Born 19.9.1943
Voegelin was born in Zurich. He received a diploma in violin from Bern Conservatoire and a bandleader diploma from Basel Academy of Music. He studied composition in classes with Klaus Huber and Robert Suter, and conducting with Hans Swarowsky in Vienna. He is founder and director of Fribourg Chamber Orchestra, and chief director of the “Orchestre de la ville” and the University of Fribourg. He is a guest conductor of Swiss symphony orchestras (Bern, Basel, Lugano). In 1984 he was appointed cultural director in residence at the Columbian National Conservatoire, and in 1988 as chief conductor of the “Orquesta Sinfonica de Antioquia”. He is a professor of conducting at the university of Antioquia. He is also guest conductor with the Columbian National Orchestra, as well as the Venezuela National Philharmonic. Since 1992 he has once again lived as a composer and conductor in Switzerland. He has won many national and international composition prizes and commissions.
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