- Piano
A working chamber musician and accompanist, Gui-Michel Caillat performs alongside several different long-term partners and young, budding musicians. His many different areas of interest (piano recitals, four-handers and two pianos, with singers, as a soloist in orchestras, performing chamber music and voice coach) have resulted in a multi-faceted approach to music.
Born in Geneva, Gui-Michel Caillat was awarded his piano qualification (non-professional) at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique in 1974, and began teaching professional classes in 1979, covering piano, sight-reading and primarily chamber music from 1984 on. In addition, he began teaching on the Masters in piano accompaniment with singing (Melodies and Lieder) programme in 2010. He has also accompanied many instrumental and vocal classes, particularly those of Margaret Harshaw and Eric Tappy (singing), Joseph Gingold (violin) and Philippe Collet (saxophone).
In Geneva, he studied piano (H. Datyner, L. Hiltbrand), singing (J. Albareda), the organ (P. Segond) and briefly the clarinet. Alongside his studies in Geneva, he took regular piano lessons with M. Ciampi in Paris and later with G. Sebok in Bloomington (Indiana University). He was the vocal coach for the Basel opera house from 1981 to 1982 and taught piano at Bern's Hochschule from 2007 to 2008. He has also taught master classes, in particular at the Académie de Villecroze (1996 and 1999), at the CNSM in Paris and in Mâcon.
He teaches at the Académie musicale de Villecroze in 1996 and 1999.