Ondřej Adámek
Composer

Born in Prague, Ondřej Adámek received his composition degree from the Prague Academy of Music and his Composition Prize in 2006 from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he also studied orchestration, electroacoustics, conducting and Indian music. Fascinated by other cultures, he assimilates all the aesthetics he comes across. As a teenager, he played the organ, tablas and flutes, then discovered Noh theater, Bunraku and Zen Buddhist rituals. He immersed himself in flamenco in Spain and developed specific playing techniques, made instruments, and was initiated into Hinduism in India, as well as in Bali where he studied gamelan. His works reveal all these influences, marking them with a specific sound color which, combined with a powerful rhythmic and a solid formal architecture, creates a personal music not exempt from dramaturgy. He has also been active as a conductor since 2013, and in 2018 is conducting his opera Alles klappt at the Munich Biennale and his opera Seven Stones at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. He conducts Ensemble Moderne, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Kammerensemble Neue Musik, Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Chorwerk Ruhr, Accentus, Oslo Sinfonietta, Ensemble 2E2M, Ensemble Prague Modern, Ensemble Ilinx, as well as the Ensemble de musicien-ne-s d'Orchestre national de Lille. In 2014-2015, Adámek was a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome, where he wrote his opera Seven Stones, premiered in 2018 at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, and completed the making of Airmachine. The Concerto for Violin and Orchestra he wrote for Isabelle Faust was premiered by the Bavarian Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra and Peter Rundel in December 2017. Ondřej Adámek received numerous commissions for orchestral, choral, and ensemble works, sometimes with electronics. Among his commissioners are as many prestigious ensembles as European festivals of contemporary music such as London Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Klangforum Vienna, Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, Diotima Quartet, or the German festivals of Donaueschingen and Witten. Adamek forms N.E.S.E.V.E.N., an original vocal ensemble dedicated to creations.

N.E.S.E.V.E.N.
Musical ensemble

The idea of founding the young vocal ensemble N.E.S.E.V.E.N. (Never Ending Searching for Exact Vocal Expression and Nuances) emerged during the development of Seven Stones, an opera by Ondřej Adámek, which was staged by Éric Oberdorff for the 2018 Aix-en-Provence Festival. N.E.S.E.V.E.N. focuses in its artistic work on the search for the natural aspects of the voice and the authenticity and precision of vocal expression. In 2018, the ensemble was invited to the Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, among others, and in 2020 to Paris (Festival Présence/Radio France), in 2022 to Marseille (Festival Propagations) and to Venice (Biennale Musica).

The members of N.E.S.E.V.E.N. are:
Ondřej Adámek, composer, conductor
Éric Oberdorff, choreographer
Olga Siemienczuk, Shigeko Hata, Landy Andriamboavonjy, Nicolas Simeha, Steve Zheng, Paul-Alexandre Dubois, voices, objects

Éric Oberdorff
Choreographer

French dancer, choreographer, director and producer, Eric Oberdorff discovered movement through martial arts. After his dance studies, he travelled the world for sixteen years as a dancer-performer.
In 2002, he founded the Compagnie Humaine with which he creates interdisciplinary projects for the stage and the screen, integrating choreography, music, image, text, and plastic installation. He accompanies his creative work with multiple actions with the public, with a particular attention to the youngest and people in situations of social fragility. In 2010, he co-founded the European cooperation network 'Studiotrade'. Since 2017, he is also choreographer and director of the ensemble N.E.S.E.V.E.N. (Germany). Since 2021, Eric is an associate artist at Scène 55, Mougins (France), where he is regularly invited to create choreographies and stagings for prestigious companies in France and abroad, and his works have received numerous international awards.

Human Company

Founded in 2002, the Compagnie Humaine brings together artists from all walks of life with whom it develops ambitious multidisciplinary projects for the stage, the screen and alternative spaces. Its choreographer and director Éric Oberdorff creates pieces with universal themes that place the human being at the heart of the creation. The Compagnie Humaine has more than thirty pieces to its credit, performed on tour in France and abroad. It is a recognized player in the artistic and cultural life of its territory. Attached to the democratization of contemporary dance and very involved in the socio-cultural fabric, the company is also strongly involved in its missions of education, training and transmission.