The artist Ivo Jeschofnik was born to a German mother and an Austrian father in Switzerland, in the canton of St. Gallen. His musical talent was already visible and audible in his childhood. He took piano lessons for several years at the youth music school in his hometown, also took individual singing lessons and sang in various choirs in the St. Gallen area.
After successfully completing his banking apprenticeship, he worked as a DJ, producing his own mixes in his own style, but initially purely as a hobby. After he realized that a job in the bank was not really his calling, but rather the music, entertainment and the "freedom" that came with it, he worked as a courier and chauffeur in addition to diligently practicing and working on his piano playing. He traveled mainly in the city of Zurich and throughout the country.
He performed as a DJ at a funk and metal event, in the Zurich Oberland Kulti Wetzikon, at a medium-sized heavy metal concert in central Switzerland and at smaller private parties. After that, he also performed more and more frequently as a rapper, mostly at weddings and birthday parties in the cantons of Zurich, St. Gallen and Fribourg. In the course of his personal development, he also worked intensively on his piano playing, which ultimately led to his first professional engagements in the Swiss Mittelland, a small Protestant church and a permanent engagement in a renowned piano bar (Solothurn).
A few years later, he worked successfully as a pianist in more upscale hotels such as the Hilton, Storchen and on Tessinerplatz and also in a wellness hotel, and Ivo Jeschofnik has been playing an important role as a solo pianist in a "Christmas show" at a well-known Christmas market in Zurich for many years, and he was there in 2015. After spending several years as a "street musician" and touring large parts of Switzerland, Austria and Germany, he is now back near the "border triangle" between Austria, Germany and Switzerland, where he is once again taking on permanent engagements. Since December 2024, he has also been under contract with Lee Loop Media, his first contract for the distribution of his music in the classical music sector. We are excited about his upcoming compositions "If you want to reach people's hearts, then play from the heart." His motto is genuine and authentic.
