Corentin Marillier
Percussionist
Corentin Marillier is a percussionist, performer, and composer whose musical world lies at the intersection of experimental, classical, and traditional music.
As co-founder and artistic advisor of the ensembles Soundtrieb and Semblance, his work explores the interdisciplinary connections between music, performance, and installation, focusing on a post-instrumental practice that combines both auditory and visual elements. Working to break down barriers between practices and aesthetics, he is involved in both contemporary classical music and experimental trends, notably through a series of interviews with young artists that he has published under the titleConversations.
As a percussionist and soloist, he has collaborated (among others) with Simon Steen-Andersen, Cathy van Eck, Jessie Cox, Ariadna Alsina Tarrès, Jérôme Combier, Kasper Toeplitz, Bastien David, and Emilio Guim, and works with Ircam, the Royaumont Foundation, and the Philharmonie de Paris on artistic and educational projects. Since February 2023, he has been co-artistic director of the Eklekto collective in Geneva.

Jérôme Combier
Composer
Jérôme Combier is a composer and the founder of the Cairn ensemble. He studied at the Paris Conservatory (with Emmanuel Nunes), worked regularly at Ircam with Philippe Leroux (Stèles d’air, Gone, Dawnlight), and traveled to Japan (Akiyoshidaï), Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan (Conservatories of Tashkent and Almaty). In 2005, he created Vies silencieuses for Cairn with painter Raphaël Thierry, and in 2008, the installation Noir gris with video artist Pierre Nouvel for the Beckett exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou. He wrote Estran for the Ensemble Recherche, commissioned by the Festival d’Automne in Paris, and then Stèles d’air for the Ensemble Intercontemporain. In 2007, his music was performed at the Louvre as part of the “Le Louvre invite Pierre Boulez” series. Later, the Louvre programmed Tokyo no oto, a project he conceived with visual artist Yannick Jacquet, the Cairn ensemble, and Les Cris de Paris in 2022. Jérôme Combier was a resident at the Villa Medici from 2005 to 2006 and a guest at the Venice Biennale in 2020. In 2011, he adapted W.G. Sebald’s novel Austerlitz for the stage, premiering at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and the Opéra de Lille, in collaboration with Pierre Nouvel and Bertrand Couderc. In 2017, with the same team , he conceived the multimedia project *Campo santo*, premiered at IRCAM and the National Theaters of Orléans, Besançon, and Quimper. In 2012, he wrote the opera *Terre et cendres* with Atiq Rahimi, commissioned by the Opéra de Lyon. From 2018 to 2022, Jérôme Combier collaborated with Hervé Robbe on the works In extenso and Sollicitudes. He works with the ensembles Ictus, Recherche, 2e2m, Accroche Note, Utopik, Court-circuit, and Multilatérale. He has given masterclasses at the University of Berkeley, the conservatories of Antwerp and Lugano, the Abbaye de Royaumont, UNESP University in São Paulo, and McGill University in Montreal. In 2024, he was a visiting professor at the University of Graz. Jérôme Combier’s music is published by Éditions Lemoine and Verlag Neue Musik (Berlin); and is recorded by the Motus and Æon labels (Vies silencieuses – Grand Prix de l’Académie Charles Cros). Jérôme Combier received the SACD New Talents Award and a grant from the Koussevitzky Foundation, Library of Washington (USA). He teaches at the University of Paris-8. 

Étienne Démoulin
Computer Music Producer
Étienne Démoulin is a computer music producer. A computer music producer is both a musician whose instrument is a digital or electronic tool and a participant in contemporary creation whose goal is to bridge the gap between musical research practices (theoretical and practical work by contemporary researchers) and artistic creation. Étienne Démoulin creates works of mixed media music, focusing his research on alternative sound production techniques (transducers, embedded and distributed audio). He performs electronic music in concert, notably with ensembles such as Le Balcon and Les Percussions de Strasbourg. He handles sound engineering for concerts and contributes to the development of new sound engineering techniques for live performance. In September 2022, he joined the Next ensemble as part of the postgraduate “Artist Diploma” program at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.