Juliette Raffin-Gay
sound artist

Juliette Raffin-Gay was born in Rouen, where she studied singing, piano and dance at the Regional Conservatory in parallel with a degree in Musicology at the Faculty. She then studied at the CNSMDP where she benefited from the teachings of Alain Buet, Isabelle Guillaud, Anne Le Bozec, Emmanuelle Cordoliani, Kenneth Weiss... She won several prizes at the international singing competitions of Arles and Ernst Haefliger (Gstaad) in Switzerland. Sensitive to the creation and mediation of her art, she enjoys performing with Oswald Sallaberger and the instrumental ensemble La Maison Illuminée, interpreting arias, melodies and lieder arranged and orchestrated for various groups. In oratorio, she has been heard as a soloist in collaboration with various choirs in the Normandy and Paris regions in Mozart's and Gounod's Requiem, Vivaldi's Gloria, Beethoven's Mass in C, Rutter's Mass of the Children, Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle , Handel's Israel in Egypt ... In opera, she has worked under the direction of Michel Laplénie, Vincent Dumestre, Robert Houssart, Alain Altinoglu, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Emmanuel Olivier... She has been heard as Honor and a Mermaid in Purcell's King Arthur, as Micaela in Bizet's Carmen, as Lisa in Franz Lehar's Land of Smiles, as the Sandman in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, the Little Match Girl in August Enna's opera, Eurydice in Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice, Rowan in Benjamin Britten's The Little Chimney Sweep, Venus in Wagner's Tannhäuser, Servilia in Mozart's Clemency of Titus, Aloes in Chabrier's The Star. She has an affinity for the multiple aspects of vocal art and sings in the vocal ensembles Les Affinités Electives and Accentus a varied repertoire ranging from Gregorian chant to modern music. These projects include the role of Servilia in La Clémence de Titus as part of the Classica festival in Quebec. In June 2018 she will perform in partnership with IRCAM, the work for voice and electronic tapeYou'll Drown, dear by the composer Sivan Eldar, which opened the doors to a new and unlimited repertoire.

Louise Akili
sound artist

Pianist Louise Akili graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (classes of Anne Le Bozec and Claire Désert) and from the Pôle Supérieur de Paris-Boulogne (classes of Hugues Leclère and Philippe Ferro). She is currently following the training course for the CA of piano teacher at the CNSMDP. Holder of the State Diploma, she teaches piano at the Chopin Conservatory of the 15th district of Paris. Having received precious advice from Cécile Emery, Macha Belooussova, Christian Ivaldi, Jeff Cohen, Yves Henry and Emmanuel Olivier, she enjoys playing as a soloist as well as in chamber music ensembles and enjoys the marriage of arts, her activity as a dancer being one of the aspects of it. A laureate of the Royaumont Foundation and the Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris, Louise performs regularly in concerts in France and abroad. She has performed at the Nohant Chopin Festival, the Saint-Ursanne Piano Festival in Switzerland, the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest, the Grand Théâtre de Provence, the Arsenal de Metz, the Avignon Festival, the Kiosque de Nancy, at the Théâtre Impérial in Compiègne and in Paris at the Centre Pompidou, at the Théâtre du Châtelet, at the Hôtel de Béhague, at the Grand Salon des Invalides, at the Musée Delacroix, at the Petit Palais, at the Théâtre de l'Ile Saint-Louis, at the Salle Cortot, at the Musée d'Orsay as well as at the Philharmonie. Curious to discover a varied repertoire, the young artist excels in a wide range of music from the baroque period to contemporary creation within all possible formations. Louise regularly collaborates with soprano Axelle Fanyo, violinists Rachel Koblyakov and Hugues Borsarello, cellists Thomas Chartré and Raphaël Ginzburg as well as with composer Olga Neuwirth. She also performed with the Orchestre Français des Jeunes in 2014 under the direction of Dennis Russell Davies. In 2013, Louise performed Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire at the CRR in Paris. Louise perfected her skills at the Académie Ravel 2018 in the classes of Marie-Josèphe Jude and Miguel Da Silva. The quartet formed by Pierre Alvarez, Thomas Levier, Edward Luengo and Louise Akili receives the Fond Dany Pouchucq endowment for their performance of Guillaume Lekeu's Piano Quartet. In October 2018, Louise is the recipient of the Nguyen Thien Dao Fellowship from the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Center.

