Christy Doran, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Christy Doran

Swiss musician

Date of Birth: 21-Jun-1949

Place of Birth: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Profession: guitarist, jazz guitarist, jazz musician, music pedagogue

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Christy Doran (born 1949) is a jazz guitarist born in Dublin, Ireland, and raised in Lucerne, Switzerland. Doran founded OM with Fredy Studer, Urs Leimgruber, and Bobby Burri in the 1970s; this ensemble recorded for ECM.
He and Studer also worked on a Jimi Hendrix tribute project in the 1990s.
Doran has worked with free jazz and avant-garde jazz musicians such as Marty Ehrlich, Robert Dick, Ray Anderson, Han Bennink, Albert Mangelsdorff, Louis Sclavis, Marilyn Mazur, Herb Robertson, John Wolf Brennan, Patrice Héral, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Phil Minton, Joe McPhee and Carla Bley.
Doran founded New Bag in 1997 and toured the world from 1998 to 2000 with the ensemble.
Doran has taught at the Musikhochschule Luzern since 1990.