Multilateral
Group

For almost 20 years, the Ensemble has been fully embracing the "multilaterality" that characterizes it and is so dear to its Artistic Director Yann Robin: dissemination of the ensemble repertoire, promotion of varied aesthetics, collaborations with other artistic fields such as musical theater, dance, digital arts and cinema, as well as with leading ensembles (Chœur de Radio France, Les Métaboles, Ensemble intercontemporain, Court-circuit, Cairn, 2e2m, Sillages...). This artistic openness, coupled with a team of excellent, committed musicians, provides an ideal space for creators, giving rise to audacious projects in partnership with Ircam, Le Fresnoy, GMEM, la Muse en Circuit or the ExperimentalStudio SWR Freiburg. Multilatérale has established itself as a major player in French musical creation, with a presence at festivals such as ManiFeste, Festival d'Automne à Paris, Présences and Musica, as well as internationally: Milano Musica, Cervantino (Mexico), Biennale de Venise, Archipel (Geneva), X-Tract (Berlin), Sinkro (Spain) and Sound Ways (St Petersburg). The group also maintains close ties with Southeast Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia). In 2025, Multilatérale will perform at the Festival Propagations (Marseille), the Festival Rainy Days (Luxembourg) and the Festival Traiettorie (Parma).
Since 2020, it has co-organized the Festival Ensemble(s), which combines contemporary repertoire and new works at the Théâtre de l'Échangeur (Bagnolet).
To support the emergence of young composers, the Ensemble has collaborated with composition classes at the CNSMDP and Gennevilliers, and run academies at Sermoneta, Barga and Royaumont. In 2024-2025, it will be working with the Université Paris 8 and taking part in an academy in Timisoara, before hosting ARCo at the GMEM in Marseille, bringing together composition and performance students for ten days of training.

Léo Warynski
Multilateral Management

Léo Warynski trained as a conductor with François-Xavier Roth at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP) and with Pierre Cao (Arsys Bourgogne). A versatile conductor, he conducts both the symphonic and operatic repertoires, and collaborates with renowned ensembles and orchestras such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, Orchestre National de Colombie, Opéra de Rouen, Ensemble Remix, Ensemble Modern and Chœur Accentus. Passionate about contemporary creation, he has conducted the premieres of Sebastian Rivas' opera "Aliados" with Multilatérale (Opéras de Caen, Nancy and Nîmes), Francesco Filidei's "Giordano Bruno" with Ensemble Remix and Ensemble Intercontemporain (Piccolo Teatro de Milan, Théâtre de Caen), and Ahmed Essyad's "Mririda" with the Orchestre et Chœurs de l'Opéra du Rhin (Strasbourg). Recent engagements include conducting the Orchestre National de Colombie in a Berlioz program, the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen in music by Prokofiev, and the Ensemble Intercontemporain at the Festival Musica.
Léo Warynski is musical director of the Ensemble Multilatérale, dedicated to contemporary creation, and of the professional choir Les Métaboles, which he founded in 2010.
- www.leowarynski.com

Ljuba Bergamelli
Soprano

She devotes herself to ^{twentieth-century} and contemporary art, with a particular interest in musical theater, performance and dance theater. She has been invited to festivals and theaters such as La Biennale di Venezia, MilanoMusica, Festival ManiFeste Ircam, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, RomaEuropaFestival, Opera Carlo Felice Genova, Ravenna Festival, Tempo Reale, RSI Lugano, Auditorium Parco della Musica, MiTo. She has been conducted by Marco Angius, Tonino Battista, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Léo Warynski, Yoichi Sugiyama and others. She has recorded for Stradivarius, Ema Vinci and Italian radio and television (RAI). She has sung in numerous creations, many of them dedicated to her, by Ivan Fedele, Vittorio Montalti, Pasquale Corrado, Zeno Baldi, Luca Antignani, Federico Gardella, Daniele Ghisi, Michele Sanna, Gene Coleman, Paolo Aralla, Luca Guidarini...
Alongside her activities as a performer, she is involved in research, giving lectures and masterclasses on the link between body, voice and gesture. Since 2024, she has been a doctoral student at the G.Frescobaldi Conservatory in Ferrara, working on a research project on vocal gesture. One of her essays, entitled "Il Teatro della Voce", has been published by ETS.

Laura Muller
Mezzo-soprano

Following a master's degree in literature and lyric singing in Paris (DEM obtained in 2018), Laura Muller specializes in Lied and mélodie, notably with Françoise Tillard. She benefits from the advice of Regina Werner and Donna Brown, and becomes a laureate of the Académie des Paris Frivoles in 2019. She performs regularly with vocal ensembles such as Les Métaboles (dir. Léo Warynski) and Sequenza 9.3 (dir. Catherine Simonpietri). As solo viola, she collaborates with the Centre de musique de chambre de Paris (dir. Jérôme Pernoo) on the "Bach and Breakfast" cycle. In 2022, she will perform the solo viola in Bach's "Passion selon Saint-Jean" with Le Concert d'Astrée and Ensemble Hemiolia. Active in the contemporary repertoire, Laura Muller takes part in acclaimed premieres: Yann Robin's "Cinq études sacrées" (dir. Léo Warynski, France Musique), Elżbieta Sikora's "The Sixth Commandment" (Szczecin Philharmonic), and Lorenzo Troiani's "Lacrimosa" (Festival Ensemble(s), Paris, 2023).
Franck Bedrossian's "Départs de feu", written for his voice, was premiered for the "Création Mondiale" program (France Musique) and performed again in Zagreb and Marseille.

Pierre Carré
Computer music producer Ircam

Both musician and mathematician, Pierre Carré holds several prizes from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in composition, orchestration, analysis and aesthetics. In parallel with his musical studies, he will be completing a doctorate in mathematics applied to sound synthesis at Ircam in 2021, as part of the Sound Systems and Signals team: Audio / acoustics, instruments. Deeply committed to contemporary creation and musical performance, he is studying conducting, and in 2019 will found an association that encourages bridges between music and the visual arts. Since 2016, he has been working alongside Mâkhi Xenakis to enhance the archives of his father Iannis, a major musical and architectural figure in the post-war avant-garde. On the basis of his work on the archives, he has carried out several research projects on the borderline between the arts and sciences. In 2022, he was a member of the scientific committee for the Iannis Xenakis retrospective exhibition at the Cité de la Musique, and designed a light show in homage to the "Polytopes" for an anniversary concert at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon).