Swiss Global Artistic Foundation

Born in Geneva in 1987, Sébastian Jacot started playing the flute at age eight. He studied with Isabelle Giraud and at age fifteen he was accepted into the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Genève in Prof. Jacques Zoon's class. There he studied until 2010 when he obtained his Pedagogy and Soloist diploma with Distinction.

Mr Jacot received first prize in 2002 and 2004 at the Youth Swiss Music Competition, and in 2005 was named Soloist of the Year by the "Jmanuel und Evamaria Schenk Stiftung" for playing the Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto Pastoral.

From 2006 to 2008, Mr Jacot was Assistant Principal Flute under Maestro Edo de Waart at the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and since 2008 he has served as Principal Flutist at the Saiton Kinen Festival under Maestro Seiji Osawa.

Mr Jacot has been invited to play in orchestras such as the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Mozart Orchestra in Bologna under Maestro Claudio Abbado, the Chamber Orchestra of Geneva, Contrechamps Orchestra and many others. He is also very interested in chamber music. He participated to the Festival Amadeus in Geneva as well as the festival Les Musicales in Colmar with Marc Coppey, Romain Guyot and Jeremy Menuhin. As his three brothers, his sister and his mother are all musicians, they have together performed over one hundred concerts throughout Europe, Mexico, Algeria and Hong Kong.

Mr Jacot is now building a recording studio and in preparation for  several upcoming international competitions.