{"id":1638,"date":"2025-05-28T08:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T08:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maestro-for-a-day.art\/a-propos\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T10:01:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:01:47","slug":"a-propos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/maestro-for-a-day.art\/en\/a-propos\/","title":{"rendered":"a propos"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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GUILLAUME BERNEY<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Trained at the Hautes Ecoles de Musique in Lausanne and Geneva, and at the Zurich University of the Arts, Guillaume Berney is currently artistic and musical director of the Orchestre Nexus. Previously, he held similar positions with Ensemble Proteus.<\/p>

He has conducted ensembles such as Teatro Regio Torino, Festival Strings Lucerne, Argovia Philharmonic, Orchestre de Chambre de Gen\u00e8ve, Musikkollegium Winterthur, S\u00fcdwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Budapest MVA Symphony Orchesta, Karlsbad Symphony Orchestra, Philips Symphony Orchestra, Kralove Philharmonic, Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra and Estonian Youth Orchestra.<\/p>

He was in turn assistant to Bertrand de Billy, John Nelson, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Michel Corboz and Gabor Takacs-Nagy. He has studied with many conductors, including Bernard Haitink, Daniele Gatti, David Zinmann, Neeme and Paavo Jarvi and Douglas Bostock. He took part in the final stages of the Cadaques, Cantelli, Jeunesses Musicales and Antal Dorati competitions.<\/p>

He has collaborated with Bryn Terfel, Marina Viotti, Camille Thomas, Sergey Ostrovksy, Barbara Hendricks, Andrey Baranov, Marie-Claude Chappuis, Christian Chamorel, Eva Zaicik, Daniel Behle, Lionel Cottet, M\u00e9lodie Zhao, and many others.<\/p>

In addition to his activities as a musician, Guillaume Berney is also General Secretary of the Fondation Culturelle HEMU-CL, co-director of the Lucens Classique festival, President of the Ecole de Musique de Pully, teacher and head of classical music programming for the F\u00eate de la Musique de Lausanne.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Discover how one gesture can inspire an entire collective
with a passionate conductor renowned on the European scene!<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GUILLAUME BERNEY Trained at the Hautes Ecoles de Musique in Lausanne and Geneva, and at the Zurich University of the Arts, Guillaume Berney is currently artistic and musical director of the Orchestre Nexus. Previously, he held similar positions with Ensemble Proteus. He has conducted ensembles such as Teatro Regio Torino, Festival Strings Lucerne, Argovia Philharmonic, Orchestre de Chambre de Gen\u00e8ve, Musikkollegium Winterthur, S\u00fcdwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Budapest MVA Symphony Orchesta, Karlsbad Symphony Orchestra, Philips Symphony Orchestra, Kralove Philharmonic, Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra and Estonian Youth Orchestra. He was in turn assistant to Bertrand de Billy, John Nelson, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Michel Corboz and Gabor Takacs-Nagy. He has studied with many conductors, including Bernard Haitink, Daniele Gatti, David Zinmann, Neeme and Paavo Jarvi and Douglas Bostock. He took part in the final stages of the Cadaques, Cantelli, Jeunesses Musicales and Antal Dorati competitions. He has collaborated with Bryn Terfel, Marina Viotti, Camille Thomas, Sergey Ostrovksy, Barbara Hendricks, Andrey Baranov, Marie-Claude Chappuis, Christian Chamorel, Eva Zaicik, Daniel Behle, Lionel Cottet, M\u00e9lodie Zhao, and many others. In addition to his activities as a musician, Guillaume Berney is also General Secretary of the Fondation Culturelle HEMU-CL, co-director of the Lucens Classique festival, President of the Ecole de Musique de Pully, teacher and head of classical music programming for the F\u00eate de la Musique de Lausanne. Discover how one gesture can inspire an entire collective with a passionate conductor renowned on the European scene!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_canvas","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1638","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\na propos - Maestro for a day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Guillaume Berney, Swiss conductor and founder of Maestro for a Day, builds bridges between musical direction and collective leadership.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/maestro-for-a-day.art\/en\/a-propos\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"a propos - Maestro for a day\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Guillaume Berney, Swiss conductor and founder of Maestro for a Day, builds bridges between musical direction and collective leadership.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/maestro-for-a-day.art\/en\/a-propos\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Maestro for a day\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-03T10:01:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/maestro-for-a-day.art\/en\/a-propos\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/maestro-for-a-day.art\/en\/a-propos\/\",\"name\":\"a propos - 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