'{{Short description|Swiss composer and bassist}} [[File:Dominique Girod 01 (fcm).jpg|thumb|Dominique Girod at Jazz in the Palmengarten 2024]] '''Dominique Girod''' (born 1975 in [[Winterthur]]) is a Swiss [[composer]] and [[Double bass|bass]]ist. == Life and career == Girod grew up as son of the [[Mime artist|pantomime]] and movement pedagogue Ruth Girod and the [[Jazz piano|jazz pianist]] Roger Girod in Winterthur. From 1993 to 1996 he studied jazz and [[Classical music|classical]] [[double bass]] at the [[École Normale de Musique de Paris|Ecole Normale]] and the American School of Modern Music in Paris with Jean-François Jenny-Clark. Back in Switzerland he studied classical [[double bass]] at the Zürich conservatory with Andreas Cincera (diploma 1999) and [[Musical composition|composition]] with Michael Jarrell and [[electronic music]] and [[music theory]] with Gerald Bennett (until 2007). Girod's main areas of interest are jazz and [[20th-century classical music]], he has played [[Bass (instrument)|bass]] as a leader and as a sideman with Nat Su, Chris Wiesendanger, Christoph Gallio, Dieter Ulrich, Daniel Schenker, Matthias Spillmann, Reto Suhner, [[Chris Cheek]], [[Kurt Rosenwinkel]], Michael Jeffrey Stevens/Miles Griffith, [[Benny Golson]], [[Jorge Rossy]], the Philharmonische Werkstatt Schweiz and the Ensemble für Neue Musik Zürich. Around 2009 he co-founded the sextett "{{Lang|de|Grünes Blatt}}", which he writes and arranges music for. Since 2012 Girod plays predominantly on an instrument built by the Zurich [[luthier]] Martin Hillmann. As a [[composer]] Girod writes jazz as well as classical music. He has authored a number of commissioned compositions and has worked on songs (mainly Romanian [[Lied#History|folk songs)]] for his band "{{Lang|de|Grünes Blatt}}". His first [[opera]] ''{{Lang|fr|L'homme qui rit}}'' (an [[Derivative work|adaptation]] of the novel by the same name by [[Victor Hugo]]) was premiered by the Freie Oper Zürich in the [[Rote Fabrik|Rote Fabrik Zürich]] in 2013. Girod teaches double bass (classical and jazz) at the Musikschule Konservatorium Zürich (MKZ) and at the [[Zurich University of the Arts]]. Since 2008 he has also lectured on [[music theory]] for students of the DAS Kirchenmusik Chorleitung/Orgel courses there.<ref>[http://www.zhdk.ch/index.php?id=kirchenmusik_dozierende ''Dozierende Chor – Orgel – Kirchenmusik''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150113205320/http://www.zhdk.ch/index.php?id=kirchenmusik_dozierende |date=2015-01-13 }}, accessed May 12, 2014.</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.dominiquegirod.ch/ Official website of Dominique Girod] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Girod, Dominique}} [[Category:1975 births]] [[Category:21st-century double-bassists]] [[Category:21st-century male musicians]] [[Category:Classical double-bassists]] [[Category:Jazz-influenced classical composers]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Swiss male opera composers]] [[Category:People from Winterthur]] [[Category:Swiss classical composers]] [[Category:Swiss classical musicians]] [[Category:Swiss opera composers]]'