New lecturers at the Lucerne School of Music

Carolina Müller will be the new lecturer for the vocal major "Groove and Electronics" from the fall semester 2024. Internationally successful as Miss C-Line and winner of the New Generation Jazz Lab Contest in 2021, she has released three albums and collaborated with artists such as Casey Benjamin and Jeff Ballard. She is musically and technically proficient in music production, studio recording, mixing, live show production and composition.

As of the 2024/25 academic year Jakob Pilgram He succeeded Pascal Maier as the new artistic director of the Collegium Musicum and lecturer for vocal ensemble. As a sought-after soloist in Germany and abroad, he has sung with conductors such as Thomas Hengelbrock, Philippe Herreweghe, Ton Koopman, Andrea Marcon and Hans-Christoph Rademann and has acquired a sound knowledge of historical performance practice. In 2005, he founded the professional larynx vocal ensemble, where he acts as musical director and conductor. He is also a member of the Artistic Board of the Balthasar Neumann Choir and co-director of its Singer's Academy. Since 2004, he and Mischa Sutter have formed a song duo that has won prizes at international competitions.

Also starting in the new academic year, the multi-award-winning Michael Bach Lecturer in brass band conducting. He has conducted the Bürgermusik Lucerne brass band since 2009. He has been principal conductor of the Grimethorpe Colliery Band (GB) since 2023 and is a regular guest conductor with bands such as the Eikanger-Bjorsvik Band (NO) and the Fodens Band (GB). He acts as a juror at major national and international competitions and runs the Saanenland-Obersimmental Music School.

Marco Amherd He studied conducting, organ/church music (concert, teaching and soloist diploma) and economics in Zurich, Freiburg im Breisgau and Toulouse. He is currently the artistic director of the Swiss Vocal Consort. His flair for unusual sounds is evident in his collaboration with the Vokalensemble Zürich West and the Junges Kammerchor Zürich. He has won awards at numerous international competitions. Marco Amherd is currently also the artistic director of the Davos Festival.