New Professor for Traverso from September 2026: Georges Barthel

Georges Barthel will teach at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis from the autumn semester 2026/27, succeeding Marc Hantaï. We look forward to working with him!

Georges Barthel studied both modern flutes under Claire Gentilhomme and early flutes under Jean-François Alizon at the Conservatoire National de Région de Strasbourg. After his graduation he decided to focus on historical performance practice and entered the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, where he studied historical flutes from the renaissance to the romantic period under Barthold Kuijken and was also taught by his assistants Frank Theuns and Marc Hantaï.

Since then, he has performed in Europe and overseas as a soloist, chamber musician and as a member of leading early music ensembles such as La Petite Bande, Anima Eterna Brugge, Les Talens Lyriques, Ricercar Consort, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Les Siècles, Gaechinger Cantorey, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Utopia, La Scintilla or Collegium 1704.

His recordings include works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Berlioz, Dvořák, Bruckner, and Janáček with Anima Eterna, symphonies by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Beethoven with La Chambre Philharmonique, works by Johann Sebastian Bach with Ricercar Consort and Gaechinger Cantorey, Bedřich Smetana's ma Vlast with Collegium 1704 and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Magic Flute with René Jacobs and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.

Georges Barthel currently teaches early flutes at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen as well as at the Universität der Künste Berlin.