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Composer

Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch

Composer (b. 1973)

After his studies in architecture, in Italy and Spain, and composition in France, Lorenzo Bianchi moved to Paris. He produces electronic music for several labels and composes for...

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Julia Blondeau

Composer (b. 1986)

Composer of mixed music—instrumental and electroacoustic—Julia Blondeau also writes works for theater and is interested in the interaction between instrumental and electroacousti...

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Carmine Emanuele Cella

Composer (b. 1976)

After studying music (piano, computer music, and composition) at the conservatory in Pesaro, Italy, Carmine Emanuele Cella studied philosophy and mathematics at the University o...

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Composer

Hyun-hwa Cho

Compositrice (née en 1977)

Compositrice, organiste et pianiste, Hyun-hwa Cho débute le piano à l'âge de cinq ans et se produit dès l'âge de quinze ans sur p...

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Composer

Jérôme Combier

Composer (b. 1971)

At the age of 19 Jérôme Combier decided to learn music. A student in musicology at the University of Saint Denis, he learned to play the guitar, but it was his enco...

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Composer

Chaya Czernowin

Composer (b. 1957)

The use of metaphor is central to Chaya Czernowin’s music; she uses it as a means to organizine an unusual sound universe and to escape all convention. Metaphors are used through...

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Ensemble

 Ensemble intercontemporain

Founded by Pierre Boulez in 1976, the ensemble’s 31 soloists share a passion for 20th and 21st century music. The soloists are employed on permanent contract, enabling them to fulfill the maj...

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Ensemble

 Ensemble ULYSSES

The Ulysses Ensemble is a brand new touring chamber ensemble created by the Ulysses Network. It is made up of young contemporary musicians, between 18 and 30 years old, from all over Europe. Over t...

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Composer

Ashley Fure

Composer (b. 1982)

Ashley Fure is an American composer of acoustic and electroacoustic concert music as well as intermedia installation art. Considered “raw, primal” and “highly ...

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Composer

Heinz Holliger

Composer (b. 1939)

A celebrated oboe player, Heinz Holliger studied composition with personalities such as Sándor Veress and Pierre Boulez. Two awards (Geneva in 1959, Munich in 1961) launc...

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Toshio Hosokawa

Composer (b. 1955) 

Toshio Hosokawa was trained in piano, counterpoint, and harmony in Tokyo. In 1976, he moved to Berlin where he studied composition with I. Yun. He studied under B. Ferneyh...

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Ensemble

 Ictus

Ictus est un collectif fixe d’une vingtaine de musiciens cooptés (dont le chef d’orchestre Georges-Elie Octors). L’ensemble parie dès ses débuts sur la mutation irréversible des ensembles vers le s...
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Composers

(Stephen O'Malley & Peter Rehberg) KTL

Composition, arrangement, and performance
KTL is the group created by the musicians Stephen O’Malley and Peter Rehberg beginning with Kindertotenlieder. Their first album was released in October 200...

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Composer

Mauro Lanza

Composer (b. 1975)

Mauro Lanza studied the piano in Venice and computer music at IRCAM. Tinted with irony, his compositions have been, since his beginning, the result of a never-ending effort to c...

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Composer

Giulia Lorusso

Composer (b. 1990)

Giulia Lorusso studied composition with Alessandro Solbiati at the Milan Conservatory, and then at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris with Frédéric Durieux. In 2015 sh...

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Composer

Philippe Manoury

Composer (b. 1952)

Despite his formal training as a pianist and composer, Philippe Manoury maintans that he is self-taught. His music is often associated with mathematical models and this interest ...

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Composer

François Meïmoun

Composer (b. 1979)

François Meïmoun studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Michaël Levinas, at the University Sorbonne-Paris-IV and at the École des Hautes études (thesis directed by Alain Poir...

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Artist

Fujiko Nakaya

Artist

Fujiko Nakaya was the first artist to use fog as a scultptural media. This does not mean that she doesn’t fashion it as she wishes: her approach consists of a subtile collaboration wi...

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Artist

Pierre Nouvel

Video artist and scenographer (born 1981)

Founder of the trans-disciplinary collective Factoid bringing together video artists, musicians, graphic designers, curators, scenographers, Pierre Nouvel...

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Ensemble

 Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

Taking over the legacy of the first philharmonic orchestra to be created in the 1930s by French radio based on a radio orchestra founded in 1928 by André Messager, the Orchestre Philharmoniq...

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Composer

Emanuele Palumbo

Composer (b. 1987)

The Italien Emanuele Palumbo studied composition with Gabriele Manca at the Milan Conservatory and then at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de ...

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Composer

Alberto Posadas

Composer (b. 1967)

In 1988, Alberto Posadas met the composer Francisco Guerrero, who he considers to be his true master. With him, Posadas explored new forms using cominatory and fractal techniques...

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Ensemble

 Quatuor Diotima

Yun-Peng Zhao, violin, Constance Ronzatti, violin, Franck Chevalier, viola, Pierre Morlet, cello

The Diotima Quartet’s name recalls Luigi Nono’s work Fragmente-Stille an Diotima, affir...

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Composer

Philippe Schœller

Composer (b. 1957)

Philippe Schœller studied under Boulez, Donatoni, and Xenakis. His encounters with Lachenmann, Dutilleux, and Carter were decisive. At IRCAM, he worked on sound synthesis ...

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Choreographer

Alessandro Sciarroni

Choreographer

Alessandro Sciarroni is an Italien performer, choreographer, and director with a background in visual arts. His works have been presented in contemporary dance and theater festivals,...

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Video Artist

Raphaël Thibault

Vidéaste (né en 1980)

Diplômé en 2004 de l’École nationale des arts décoratifs (ENSAD) à Paris, Raphaël Thibault démarre sa carri&...

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Director

Wim Vandekeybus

Director (b. 1963)

After studing psychology, Wim Vandekeybus auditioned for Jan Fabre who offered him a role in 1985. A year later, he founded Ultima Vez. “For me, the form needs to be diffe...

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Director

Ingrid von Wantoch Rekowski

Director

A polyphonic, spry, and poetic theater: the art of Ingrid von Wantoch Rekowski is an “art of the interstitial, of the tangent, of quirk both immaterial like music it always preceeds...