Xavier
Bouvier
Head of the Ethnomusicology Program - Professor of Ethnomusicology, Analytical Approaches, and Ethnotheories
Xavier Bouvier holds a Composition Prize and a Diploma in Musical Culture from the Conservatoire de musique de Genève. After two years of studying mathematics at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, he dedicated himself to music.
At the Conservatoire de musique de Genève, he successively held the positions of Professor of Counterpoint and Musical Analysis, Head of the Library, and since 2001, Associate Dean of the administration.
From 2009 to 2018, he was the Coordinator of Education at the Haute école de musique de Genève (HEM). He is now a Full HES Professor, a member of the Executive Board, responsible for the HEM's MA in Ethnomusicology, and a project manager.
In addition to various special projects, his mandate includes representing the institution on the Music and Performing Arts Domain Council of the HES-SO and on the HES-SO Education Council by delegation from the Domain Head.
Former head of the Bologna group of the Swiss Conference of Higher Music Education Institutions, Xavier Bouvier has been a member of the Swiss Accreditation Council since January 2019, a joint body of the Confederation and the cantons for accreditation and quality assurance in the Swiss higher education landscape.
A specialist in music theory from a Western perspective and beyond, Xavier Bouvier teaches various courses in the Ethnomusicology program. He conducts a variety of research projects on 18th-century music theory, the issue of musical cultures, cultural diplomacy, and comparative education. He regularly participates in conferences and congresses in Europe and Asia.
Patrik Vincent
Dasen
Professor of Ethnomusicology, Master’s Research Seminar, World Music Workshop
Patrik Dasen graduated in ethnomusicology from the Université Paris X Nanterre (Maîtrise, 1999) and the Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis (Master 2, 2009), where he also completed a doctoral thesis in March 2020 entitled "Becoming and Being a Maker of Irish Bagpipes Uilleann Pipes: Between Deterritorialization and Heritage Preservation," under the supervision of Prof. Luc Charles-Dominique. His research focuses on the processes of transmission and heritage preservation of musical traditions.
He worked for ten years at the Ateliers d'ethnomusicologie de Genève as the head of educational activities and public relations. He also led, with a small team, the cataloging and digitization campaign of the Archives Internationales de Musique Populaire (AIMP, 2005-2011) by Constantin Brailoiu, which are now fully accessible at the Musée d'ethnographie de Genève thanks to this preservation effort. He has been teaching ethnomusicology and the sociology of contemporary music at the Haute école de musique de Genève since 2008.
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