History

The Orchestre Symphonique en Vogue (OSV) was created in 2019 at the initiative of our flutist Jessica Walgenwitz as a project orchestra. Sustained by its first committee and its musical director Gabriel Pernet, the orchestra's mission is to offer the French-speaking Swiss musical scene an ensemble composed of young amateurs and future professionals. Every task, from musical direction to graphic design, is entrusted to a person ideally between 15 and 25 years old. The OSV thus promotes classical music to young people, aims to be a training orchestra for everyone, and hopes to offer dynamic and modern performances.

Over 4 years, it offered a chamber music program during the Covid-19 pandemic, and then performed a wide variety of iconic works from the orchestral repertoire, such as Beethoven's 5th Symphony, Dvorak's 9th Symphony, or Sibelius's 2nd Symphony. It also offers young soloists the opportunity to familiarize themselves with interpreting the great repertoire with orchestra. For instance, it performed Shostakovich's 1st Cello Concerto with Camille Thévoz, a movement from Mozart's Flute and Harp Concerto with Jessica Walgenwitz, or Hummel's Oboe Variations with Ulysse Othenin Girard.

Continuing its mission to make its musicians discover a new repertoire, the orchestra tackled Shostakovich's 5th Symphony in October 2023 and performed its first staged work, Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor, directed by its production director Gaétan Herold.

In 2024, the orchestra tackled Mahler's 1st Symphony during two highly acclaimed symphonic concerts. True to its goal of highlighting promising artists from the region, the orchestra also allowed Pierre-Alexandre Marchand to perform Hummel's Trumpet Concerto.