Deeply lyrical writing that fits naturally into the great European Romantic tradition.
— Programme — Festival Classique de la Madeleine
Doryan Emmanuel Rappaz
From camera to baton — a cinematic and symphonic voice, from Geneva.
Next concert
21 June 2026·Salle des Fêtes, Lausanne·Quatuor à cordes op. 13 · 13 Solitudes op. 4
Manifesto
« I often compare music to the hand of Midas, which turned everything it touched into gold. Sadness becomes melancholy of extreme depth; joy becomes a hymn to spring; the feeling of love — music draws out the very essence of romanticism… »
Doryan Emmanuel Rappaz
Cinema · Vanguard Studios Europe
From conductor to filmmaker —
one writing, two languages.
Direction and original score conceived as one. Two recent films to discover.
Vanguard Studios Europe · 2024
Pandemonia — L'infirmière
Direction · Original score
Vanguard Studios Europe · 2024
Marguerites rouges
Direction · Original score
Doryan Emmanuel Rappaz · Rainy Day, op. 20
Biography
From the Conservatory to Victoria Hall — the autodidact who never stopped writing.
Doryan Emmanuel Rappaz, born in Geneva in 1986, wrote his first pieces at seventeen after a brief stint at the Conservatory and a long self-taught apprenticeship. Trained in orchestration by Bogdan Zvorastenau, first violin of the OSR, he signed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in 2010, premiered by the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra.
From the Serenade for Strings (Victoria Hall, 2011) to the 13 Solitudes cycle, from the Double Concerto to the more recent « Les Noces » with Léman Virtuosi, his catalogue weaves a patient dialogue between late romanticism, European modernity and intimate depth.
Founder and president of GenevArte, winner of the FNAC Young Talent Prize for his book Rêve d'ado (2007), he pursues several entrepreneurial adventures in parallel — without ever leaving the piano.
Concerts
Upcoming dates
In recording
At Victoria Hall with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Live recording of a symphonic evening at Victoria Hall, Geneva.
Reviews · Testimonials
The pianistic gesture is inhabited, the emotion never cheats — Rappaz speaks a language we thought forgotten.
— Music-lover, Soirée des Jeunes Créateurs
His Serenade for Strings brought Victoria Hall to a rare silence.
— OSR regular
For Doryan, composing is first of all storytelling — and his Solitudes are the purest proof of it.
— Kamil Osmanov, pianist
Deeply lyrical writing that fits naturally into the great European Romantic tradition.
— Programme — Festival Classique de la Madeleine
The pianistic gesture is inhabited, the emotion never cheats — Rappaz speaks a language we thought forgotten.
— Music-lover, Soirée des Jeunes Créateurs
His Serenade for Strings brought Victoria Hall to a rare silence.
— OSR regular
For Doryan, composing is first of all storytelling — and his Solitudes are the purest proof of it.
— Kamil Osmanov, pianist
Beyond music
A life of parallel commitments
Composition at the heart, and around it chosen adventures — literary writing, supporting young talent, entrepreneurship.
Association · 2007
GenevArte
Promoting classical music and supporting young talent. A registered public-benefit non-profit since 2011, the association runs the Festival Classique de la Madeleine and the Soirée des Jeunes Créateurs.
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Literature · 2007
Rêve d'ado
Doryan's first book, winner of the Young Talent Prize — FNAC Literature Revelation at the 2007 Geneva Book Fair.
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Entrepreneurship · 2018
LaseRed
The world's first concept combining escape room and laser game — four sites in French-speaking Switzerland, more than 40,000 players.
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