan@mepvc.com Mr. Turner has 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur, operating manager and venture capitalist. He founded Montreux and has been a General Partner/Managing Member since 1993. Immediately prior to founding Montreux, Mr. Turner was a Principal in the Turnaround Group for Berkeley International. - Montreux
Born in Montreux,Switzerland, love tuna:p;P and My Favourite teams are Arsenal nd A.C. Milan! FoRzA Italia! 3ash il mafias:P;P My best friends are: Ali, Bo 3ajra;p, Nabeel, Qattano, 5alood, Bader, Eszter and Lujain... - Komi Missodé
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John is currently Chairman of the Board, Packard Children's Hospital, and Director of Stanford Hospital and Clinics. - John J. Savarese
John J. Savarese , M.D. Managing Director Dr. Savarese has 10 years of experience as a physician, manager and investor in the life sciences industry. Dr. Savarese is a Managing Director at Montreux Equity Partners. Prior to joining Montreux, Dr. Savarese served as Director of Business Development and Marketing with the entrepreneurial team at NeurogesX, a Montreux portfolio company which is developing breakthrough products for the treatment of pain. - Edmund H. Shea Jr
Mr. Shea brings over 30 years of successful venture capital investment experience to Montreux. Mr. Shea was the founder of J.F. Shea Co.'s venture capital group and manages the J.F. Shea investment funds. J.F. Shea has been an early investor in many of Silicon Valley's most successful technology companies. ©2007 Montreux Equity Partners. All Rights Reserved. Home Sitemap
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