At Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, we offer degree programmes ranging from classical, jazz and pop to folk music. Werckmeister provides fundamental training in perceiving and hearing timbre and intonation. That makes it ideal for opening the ear to the variety of expression in all genres, at pre-college level and even earlier.
Prof. Hans-Jürg Rickenbacher
Test group pre-college, voice teachers
Lecturer in voice at HSLU, programme coordinator for the pre-college and all vocal degree programmes (BA and MA Performance), President of the European Voice Teachers Association Switzerland
Hans-Jürg Rickenbacher is a singer and voice teacher. Since 2010 he has been professor of solo voice at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU), where he is also programme coordinator of the pre-college. From 1999 to 2022 he also taught at the Musik-Akademie Basel.
Born in Biel/Bienne, he studied voice, guitar and school music at the Musik-Akademie Basel. After the Swiss Opera Studio, he received several study awards as well as important vocal guidance from Wally Stämpfli, Barbara Locher, Malcolm Walker and Nicolaï Gedda.
His repertoire covers opera, oratorio and song alike, ranging from Monteverdi to contemporary music. Numerous performances at the Luzerner Theater and in Lucerne’s churches and concert halls connect him with the music city. Guest engagements have taken him to theatres, opera houses and concert halls throughout Europe, the Middle East and North and South America, with renowned orchestras, conductors and directors.
From 2009 to 2010 he lived and taught with his family at a rainforest school on the Río Napo in Ecuador, in the Amazon basin, “the largest concert hall in the world”. He compares the acoustic universe of the rainforest to a view of the starry sky that reaches far beyond our history. Singing and singing lessons can give this image a voice.
Hans-Jürg Rickenbacher is President of the European Voice Teachers Association Switzerland (EVTA.CH) and initiated Eurovox 2026.