Music within your reach and your rhythm
The first school with home-based lessons and academic roots
The master-classes are above all meetingswith renowned artistswith unique personalities. They allow musicians to develop theirvery personal approach to music, to undo and deconstruct their knowledge to better reconstruct their representations towards other learnings and thus gain a certain autonomy.
Registrations are done by e-mail
Neo Academy price: 70 CHF
Price: 80 CHF
Lesson duration: 50 minutes per musician.
Auditors - Free admission
Address: Chemin Etienne Chennaz 14, 1226 Thônex (GE)
“...the ingredients needed to make a good musician can be summed up in four points: a hearing, an intelligence, a cultivated heart and hand. These four ingredients must develop in parallel, in constant balance! »
Zoltan Kodaly
Arthur Guignard is the winner of several prizes, notably at the Swiss Musical Youth competition and the Leopold Bellan international competition in Paris. In 2011, he unanimously won first prize at the European Music Competition of Moncalieri in Italy, with pianist Rohfei Tong. He has performed as a soloist on numerous occasions and his interpretation of the Saint-Saëns concerto with the United Nations Orchestra, conducted by Antoine Marguier, has been a great success.
During his studies, he worked and perfected himself under the tutelage of great Masters such as Arto Noras, Julius Berger, Andre Emelianoff, Antonio Meneses, Janos Starker, Enrico Dindo, Daniel Grosgurin and Stefan Riekhoff (OSR solo cello).
Since 2007, he has held the position of 1st solo cello in the New Geneva Orchestra, under the direction of Michel Dumonthey. More recently, he became a substitute member of the Orchester de Chambre de Lausanne, co-soloist of the Orchester de Chambre Fribourgeois and the Orchester de la Suisse Romande, orchestras with
which he plays regularly.
Arthur teaches cello and chamber music at Studio Kodaly in Geneva. He plays a Neapolitan Tomaso Eberle cello from 1775.