Duo Guy-Baptiste Jaccottet & Tjasha Gafner
Biography Duo Guy-Baptiste Jaccottet & Tjasha Gafner
Guy-Baptiste Jaccottet
Fascinated by the organ in all its facets, Guy-Baptiste Jaccottet (1998) studies in the class of Benjamin Righetti (HEMU-Lausanne) and at the same time works on improvisation with Paul Goussot (CRR Rueil-Malmaison).
Deeply attracted by the creation, the spectacle and the cinema, he is responsible for the organ of the Barnabé Theater in Servion. From 2019 to 2021, he is assistant organist at the church of Saint-François in Lausanne and in 2020 takes up his functions as titular organist at the Temple of La Tour-de-Peilz and as organ teacher at the Conservatoire de Montreux-Vevey-Riviera (CMVR). In 2022, he was appointed professor of organ at the Conservatoire de Lausanne.
As a soloist, cinematographer or in an ensemble, Guy-Baptiste gives about forty concerts per year, notably in privileged and prestigious settings (Verbier Festival, Festival internazionale di musica organistica di Magadino, Festival Toulouse les Orgues, Festival l'orgue fait son cinéma in Geneva, Bach Festival in Lausanne, Davos Festival). Anxious to defend a wide and varied repertoire and to reach an ever more diverse audience, he regularly produces videos on his YouTube channel. In 2022, he recorded a first album at the Abbey of Payerne, in duo with the flutist Charlotte Schneider.
His music was recognized in 2016 by the First Prize and the Audience Prize at the New Music for Recorder composition competition. Winner of the pedagogical composition competition of the association Kinder an die Orgel, he published in 2022 the 3 volumes of his "Carnaval des Zoorganistes", intended for budding organists.
Fond of novelty, but respectful of tradition, he received in 2019 the Grant for talent and creativity from the Casino Barrière Foundation.
