Guy-Baptiste Jaccottet (b. 1998) brings together tradition and innovation across all aspects of his work. As a concert performer, educator, and artistic director, he offers bold approaches to the organ, driven by a genuine desire to inspire a renewed passion for the instrument.
Appointed to the Conservatoire de Lausanne in 2022, he will also teach continuo and practical harmony at the Haute École de Musique Vaud-Valais-Fribourg from 2026, and regularly gives masterclasses throughout Europe. His pedagogical compositions for children, awarded in 2019 by the Kinder an die Orgel association, have quickly become a benchmark in the field.
Organist at the Temple of La Tour-de-Peilz, Guy-Baptiste gives around forty concerts each year as a soloist, silent film accompanist, or ensemble musician, appearing at institutions such as the Zermatt Festival, Toulouse les Orgues, Davos Festival, Timorgelfest, Le Printemps des Orgues, the Verbier Festival Orchestra, and the Braga International Organ Festival.
As Artistic Director of the Organopole Foundation, he actively promotes a resolutely modern and inclusive vision of the organ, notably by developing concert series for families and initiating annual projects in composition, transcription, and new collaborations between the organ world and other artistic fields.
Passionate about the performing arts and cinema from an early age, he was invited to join the Théâtre Barnabé, where he has been resident organist since 2018. This unique venue, where musical theatre and organ intersect, provides an ideal setting for experimentation and for bringing the instrument to a wider audience. In collaboration with Goll Orgelbau, he is currently leading a major reconstruction project of the theatre’s instrument, aimed at developing and preserving this living heritage.
He has received First Prize and the Audience Prize at the International Flauto Dolce Composition Competition (2016), the Talent and Creativity Grant from the Fondation Casino Barrière (2019), the Pedagogical Composition Prize from Kinder an die Orgel (2020), and the Max D. Jost Foundation Prize (2023).
Photo: © Grégoire Fillion