Géraldine Cacciatore is the principal flutist of the Basler Festival Orchestra since 1998 and of the Collegium Musicum Basel since 2001. She is an accomplished musician, an active orchestral player, and a passionate flutist based in Zürich, Switzerland.  
She started playing the flute at the age of 15. After one year of practice, she participated in the National Music Competition “Royaume de la Musique” in Lyon (France) where she was awarded the first prize. The French Flute Magazine praised her as “the brilliance of her playing, her confidence and richness of expression”.

She received the Swiss equivalent of a Bachelor of Music from the “Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Genève” (Geneva, Switzerland) and her Master of Music in flute performance with Honors in 1991. In addition, she received her Master’s Degree in Chamber Music, also from “Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Genève” in 1993.
Her major flute teachers included: Patrick Gallois, Maxence Larrieu and Alain Marion, Gui-Michel Caillat, Guarneri Trio Prague, and Talich Quartet for chamber music. During those years of study, she was already affiliated with the two main orchestras in Geneva:  Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, where she collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Armin Jordan, Fabio Luisi, Kurt Sanderling, Orst Stein, Neeme Järvi, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Thierry Fischer, Valery Oistrakh…She completed a year of postgraduate study at the Scuola di Alto Perfezionamento Musicale in Saluzzo (Italy) in the flute class of Maxence Larrieu and Alain Marion, and in the chamber music class of Maurice Bourgues.

She was a featured soloist with the Tibor Varga Youth Orchestra in Sion (Switzerland), the Youth Symphonic Orchestra of Germany, and the principal flutist from the Youth Orchestra of the Mediterranean with which she toured during the summer of 1997.
In 1995 she relocated to Basel where she was appointed principal flute of the Musical Theater Basel, and appeared in the first Swiss production of “Phantom of the Opera” by Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber in the presence of the composer. In 2001 she moved to Zürich where she now lives with her husband.
 Géraldine Cacciatore is also a passionate chamber musician who performs with various ensembles (Duo flute and harp, Quartet flute and strings, Trio with piano, Flutes Quartet).  
With the “Trio de Genève”, she won the first prize at the International Chamber Music Competition of Stresa (Italy) in 1995, and was invited as a guest artist at the Pablo Casals Music Festival in Prades (France), at Tivoli Music Festival in Denmark,

in Montréal, at the Laval Université in Québec (Canada), and at the Summer Music Festival in Messina (Italy).
From July 2013 until December 2014 she performed with the Greenwich Village Orchestra in New-York City, and was a member of the New-York Flute Club.

She performed in Wall Street for the “9/11 anniversary” in 2014.
Her performance highlights of recent years include concerts featuring the Chaminade flute Concertino and the Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto with the Collegium Musicum Basel in 2007 and 2010, the Hidas Flute Concerto in 2012 with Winterthur Woodwind Orchestra (Switzerland) in 2013, and collaborations with other orchestras such as the DRKO (German Radio Chamber Orchestra), the Baden-Württembergische Sinfoniker (Germany), Lemberg International Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre du Festival Berlioz, Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse, Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, and Rai Orchestra in Torino (Italy). She began touring with the DRKO in China in 2017, and performed in January 2017 at the United Nations in Geneva for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The concert was repeated in the new concert hall in Lugano.   
In addition to her active life as a musician, she gives lessons in flute, chamber music, and improvisation at the Stadelhofen College of Music in Zürich.
Géraldine Cacciatore is regularly invited to be a jury member for regional and national flute and chamber music competitions.
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