Núria Giménez-Comas
sound artist

Núria Giménez-Comas studied piano in Barcelona, then mathematics, before turning to composition, in which she trained with C. Havel. Havel introduced her to pure electroacoustics and the importance of timbre work, whether it be timbral and harmonic expansion, timbre/harmonic cohesion or the interaction between the computer and the instrumentalist. After a last year with Mauricio Sotelo, with whom she finished her bachelor thesis on "Music and Mathematics", she continued her studies at the HEM of Geneva with M. Jarrell, L. Naon and E. Daubresse. In her master thesis, she worked on some phenomena of sound perception (developing research on concepts such as the sound image). She was then selected to do the Ircam curriculum with projects on physical model synthesis and a project on sound scenes with the ambisonics 3D spatialization system. She attended academies with professors such as Chaya Czernowin, Brian Ferneyhough and Kaija Saariaho. She also works with orchestras such as OCG (Orchestre de Chambre de Genève), Brussels Philarmonic, Geneva Camerata and Orchestre de Cadaqués and with conductors such as Michel Tabachnik and David Robertson. She is very interested in collaborative work with other artists such as actors Michel Derville, Lambert Wilson and video artist Dan Browne. She is working on a close collaboration with the poet Laure Gauthier on a long piece of "poetic architecture". She recently completed the Artistic Research Residency at Ircam/ZKM with Marlon Schumacher on the subject of "Synthetic Sculptures in Space", finalizing her work with 3D installations in promenade format. She has been a prizewinner in numerous competitions such as the Colegio de España (Paris)-INAEM 2012 Prize and the first prize in the International Edison-Denisov Competition. These pieces have been played by renowned performers such as the Diotima Quartet, the Ensemble Contrechamps, the trio of the Klangforum Wien, the Spirito Choir among others.She has received commissions from several musicians and orchestras such as Proxima Centauri, Orquestra de Cadaqués, Laurent Mariusse, Aleph Guitar Quartet, and institutions such as Radio France, Grame and Ircam, receiving support from the Ministry of Culture and Communication, INAEM and the SGAE Foundation among others. She gives master-classes and conferences on mixed music, on her work and her research in centers such as Ircam, ZKM, ICST, or the Conservatoire de Bordeaux. She is very interested in the didactic applications of today's music and has realized several pedagogical projects (with presentations, pedagogical pieces and also interventions in schools) in different settings in France and Spain.

Sivan Eldar
sound artist

Originally from Tel Aviv, Sivan Eldar (b. 1985) holds a B.A. in composition from New England Conservatory and a Ph.D. in composition from UC Berkeley under the direction of Franck Bedrossian and Edmund Campion. She also studied computer music at CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio Technologies - UC Berkeley) and Ircam (Cursus 2016-17) with Hèctor Parra. Sivan's work includes close collaborations with musicians from the classical and non-classical worlds, as well as artists in theater, dance, and the visual arts. His projects have been supported by the Fulbright, Civitella Ranieri, and Royaumont foundations, as well as the Cité Internationale des Arts, Ircam, ENOA (European Network of Opera Academies), Snape Maltings, and the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, among others. More recently, his compositions have been performed at the ManiFeste festival at the Centre Pompidou, Rainy Days at the Philharmonie Luxembourg, Présences at the Maison de la Radio, Ultraschall Berlin and Prague Spring. Sivan is currently working on various commissions for the Accentus Choir (Donaueschingen Musiktage), the Musicatreize Ensemble (Philharmonie de Paris) and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris (Théâtre de Châtelet). Since fall 2019, she is also composer-in-residence with the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier. In collaboration with writer Cordelia Lynn, she is developing her first opera, Like flesh, a commission from the Opéra de Lille in co-production with the Opéras de Nancy and Montpellier, Ircam and the Ensemble Le Balcon. Her music is published by Éditions Durand/Universal Music Classical.