New director for the Basel music academies
The University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland has elected Georges Starobinski to head the FHNW School of Music.
In a press release dated January 21, the Basel University of Music and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis announced that Georges Starobinski will take over as director from September 2013. Together, the two institutions form the FHNW School of Music/Music Academy Basel, which, in addition to the "classical" artistic and music education programs, also includes the jazz, research and development departments as well as the Electronic Studio Basel.
Georges Starobinski trained as a pianist, musicologist and conductor in Geneva and Munich. He then spent three years as a répétiteur with conducting duties at the Theater Basel and later lectured at the University of Geneva. He has been a full professor of musicology at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) since 2004. He is a regular lecturer and researcher at the Collège des Humanités de l'Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Lausanne and at the University of Geneva. As a sought-after accompanist, he regularly gives concerts with renowned singers. In recent years, he has been invited to give lectures, concerts and lecture-recitals at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel. Georges Starobinski has lived with his family in Basel for many years.
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