After exposure to new genres on study trips to Asia (Java/Bali), he focuses on Gamelan and body music. The multi-instrumentalist plays various wind instruments (trumpet, flugelhorn, blues harp, alphorn), percussion instruments (Hang, Dousn’ Goni) and solos in bands and orchestras (Playin’ Tachles, Trumpet & Organ, Blasorchester, Military Music, Alphorn Trio, Bigband, Groove Move). Experiences from his many concert trips in Switzerland (including the Jazz Festival Montreux), Germany, France and Russia, influence his own compositions and improvisations (Jazz-Funk-Experimental Band Projects/Choir Music). In addition to his freelance musical activities, Christoph Gisin works as a motivated music pedagogue at a secondary school and, together with his partner, serves as a choir leader in the Basel region.

Delving even deeper, between 2001 and 2003, he took courses at the Jazz Club Basel and afterwards, continued at the Hochschule für Musik in Lucerne (Jazz Department), where he studied with, and was influenced by, musicians such as Nat Su, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Frank Möbus and others. Here he finished his studies in „Music Pedagogy/Musician“ in 2007, and in „Performance“ in 2008. Both on and off stage, the passionate guitarist is intensely involved with Instrumental Rock and other music styles. With much elan, he enjoys teaching young students at the Music Schools of Liestal and Gelterkinden.

After studying jazz piano at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern under Joe Haider, he worked at the Theater Basel and at the Jazz Schule Basel. Christian Gutfleisch has played numerous club gigs and festival concerts, together with personalities such as Michael Heitzler (klezmer), Thomas Moeckel, Rachel Gould, Nina Bradlin (Jazz), Picason (Salsa). Working with the David Kleins Selma Project, he played at the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival where he accompanied Thomas D., Sarah Connor, Stefanie Kloß, and Reinhard Mey. He can be heard on the CD, „Eine Frau“ (A Woman), for which Jasmin Tabatabai won a Jazz Echo. In the past few years, he has become increasingly more involved in music arrangement and production, spanning genres from traditional church music to various dance music styles, even including Current Pop. Christian Gutfleisch feels most at home with Modern Jazz and in World Music.