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Born in Switzerland in 1984, Romain Mayor works as choir master, orchestra conductor, singer and organist. He began learning music with the piano before moving on to study singing, conducting and musicology. In addition to his role as artistic director of the Motet de Genève, he conducts the Chœur J.-S. Bach from Lausanne, the Chant Sacré in Geneva and the Ensemble Post-Scriptum, which he founded. Whether leading these choirs or working with various other groups - such as the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, the Toshima Festival Youth Orchestra (Tokyo, Japan), the Lausanne Sinfonietta, the Geneva Symphony Orchestra, the Lake Geneva Ensemble baroque and the Orchestre Philharmonique Romand – he has the opportunity to perform in and outside Switzerland with a repertoire ranging from medieval to 21st century music. Working with the Motet for the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, he also prepares the choir for their seasonal concerts. As a conductor, he is interested in a wide classical repertoire (in particular Elias, die
Requiem by Schnittke and The Wasps by Vaughan Williams), and contemporary pieces (Blaise Ubaldini and Valentin Villard). Regularly invited to lead various courses and choral workshops or to sit on the jury of choral singing competitions, since 2014 he has been a professor of conducting at the Association Vaudoise des Directeurs de Chœurs. He is also expanding his work as a singing teacher and performs in recitals and concerts as a professional choral singer as well as an oratorio soloist. Romain Mayor holds a piano certificate as well as two Master of Arts qualifications from the School of Music for conducting (ranked 'very good') and lyrical song. In 2007, he also received the Fondation Crescendo's Fritz Bach prize.
