Félix Stüssi grew up in the canton of Glarus in Switzerland und lives in Montréal, Canada, since 1998. Self-taught on jazz piano, he has later studied with some big names: Irène Schweizer, Markus Bischof, Christoph Baumann, Vince Benedetti, Art Lande, and Fred Hersch. In 1996 he won two prices, best band and best soloist, at the Zollikon Jazz Festival in Switzerland. A year later, he graduated from the University of Zürich with a masters in ethnomusicology. In 2005, he toured Switzerland with his Canadian quintet, giving a concert at Moods jazz club in Zürich. Félix Stüssi & Give me five won the prestigious Grand Prix de Jazz GM at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal in 2007. The two first recordings of the quintet, Give me five (Outside Music/Unit Records, 2007) and Baiji (Justin Time Rercords/EMI, 2008), were very well received on both sides of the Atlantic. Stüssi regularly returns to Europe where he has collaborated, among others, with Bruno Spoerri, saxophonist and pioneer of electronic music, trombonist Nils Wogram, and Jürg Wickihalder, saxophone. Wickihalder and Stüssi are members of the octet Sam Trümpy Memorial Jazz Coalition which has released a CD of the same name on the label Altrisuoni in November 2009. In Canada, Stüssi also writes for a very dynamic trio, Les Malcommodes, which he has formed with Daniel Lessard on bass and Pierre Tanguay on drums.