www.dominiquegirod.ch
Beginning in 2000, he has studied composition with Michaël Jarrell, and electronic music and theory with Gerald Bennett. Girod completed his studies in 2007 at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).
Dominique Girod contributed to numerous concerts, tours and CD productions in Jazz and Contemporary music, with such musicians as Nat Su, Chris Wiesendanger, Christoph Gallio, Dieter Ulrich, Daniel Schenker, Matthias Spillmann, Reto Suhner, Chris Cheek, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Michael J. Stevens, Miles Griffith, Bennie Golson, Jorge Rossy, the Phillarmonische Werkstatt Schweiz, the Ensemble für Neue Musik Zürich and with his own band «Grünes Blatt».
He composed pieces for various instrumentations, where his compositional interest applies particularly to songs. He received commissions from various organizations, including the Berio Festival London (2004), the Trio Tafeal, and the Zurich New Music Ensemble. In 2003–2004 he was awarded a fellowship by Landis & Gyr Atelier in London.
In 2013 he creates with Freie Oper Zürich the opera «l'homme qui rit».
Since 2001 Dominique Girod teaches double-bass, both classic and jazz, at the Zurich Conservatory. He also teaches theory at the Winterthur Conservatory as well as at the ZHdK since 2008.
