Haute école de musique de Genève

The Geneva Haute école de musique is a higher music education institution in Geneva, Switzerland. Status The HEM is a public institution founded in 2009, but the school has its origin back to 1835. It is affiliated to the Music & Performing Arts Faculty of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale, HES-SO). Its Bachelor and Master courses are fully recognized by the Swiss authorities. They are compatible with the European educative space, and well recognized abroad. The mission of the HEM includes education at the Bachelor and Master level, artistic research, lifelong learning for professional musicians, and artistic productions. The HEM extends its activities to a branch in Neuchâtel. Since 2022 Beatrice Zawodnik is the Director of the institution. History The HEM stems from the Geneva Music Conservatory founded 1835 by François Bartholoni (1796-1881). The Music & Movement Department stems from the Institute founded in 1915 by the musician and educator Emile Jaques-Dalcroze. The Conservatoire de musique de Genève was one of the first founded in Europe. Many great artists taught there, such as Franz Liszt Ernest Bloch Ernest Ansermet Dinu Lipatti Nikita Magaloff Marcel Moyse Joseph Szigeti José Vianna da Motta The HEM is situated in a building in Place Neuve erected in 1855 by the Parisian architect Jean-Baptiste Lesueur. Inside the Conservatory was founded in 1939 the Geneva International Music Competition Concours international d'exécution musicale de Genève. The Early Music Department of the HEM stems from the Centre the musique ancienne, founded 1975 by the Conservatoire populaire de musique de Genève. The HEM was affiliated as a Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences in 2002.