Jean-Christophe Geiser

Jean-Christophe Geiser - organist

Person from Switzerland

Genres: pipe organ

About Jean-Christophe Geiser

Jean-Christophe Geiser (born 20 November 1964 in Biel) is a Swiss jurist and musician, organist and organ teacher. Biography: Jean-Christophe Geiser was born in 1965 in Biel, to a mother from the Jura. He grew up in Cortébert, in the Bernese Jura, and attended school and studied music in Biel. He started playing the piano at the age of 6, then the organ at the age of 12. He studied musicology and law at the University of Bern, where he was admitted to the bar in 1989. He has been a legal adviser at the Federal Office of Justice since 1991. He was a member of the Swiss delegation to the Group of States against Corruption and, since 1994, responsible for the Jura Question. He is married and has one daughter. He has lived in Lausanne since the early 1990s. Music career: He studied music at the Bern Conservatory, where he graduated in 1989 with a piano diploma in the class of Otto Seger and a soloist diploma with honors in the organ class of Heinrich Gurtner. He twice won the Göhner Foundation Prize, which allowed him to perfect his skills in Paris with François-Henri Houbart and to take various acting courses. In 1991, he was appointed titular organist of Lausanne Cathedral, where he succeeds André Luy. He has also been professor of organ at the Haute École de musique de Lausanne since 1993 and dean of the professional organ and harpsichord classes. He is also the artistic director of the Société des concerts de la Cathédrale. He is also pursuing a concert career on the international scene as he has had the opportunity to perform in more than thirty countries, including Germany, Sweden, Belgium, France, the United States, England, Russia, Poland and Brazil. He has made numerous recordings for various Swiss radio stations, but also for DeutschlandRadio, Südwestfunk, Radio Russia and for the labels VDE-GALLO, IFO-Verlag and FNAC-Musique. He was responsible for the design of the new Fisk organ at Lausanne Cathedral, which was inaugurated in December 2003. He is a member of the Jura Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts.

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