Beat Ryser Firmin studied trombone with Professor Branimir Slokar and Armin Bachmann in his hometown of Bern. As a member of the trombone quartet Quattromboni, he won first prize at the International Chamber Music Competition Passau in 1990.
Further studies took him to Tanglewood (USA) and the Royal College of Music in London. Beat Ryser has been a trombonist with the Biel Symphony Orchestra since 1992. In 1998, he studied orchestral conducting at the Freiburg/Br. University of Music, graduating with honours in 2000. Beat Ryser Firmin then studied accompaniment and singing at the Bern University of the Arts. As a pianist, he works with the ensembles Les Charmants, MusiCalls, Tingel Tangel and The Classic Swing Combo. He also conducts the Melchnau church choir and supervises other choirs on a project basis.
Several assistantships have led to collaborations with the Swiss Opera Studio Biel, the Biel Solothurn Theatre, the Orchestre Philharmonique Suisse and the Icelandic Opera in Reykjavik.
Beat Ryser Firmin has been musical director of the Biel-Seeland Concert Choir since 2005. Keyboard instruments have accompanied Beat Ryser Firmin since his earliest childhood and have always held a special fascination for him.
It is not surprising that he has been playing the organ in various parishes since 2022 and that the Queen of instruments has now become his favourite instrument.
