Biography
Hans-Jürg Rickenbacher, born in Biel/Bienne, studied voice, guitar and music teaching at the Musik-Akademie Basel. After the Swiss Opera Studio, he received various study prizes and important vocal impulses from Wally Stämpfli, Barbara Locher, Malcolm Walker and Nicolaï Gedda.
His broad repertoire has always covered the genres of opera, oratorio and lieder in equal measure and ranges from Monteverdi to contemporary music.
Guest appearances have taken him to many theatres, opera houses and concert halls throughout Europe, the Middle East, North and South America, to renowned orchestras with renowned conductors and directors.
He spent a whole year with his family at a jungle school in „the world’s largest concert hall“, the Amazon basin on Ecuador’s Rio Napo.
The acoustic universe of the rainforest is like a glimpse into the starry sky that reaches far beyond our history. Singing and singing lessons can give this image a voice and, as Goethe says, give our children what is most important: Roots and wings.
From 1999 to 2022 he taught at the Musik-Akademie Basel and since 2010 he has been leading a professional class for solo singing at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts HSLU.
Hans-Jürg Rickenbacher is President of EVTA.CH, the European Voice Teachers Asssociation Switzerland and initiator of Eurovox 2026
