Pedagogy

Teaching music is a creative and enriching profession, and a rare craft, one that opens aesthetic and emotional doors through social connections.

The training in pedagogy offered at the Haute école de musique de Genève (HEM) is aimed at developing your ability to adapt to each teaching situation, whether it is individual or collective. Thus, our students learn to ask themselves questions about their own experiences as pupils, to question their ideas about music teaching, to transition from their identity as a student to the identity of a teacher. We invite you to consider learning as taking precedence over teaching.

Whether you have a predisposition for it or not, teaching is a profession that one can learn. It requires you to be able to know how to articulate multiple types of knowledge and competencies in didactics, ethics, the history of trends in education, methodology, philosophy, psychology, sociology, etc. Also, the concepts studied as part of the training come from all these disciplines.

In parallel to this, the analysis of activity (live or by video) is a central activity that allows for a direct line to be drawn between theory and practice, in order to construct basic professional gestures but also build the capability to refresh your teaching throughout your life.

Teachers

Olivier Rogg

Coordinator of the Music in Schools Orientation, Professor of Modern Improvisation, Transcreations, Ensemble Practice of Contemporary Music

Pianist, composer, and teacher, Olivier Rogg has practiced improvisation from a young age and has accumulated diverse experiences in all areas of contemporary music. In 1983, he obtained his Master of Music Diploma from the Conservatory of Geneva and won the 1st prize for jazz improvisation at the Lyon Festival as well as the Rochette Prize for organ improvisation in Geneva. A member of several groups, including the renowned collective Piano Seven, he has recorded around twenty CDs and performed in Switzerland, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Lebanon, Egypt, Brazil, the United States, China, Thailand, and Singapore. He composes for various ensembles, from piano duos—notably with Alaskan Lee Maddeford—to the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, for which he wrote "Météorythmes" in 1999 and "Cyclomotion" in 2010 with his colleague and friend Philippe Genevay. With his wife Cécile Polin Rogg and lyricist Janry Varnel, he has co-written more than 150 songs, mostly intended for children's choirs. Deeply involved in music education in public schools, Olivier Rogg teaches at Collège du Renard and the Haute école de musique de Genève, where he is the coordinator of the "Music in Schools" program. Learn more about Olivier Rogg

Carine Tripet Lievre

Responsibles of pedagogical programs - Professor of Education Sciences

Holder of a PhD in Social and Political Sciences, specializing in Education Sciences, Carine Tripet is also a musician. Coming from a jazz background but specialized in world vocal music, she is active in Valais where her musical projects revolve around immigration issues and Valaisan heritage. She received the Musique Pro Valais cultural scholarship for the period 2014-2017 with her project ViaVallesia. Formerly a professor at the Haute Ecole Pédagogique du Valais, where she led several programs, she also taught Applied Education Sciences in Music Education for six years at HEMU. The content of her courses is decidedly interdisciplinary, drawing from various relevant disciplines (including, but not limited to: didactics, sociology, developmental psychology, neuroscience, ethics, law), to establish a solid network of concepts and notions that enable young teachers to self-analyze their practice. Her research focuses on the construction of the professional identity of music teachers in connection with cultural democracy. Since 2022, she has been coordinating the pedagogy program at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève.