Death of the Vaud conductor Michel Corboz
The Vaud conductor and composer Michel Corboz has died of heart failure at the age of 87 following an operation.
According to a statement from the canton of Vaud, Corboz studied singing and composition in Fribourg and completed his training in Geneva and Lisbon. He founded the Ensemble vocal de Lausanne and the Ensemble instrumental de Lausanne at a young age. He made a name for himself above all with performances of vocal works by composers such as Brahms, Mendelssohn, Rossini and Schubert.
In the 1960s, his recordings of Monteverdi's opera L 'Orfeo and the Magnificat by Johann Sebastian Bach. Corboz won the Grand Prix de la Fondation vaudoise pour la promotion et la création artistiques in 1990, the Prix de la Fondation Pierre et Louisa Meylan in 2001 and the Prix de la Ville de Lausanne in 2003.
