Musical education
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Born in Geneva as third child of Jean and Jaqueline Starobinski, Georges Starobinski (1961) began studying the piano, conducting and musicology at the Conservatoire and the University of his native town, later adding opera-conducting as well as the accompaniment of lieder in Munich, at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater. He also participated in master classes in England (Dartington) and Germany (Bach Academy, Stuttgart). With the singing teacher Eva Krasznai-Gombos he directed several summer classes in Spain. He was a piano student of Claire-Leuthold, Harry Datyner and Susana Sierro. He worked on the chamber music repertoire with Corrado Romano (Geneva), and was later deeply influenced by the teaching of Istvan Krasznai (Weiner Quartet, Budapest), who had studied with Imre Waldbauer, Leo Weiner and Janos Ferencik in Budapest. Georges Starobinski studied conducting with Arpad Gérecz at the Conservatoire of Geneva, and with Hermann Michael at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich. There he made the acquaintance of Kammersängerin Brigitte Fassbänder, who invited him to accompany her students at concerts as well as at Helmut Deutsch’s course on lieder. |