Clara Barbier Serrano
From an early age, Clara Barbier Serrano learned to sing by exploring vowels, diphthongs, and triphthongs. After ten years at the Montpellier Conservatory, she decided to turn to opera singing. She then continued her studies in Paris, Leipzig, London, and then again in Paris. Throughout her travels, she refined her vocal technique and developed a close relationship with poetry, which led her to make Lied and Melody her favorite repertoire. Since 2021, she has formed a duo with pianist Joanna Kacperek. Together, they have participated in numerous international competitions, traveled, engaged in alternative platforms such as Liedinnovation, and won several prizes, notably at the Wolf Wettbewerb in Stuttgart and the Lyon Chamber Music Competition in 2024 and 2025. At the same time, a need for physicality led her to the opera stage. She has performed roles such as the Queen of the Night (Mozart), the Controller in Jonathan Dove's Flight, Olympia (The Tales of Hoffmann), the Little Mermaid (Régis Campo), and Elisabeth in Philip Glass's Les Enfants terribles. As her principles in life are rarely reflected in older repertoires, she has turned to contemporary and creative music. She collaborates with composers such as Martin Matalon and Anne Le Bozec, and with ensembles such as Ensemble Écoute and Le Balcon. In 2025, she released her first CD, Woven Words, dedicated to the links between words and sounds.
Julia Sinoimeri
Julia began playing the accordion at the CRD in Mulhouse. She graduated with a Master's degree in accordion, a prize in Generative Improvisation and a DE from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in 2022, and an Artist Diploma in 2024. An eclectic artist, Julia performs regularly in solo recitals as well as chamber music, offering a repertoire ranging from baroque to contemporary music and tango. Passionate about theater, she works with Alexandre Martin-Varroy for the show If Music be the Food of Love, and with the Ensemble TM+ for Horace le Coucou. Her desire to create and promote contemporary music led her to co-found the trio "L'Impolie" in 2019. She has been invited to perform with the Ensemble Cairn, the Ensemble TM+, Les Surprises, La Clef des Chants, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, and the Paris Opera.
Gwen Rouger
Since everything is destined to disappear,Gwen Rouger is only interested in the moment of encounter and what it creates: a time of doubt, adaptation, listening, trial, and research, for both the artist and the audience. As a pianist, she designs musical performances that place encounters and human relationships at the center of the experience. Her writing, which she defines as "relational music," incorporates protocols that allow live music to be transformed according to interactions with the audience. She directs the company ENTRE, which offers piano performances for a single spectator in public spaces (Caravan, Construction Tent, Cattle Truck), as well as the performance Digestion for solo keytar. She has been artist-in-residence at the Cité des Arts, the Akademie Schloss Solitude, and the Château de La Roche Guyon. She is associate composer at the Théâtre de Vanves for the 25/26 and 26/27 seasons.
