Julien Zufferey
Professor of Violin
- Portrait
Heir to three of the most prestigious international violin schools (Hungarian, Russian, and Jewish-American), violinist Julien Zufferey offers a productive synthesis of these diverse approaches, both in technique and musical interpretation.
During this course, students will undertake in-depth work to find the keys that will enable them to make as conscious a musical choice as possible, and benefit from discovering their own interpretative path.
Regularly invited to serve on juries for national and international competitions (Il Piccolo Violino Magico, Concorso Internazionale Città di Villafranca), and a respected expert for pre-professional classes in French-speaking Switzerland, Julien Zufferey demonstrates his fruitful pedagogical skills within the Lausanne musical institutions (Conservatory and HEMu). He guides young, talented violinists through intensive programs and pre-professional classes to admission into a Haute École. His students are annually winners of national and international competitions; notably, he received an honorary diploma for having the highest number of awarded students across all categories during the 2017 edition of the Concorso Internazionale A. Salieri.
His role as an assistant to Svetlana Makarova at HEMu in Lausanne further broadens his pedagogical contribution by supporting the professional development of young graduates and strengthening his didactic ties with this exceptional professor.
This course is intended for particularly gifted young violinists who aspire to join HEMu and pursue a professional musical career or to refine a competition program.
In addition to numerous appearances on the Swiss stage, he performs throughout Europe as well as in the USA, Israel, and Turkey. Julien Zufferey is a founding member of the Trio Nota Bene, with which he has been performing on the international stage for almost twenty years, collaborating with artists such as Shmuel Ashkenasi, Ilya Gringolts, Pierre Amoyal, Shlomo Mintz, Nobuko Imai, Gérard Caussé, Christoph Schiller, Jürg Dähler, Silvia Simionescu, Brigitte Fournier, and Malin Hartelius.
He plays a violin by Vincenzo Trusiano Panormo (1734-1813), generously provided by a Swiss patron.
