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Victor Hege was born in Nîmes, in the south of France, into a family of musicians. He began learning the euphonium at the age of five with Patrick Maurin and later expanded his repertoire during his adolescence to include tuba and sousaphone. In 2010, he moved to Basel, where he earned his first Master’s degree in Classical Music Pedagogy with David Leclair in 2016, followed by a second Master’s in Jazz Performance, Composition, and Production in 2021 under André Buser and Guillermo Klein.
Over the past fifteen years, Victor Hege has developed an artistic approach based on a simple principle: to follow inspiration, desire, and passion wherever they arise, and to create music that is demanding yet accessible. Building on this philosophy, he has developed numerous projects that have taken him across the musical landscape, creating a highly eclectic repertoire and vocabulary that combines his classical and jazz roots with contemporary music and the influences of his travels. Along the way, he has also engaged in theater, opened a photography and video studio in Basel, sings, and has become a multi-instrumentalist.
During the past decade, he has performed with his own ensembles, such as Error 404 Band not Found, while also serving as musical director and producer for singer La Nefera, and as musician and actor for the theater company Les mémoires d’Hélènes. He founded the Kugawana Project and traveled to Uganda, establishing long-term pedagogical and social initiatives. In parallel, he tours worldwide as a sideman with the Fischermanns Orchestra, Traktorkestar, and Pullup Orchestra.
Victor is currently preparing the release of his second album with his jazz band Belinda Bones, an unconventional nonet featuring two drums, four trombones, saxophone, piano, and sousaphone, as well as the album Je vais bien with Victor Belinda Solo but Trio, where he sings his own compositions. With his Victor Belinda Quartett, focused on improvisation, he explores genre-blending projects, including a 2024 collaboration in Iraq with Kurdish musicians, arranging traditional repertoire and combining it with his own compositions. In 2025, he founded Chroma4, an international ensemble of four musicians, including the renowned Cuban trumpeter Yasek Manzano, creating a bridge between European jazz and Afro-Cuban traditions.
His meeting with stage director Martina Momo Kunz in 2019 led him to compose the music for the play Pseudologia Phantastica with Les mémoires d’Hélènes. Despite the pandemic’s challenges, this theater experience enriched his artistic palette and transformed his approach to composition. Together, they founded the duo I Never Took my Ritalin, combining music, rap, multi-instrumentality, and stage performance, which continues to tour across Europe.
In 2025, his participation in the ITEC (International Tuba and Euphonium Conference) confirmed his international reputation as a tubist and sousaphonist. He also leads workshops worldwide and serves as an artist-developer for two French instrument brands: Costes Musique, with whom he develops and promotes an innovative carbon sousaphone, and Sierman Musique, for which he performs and contributes to the development of their tubas.
Today, Victor plays sousaphone, tuba, euphonium, serpent, various flutes, and sings. His projects include Belinda Bones, Chroma4, I Never Took my Ritalin, the Victor Belinda Quartett, Victor Belinda Solo but Trio, as well as numerous sideman collaborations with renowned artists such as Nicole Johänntgen and Sacha Ruffieux.
