Sébastien Boin
artistic and musical director

Sébastien Boin is part of this new generation of conductors who are passionate about musical creation and have vigorously forged their own ensemble in their own image. Thus was born the instrumental ensemble C Barré, dedicated to musical creation, with which he experiments the double responsibility of artistic and musical direction. Passionate about both instrumental and vocal music, which he believes are naturally complementary, he has a dual career as a conductor and choir director. He is regularly invited to conduct the Radio France Choir, the Avignon-Provence Regional Orchestra, the Basse Normandie Regional Orchestra and the Aix-Marseille University Symphony Orchestra, of which he has been musical and artistic director since 2015. In addition, he has been invited by the Festival d'Aix to conduct Ana Sokolovic's opera Svadba during a three-year international tour starting in 2016.

Nicholas Isherwood
composer

Nicholas Isherwood, a French-American, studied music, literature and theater at Oberlin College (B.M., B.A.), The Actors Centre in London, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes (D.E.A.). An eclectic artist, Isherwood has sung medieval music with Joel Cohen, baroque music with William Christie, Mozart's "Magic Flute" at Salle Pleyel, Wagner's "Master Singers" with Zubin Mehta, several premieres of Karlheinz Stockhausen, and a jazz club night in New York with Steve Lacy. His interest in the music of today has led him to collaborate with composers such as Sylvano Bussotti, Elliot Carter, George Crumb, Mauricio Kagel, György Kurtág, Olivier Messiaen, Giacinto Scelsi, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Iannis Xenakis. Isherwood has sung in the most important theaters in Europe (La Scala, Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Covent Garden, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Châtelet, Salle Pleyel, Royal Festival Hall, Concertgebouw, Munich Biennale, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Moscow Conservatory, Vienna Konzerthaus, Salzburg Festival, Aix-en-Provence Festival, etc.) with renowned orchestras and ensembles (London Philharmonic, Orchestra della RAI di Roma, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, London Sinfonietta, SDR Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, etc.). Isherwood has recorded 56 CDs for labels such as Erato, Naxos and Harmonia Mundi. He has participated in films on Stockhausen, Aperghis and Frize for Arte, WDR and INA. In parallel to his work as a singer, he has directed contemporary musical theater (SMIO d'Orléans, Sons d'Hiver, Parvis St. Jean de Dijon, Teatro Regio de Turin, Oper Stuttgart, etc.), taught singing courses, and worked as a teacher. He has taught singing courses in five languages on French melody (USC), the music of Olivier Messiaen (CNSMDP), baroque singing (Cal State LA) and contemporary singing (IRCAM, Mozarteum of Salzburg, ARIAM, UdK of Berlin, Conservatorio di Milano, etc.), and composed several vocal works (2 DRAC commissions, 1 Art Zoyd commission). Nicolas Isherwood has been called "the absolute vocal diva of our time" by Mya Tannenbaum (Il Corriere della Sera - Italian daily newspaper)

Giacinto Scelsci
composer

Italian composer born in La Spezia in 1905, Giacinto Scelsi studied with Respighi and Casella and achieved his first successes in Paris, notably with the premiere by Pierre Monteux of Rotative for orchestra (1931). He then traveled to the Middle East and America, and studied dodecaphonic techniques in Vienna with Walter Klein (1935-1936). In 1937 he organized a series of concerts of contemporary music in Rome with Petrassi, and during the war he resided in Switzerland, where he collaborated with the journal La Suisse contemporaine while writing numerous musicological essays. From 1952 onwards, as a composer, he turned towards radical solutions sometimes tinged with esotericism or mysticism, and which make him recognizable to Ligeti or Feldman as well as to members of the current young generation.

Samir Odeh Tamimi
composer

Samir Odeh Tamimi was born in 1970 in Jaljulya. From 1984 to 1989, the Israeli-Palestinian composer was a keyboardist and percussionist in various renowned traditional Arab music groups. He studied music from 1992 to 1996 at the University of Kiel, then composition with Younghi Pagh-Paan and music analysis with Günter Steinke at the Bremen School of Fine Arts. Since 1999, he has been composing works for soloists, choirs, instrumental ensembles and orchestras, which are characterized by a musical density evolving over a relatively short period of time. They are mainly written for traditional instruments. Odeh Tamimi's work is a successful synthesis of avant-garde New Music with European influences and the musical traditions of his country.

ZadMoultaka
composer

Zad Moultaka, composer, born in Lebanon in 1967, has been pursuing for several years a personal research on the musical language, integrating the fundamental data of the western contemporary writing - structures, tendencies, families and signs - to the specific characters of the Arabic music - monody, heterophony, modality, rhythms, vocality... This research touches many fields of experimentation... The slow maturation of a very personal form of expression has given birth, since 2003, to a series of works whose production has gradually expanded, from choral music to ensemble music, from chamber music to solo vocal music, from electroacoustics to sound installations and choreography...