As a leading concert organist, Prof.  Jean-Christophe Geiser has enjoyed a rapid career since 1991 when at the age of 26 he was named competition winner for the prestigious position of titular organist of the Cathedral of Lausanne, Switzerland's most important gothic building. In 1993,  he was appointed professor of organ at the Lausanne University of Music, where he is currently dean of the organ department. He is also artistic director of the Cathedral’s Concert Society. He studied at the Berne University of Music with Otto Seger, earning a diploma in piano, and with Heinrich Gurtner, learning a soloist’s diploma with honors. He was twice awarded the Prix de la Fondation Göhner, enabling him to study organ further with François-Henri Houbart as well as to attend a number of diverse courses in performance and interpretation. Jean-Christophe Geiser has already performed more than 800 recitals in some fourty countries throughout Europe, America, Asia and Australia. He has been invited to perform, among others,  in the cathedrals of Hamburg, Cologne, Helsinki, Brussels, Oslo and Washington D.C., as well as at Notre-Dame in Paris, St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London, the Madeleine in Paris, the Philharmonie in Munich, at the Stockholm Organ Festival, the Cathedral and Bach Festival in Warsaw, the Town Hall in Melbourne, the  Cultural Center in Hong Kong, the Buenos Aires Organ Festival, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig,. Jean-Christophe Geiser has made numerous recordings for several Swiss radio networks and for DeutschlandRadio, Südwestfunk, Radio Russie, VDE-Gallo, IFO-Verlag and FNAC-Musique. He was the moving force behind the idea of the new Fisk organ at the Cathedral in Lausanne, inaugurated in 2003, probably the world's most expensive organ in the world with a total cost of more than 6 millions CHF.