Conservatoire de musique de Genève
Geneva

François Bartholoni, a music financier and generous patron, provided Geneva with the first Conservatory established in Switzerland, which opened its doors in September 1835.
During its first year of operation, the institution, which included Franz Liszt among its teachers, taught at the Casino de Saint-Pierre, which it occupied until 1858, before joining the famous purpose-built building on Place Neuve.
Bartholoni's goal was to develop musical taste and practice in Geneva through quality basic education; however, from the end of the nineteenth century, the educational programme increased remarkably. The virtuosity classes were created in 1900 and continued to grow, led by renowned teachers.
However, despite the focus on studies that had become professional – in 1971, the Institution was reorganised into two sections, the School of Music (also including drama classes) and the Conservatoire Supérieur, the latter integrating, from 2009, the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland – the Geneva Conservatory will always remain faithful to its primary mission which, from the same year 2009, is carried out in close collaboration with the other schools of the Confederation of Geneva Schools of Music and provides the youth of our canton with a musical and theatrical training of high quality that is constantly evolving.
Join the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande at the Conservatoire de musique de Genève for a small chamber music program! Recently restored, the Conservatory has a superb hall - the Franz Liszt Hall - with state-of-the-art acoustics.
how to get here ?
bus/tram stop
Place de Neuve : Tram 12 | 17 | 18, Bus 3 | 5 | 20 | 36
public parking
Uni-Dufour
Programme
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Next concert
Divertimento
Sunday
08.10.2023
11h00 — Conservatoire de musique de Genève
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ernest Chausson
October
Sun 08 11 h 00 Conservatoire de musique de Genève
Divertimento
Caroline Baeriswyl | Florin Moldoveanu | Cristian Zimmerman | Emmanuel Morel | Léonard Frey-Maibach | Christian Chamorel
December
Sun 10 11 h 00 Conservatoire de musique de Genève
Quintets for Piano and Winds
Simon Sommerhalder | Dmitry Rasul-Kareyev | Afonso Venturieri | Jean-Pierre Berry | Ivani Venturieri
February
Sun 11 11 h 00 Conservatoire de musique de Genève
Brilliant Brass
Julia Heirich | Isabelle Bourgeois | Olivier Bombrun | Giuliano Sommerhalder | Gérard Métrailler | Claude-Alain Barmaz | Laurent Fabre | Matteo de Luca | Alexandre Faure | Vincent Métrailler | Andrea Bandini | Laurent Fouqueray | Ross Knight
April
Sun 28 11 h 00 Conservatoire de musique de Genève
Quartet and Quintet by Grieg and Brahms
Martin Fröst | Linda Bärlund | Claire Dassesse | Catherine Soris Orban | Lionel Cottet
June
Sun 09 11 h 00 Conservatoire de musique de Genève
String octets
Sidonie Bougamont | Jonas Erni | Yesong Jeong | Lisa Schatzman | Alexander Besa | Jarita Ng | Heiner Reich | Hilmar Schweizer