Musician, teacher, researcher, director... Sylvain Jaccard's career is characterised by the combination of these facets.

Pianist, opera singer, music didactician and musicologist, with a doctorate in music, he has broadened his skills with a master's degree in cultural management. He is currently in charge of the research team MIMIME (relationship between music schools and the public school, mediation) at the Haute école de musique HEMU.

Thus, while pursuing a career as a musician, after having trained generalist and specialist teachers for twenty years, he took over the direction of the Conservatoire de musique neuchâtelois, and then, from 1 September 2021, that of the Haute école de musique du Valais.