Germain Umdenstock is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who currently performs with Nicolas Fraissinet and the group Elynn The Green.
Since 1996 Umdenstock has performed on stages such as Les Trois Baudets (Paris), le Flow (Paris), l’Auguste théâtre (Paris), Metro Al Madina (Beirut), Teatro Nacional Rubén Darío (Managua, Nicaragua), Teatro del Arte (San Salvador, El Salvador), Museo del Jade (San Jose, Costa Rica), Le festival Rockailles (Reignier), Maison du Peuple (Ouagadougou), Salle Métropole, D-Club, Festival de la Cité, Festi’Neuch, Venoge Festival, Casino-théâtre (Geneva), Théâtre du Passage (Neuchâtel), opening for artists including Placebo, Keziah Jones, Michel Bühler, Anthony B, Clarika, Christophe Willem, Julien Clerc and Laurent Garnier.
Umdenstock also composes and arranges music for shows, humanitarian projects, documentary films, dramas and, most recently, a France TV animated series. This production activity began in 2007 when he teamed up with Lausanne-based producer, musician and DJ Ripperton, who introduced him to electronic music. Together they wrote several tracks for his albums, Niwa (2010) and A Little Part Of Shade (2013), as well as several remixes for artists such as Phonique, Jimpster and Ellen Allien. Since then, Germain Umdenstock has set up his own recording studio in Geneva.
Germain Umdenstock holds a Master of Music diploma from the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève (2004) and a music pedagogy diploma from the Société Suisse de Pédagogie Musicale (2006), and teaches guitar at the Conservatoire de Vevey-Montreux Riviera and at Emagina-sons in Grand-Lancy. As part of these two institutions, he set up the Rock Workshops, which he has been running since 2009. The students in these workshops paid tribute to Claude Nobs at the Miles Davis hall in February 2013 and won the Senheiser prize at the 2014 Swiss Youth Music Competition, Pop/Rock section, and have performed every year since 2015 on the Music In The Park stage at the Montreux Jazz Festival.
