Iwan Jenny

Following his classical percussion studies (from 2000 to 2005 with Erwin Bucher at what was then the Lucerne University of Music), Iwan Jenny devoted himself intensively to the drum kit, timpani and baroque timpani. In 2006–2007, he completed a further course of study with Franz Lang at the State University of Music in Trossingen, Germany.

A highlight of his training was a study visit to the renowned Drummers Collective in New York, which Iwan Jenny was awarded in the form of a scholarship thanks to his victory in the Swiss Drummers and Percussionists Competition in 2002.

Iwan Jenny played as principal percussionist with the Musikkollegium Winterthur from 2007 to 2012 and has always maintained a busy freelance concert career in various ensembles, including the Swiss Brass Consort (drums) and the 21st Century Orchestra (timpani). In January 2012, he successfully passed the solo timpani audition for the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra.

Iwan Jenny is deeply committed to supporting young percussionists in Central Switzerland and has been teaching at the Lucerne School of Music for several years. In the summer of 2025, he was appointed to a teaching post at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – Music.

Iwan Jenny is a multiple award winner (Prix Rotary, Friedl Wald Foundation Basel, Axelle and Max Koch Cultural Foundation Lucerne, winner of the drum kit category at the SDPW Altishofen 2002).

It is actually Fasnacht that is to blame for the fact that, from a very early age, Iwan Jenny had nothing but drumming on his mind. He still has the Fasnacht bug, and since 2018 has been the drum major of the Näbelhüüler Äbike.