Double bass
The double bass teaching at the Haute école de musique de Genève (HEM) is delivered at the sites in Geneva and Neuchâtel. Our two double bass classes are taught, respectively, by Mirella Vedeva in Neuchâtel and Alberto Boccini in Geneva. Committed educators and accomplished artists, our two professors listen to the students’ expectations and needs.
They support them in the acquisition of an instrumental technique at the highest level, while guiding them in the development of their own artistic sensibility. Internationally acclaimed double bass players are regularly invited to lead Masterclasses.
The HEM’s double bass classes offer a particularly stimulating learning environment, which makes the most of the cultural diversity of their students, who come from all over the world. The atmosphere is one that favours human contact and new friendships. Besides the individual classes, there is a large number and variety of opportunities to play in a group: orchestra sessions, chamber music, multi-disciplinary projects. Openings are offered that lead to contemporary music and creativity, but also to the music of the past.
Thanks to the close ties that the HEM maintains with the region’s professional ensembles, our students have the opportunity to play alongside musicians from renowned ensembles such as the Orchestre de la Suisse romande (OSR), the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève (OCG) or the Ensemble de musique contemporaine Contrechamps. The richness of the music scene in French-speaking Switzerland, the music-loving public and the numerous patrons mean that there are ample opportunities for engagement, to enrich their practice and develop their network.
If you are coming from a long way away and it is difficult to bring your instrument with you, the HEM makes available to its students a series of high-quality instruments, both for the solo repertoire and for the orchestra, including a baroque-mounted double bass from the 17th century.
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