JEAN-CHRISTOPHE GEISER’s musical career is extremely rapid since, at the age of 26, he was appointed titular organist of Lausanne Cathedral in 1991 and, from 1993, organ professor at the Conservatory and Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne where he is responsible for the Organ department. Jean-Christophe Geiser is one of the most present Swiss musicians on the international scene.
He pursues a brilliant concert career which has already led him to give a thousand recitals in around forty countries in Europe, America, Asia and Australia. He has been invited to perform in the Cathedrals of Hamburg, Cologne, Helsinki, Brussels, Oslo, Monaco, Moscow, Notre-Dame in Paris, Washington DC, St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London, the Frauenkirche in Dresden, the Madeleine in Paris, the Philharmonie in St. Petersburg, the Philharmonie in Munich, the Cultural Center in Hong Kong, at the Town Hall in Melbourne, at the Cathedral and at the Bach Festival in Warsaw, at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, at the Pantheon in Rome, at the Buenos Aires Organ Festival, at the Budapest Spring Festival… Jean-Christophe Geiser has made numerous recordings, notably for various Swiss radio stations, DeutschlandRadio, Südwestfunk, Radio Russia; VDE-GALLO, IFO-Verlag and FNAC-Musique.
He studied at the University of Arts in Bern where he obtained a piano diploma in 1989 (Otto Seger’s class) and a soloist diploma with congratulations from the jury (Heinrich Gurtner’s organ class). He twice won the Göhner Foundation Prize, thanks to which he perfected his skills in Paris with François-Henri Houbart Alongside his musical studies, he studied musicology and law at the University of Bern and obtained his lawyer’s license.
He is at the origin of the design of the new Fisk organs of Lausanne Cathedral, inaugurated in December 2003. It is the largest musical instrument in Switzerland, a design as yet unpublished since it brings together the four main options of organ building: French classical, German baroque, French symphonic and German romantic. It is also the first instrument designed by a designer, Giorgetto Giugiaro. See also www.grandesorgues.ch.
In 2021, he was chosen by the daily newspaper “Le Temps” as one of the 100 Swiss personalities of the year. During the month of December 2023 alone, he played in recital for 5,000 listeners during the anniversary concerts marking the 20th anniversary of the great organs of Lausanne Cathedral “ORGANISSIMA & LUX” and for the end-of-year concerts.
