Dominique Girod

From 1993 to 1996 he studied jazz and classical double bass at the Ecole Normale and the American School of Modern Music in Paris with Jean-François Jenny-Clark.

Back in Switzerland he studied classical double bass at the Zürich conservatory with Andreas Cincera (diploma 1999) and composition with Michael Jarrell and electronic music and music theory with Gerald Bennett (until 2007).

Girod's main areas of interest are jazz and 20th-century classical music, he has played bass as a leader and as a sideman with Nat Su, Chris Wiesendanger, Christoph Gallio, Dieter Ulrich, Daniel Schenker, Matthias Spillmann, Reto Suhner, Chris Cheek, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Michael Jeffrey Stevens/Miles Griffith, Benny Golson, Jorge Rossy, the Philharmonische Werkstatt Schweiz and the Ensemble für Neue Musik Zürich.

Since 2012 Girod plays predominantly on an instrument built by the Zurich luthier Martin Hillmann.

Girod teaches double bass (classical and jazz) at the Musikschule Konservatorium Zürich (MKZ) and at the Zurich University of the Arts.