Murat Cevik
Born in 1979, he grew up in Istanbul and began studying music at the State Conservatory of the Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul in the subject of flute with Prof. Mükerrem Berk.

After completing his music studies at the Marmara University in Istanbul with a teaching diploma, he went to Switzerland in 2003 to continue his music studies. After three years of study in the flute class of the renowned flutist Matthias Ziegler, he received his concert diploma with distinction. His rapidly growing interest in jazz led him to the jazz department of the Zurich University of Music, where he studied with saxophonist Christoph Grab and graduated with a jazz teaching diploma in 2009. As part of his further education, he attended master classes with Aurelle Nicolet, William Bennett, Gulsen Tatu and a chamber music course with Clifford Benson.

In addition to classical and jazz music, he is also intensively involved with free improvisation and ethnic types of music. His concert activities are correspondingly varied; numerous solo and chamber music concerts, new music projects with renowned ensembles in Switzerland, jazz projects with various bands, CD recordings...He has been a flutist with the Ensemble Tzara since its foundation.

David Sautter
grew up in Zurich, studied at the Zurich Conservatory with Walter Feybli and then at the Basel Music Academy with Oscar Ghiglia. Graduated with a soloist's diploma. Further training in various master classes with Manuel Barrueco, among others.

David Sautter works as a guitarist, arranger and composer and performs as a soloist and chamber musician. With his wife, the singer Letizia Fiorenza, he founded the duo "I Cantimbanchi" in 1987, which specialised in tracking down and arranging southern Italian folk songs. In 1990 David Sautter and Letizia Fiorenza receive a one-year scholarship at the Swiss Institute in Rome.

In 1998/99 the project "David's Caramel" (songs composed by David Sautter with Italian lyrics by Letizia Fiorenza) is created, in 2000 the children's programme Adelheid, which is awarded the "goldige Chrönli".

In 2004 I Cantimbanchi receive a work grant from the "Cassinelli-Vogel-Stiftung" for their "many years of artistic commitment to southern Italian folk music".