Dominique Girod

Dominique Girod (* 1975 in Winterthur ) is a Swiss composer and double bass player .

Live and act

Dominique Girod grew up in Winterthur as the son of the mime and movement teacher Ruth Girod and the jazz pianist Roger Girod . From 1993 to 1996 he studied jazz and classical double bass at the Ecole Normale and the American School of Modern Music in Paris with Jean-François Jenny-Clark . Back in Switzerland , he studied classical double bass with Andreas Cincera at the Zurich Conservatory (teaching diploma 1999). At the same university, he studied composition with Michael Jarrell and electronic music and theory with Gerald Bennett (graduation 2007).

As a musician mainly active in the field of jazz and new music , he played bass with Nat Su , Chris Wiesendanger , Christoph Gallio , Dieter Ulrich , Daniel Schenker , Matthias Spillmann , Reto Suhner , Chris Cheek , Kurt Rosenwinkel , Michael Jeffrey Stevens / Miles Griffith , Benny Golson , Jorge Rossy , the Philharmonic Workshop Switzerland and the Ensemble for New Music Zurich . Around 2009 he also founded the sextet "Grünes Blatt", for which he also writes and arranges his own music. Since 2012 he has been playing mostly on an instrument made by the Zurich bass maker Martin Hillmann.

As a composer , Girod writes both jazz and classical music . In addition to various composition commissions, he has dealt intensively with songs , especially Romanian folk songs for his band "Grünes Blatt" . His first opera "l'homme qui rit" (an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo ) was premiered in 2013 by the Freie Oper Zürich in the Rote Fabrik Zürich .

Girod has been teaching double bass (classical and jazz) at the Zurich Conservatory Music School (MKZ) and the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) since 2001 . Since 2008 he has also been teaching music theory there as part of the diploma courses “ DAS Kirchenmusik Chorleitung / Organ”.

Prizes and awards

From 2003 to 2004 Girod received a scholarship from the Landis + Gyr studio for composition in London . In 2014 he received the recognition award for composition from the municipality of Zollikon . In 2015, he was funded by the presidential department of the city of Zurich for his work year for serious music for composition .

Discography

• Di Alma , with Teofilo Chantre (Lusafrica, 1997)
• about , with Day & Taxi (Percaso, 1998)
• Less And More , with Day & Taxi ( Unit Records , 1998)
• Live At Moods , with the Chris Wiesendanger Trio (Brambus Records, 1999)
• Agua Amarga , with the Thomas Silvestri Quintet ( Altrisuoni , 2000)
• The Sign , with the Adrian Frey Trio (Altrisuoni, 2000)
• Only Love , with Miles Griffith / Michael Stevens Quartet (Arstists Recording Collectiv, 2008)
• Thirteen Ways , with Grünes Blatt (Unit Records, 2011)
• Ripples , with the Lester Menezes Trio and Friends (Unit Records, 2012)
• Roadworks , with Christoph Gallio / Beat Streuli (Percaso, 2013)
• Colors , with the Reto Suhner Nonet (Anuk, 2013)

Web links

• Literature by and about Dominique Girod in the catalog of the German National Library .
• Dominique Girod's website
• Personal entry for Dominique Girod in the Jazzindex , accessed on April 5, 2014.
• Short biography of Dominique Girod on the website of the Zurich University of the Arts , accessed on April 15, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ With humor on many tracks. In: Der Landbote from January 25, 2013, accessed on April 6, 2020.
2. ↑ Lecturers Choir - Organ - Church Music ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 12, 2014. 
3. ↑ Landis & Gyr Foundation - Studio Grants - All Studio Guests ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 29, 2015 
4. ^ Zolliker Art Prize 2014: The prizes go to the composers Alfred Zimmerlin and Dominique Girod , accessed on August 29, 2015
5. ↑ Funding - City of Zurich: Composition work years until today , accessed on September 24, 2015