[1] He was a significant presence among intellectual and artistic circles in Warsaw during the 1930s and later a professor at the Universities of Lausanne and Fribourg.

Born in Kiev of Swiss and Polish ancestry, at the age of 13 Regamey moved to Warsaw, where he studied piano with Józef Turczyński and music theory with Felicjan Szopski.

[2] In 1937 he married Anna Janina Kucharska - a student of Romance Philology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

In 1944 he completed a quintet for clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello and piano that was admired by Witold Lutosławski.

During this time he delivered lectures abroad in India and Egypt and published books and articles on oriental philology and Buddhist philosophy.