Lecture and Workshop :
Jean Binet and Frank Martin

Jacques Tchamkerten was born in Geneva. After studying organ with Pierre Segond at the Conservatoire de Genève, he began learning the Ondes Martenot under Jeanne Loriod, where he received a unanimous gold medal at the Conservatoire de Saint-Maur (France) in 1986. Since then, he has performed in a dozen European countries, both with orchestras and in chamber music ensembles. From 1990 to 1996, he was a member of the Sextuor Jeanne-Loriod, a sextet of Ondes Martenot.

As the head of the Library at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, Jacques Tchamkerten also pursues a career in musicology. He has published monographs on Arthur Honegger, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, and Ernest Bloch, along with numerous articles on music in French-speaking Switzerland in the early 20th century, as well as on French music from the 19th and 20th centuries. He has contributed to the Dictionnaire du Théâtre en Suisse, the Dictionnaire de la Musique française au XIXe siècle, and the new edition of the New Grove Dictionary. As a researcher, he is regularly invited to participate in various conferences. In 2011, he was awarded the Pierre-et-Louisa-Meylan Foundation Prize for his body of work.