Juliet Fraser
soprano

Soprano Juliet Fraser specializes in the more delicate aspects of contemporary classical music. She is internationally recognized as a committed interpreter of new music, appearing regularly as guest soloist with the ensembles Musikfabrik, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, Plus-Minus and Talea. She also remains a key member of the vocal ensemble EXAUDI, which she co-founded in 2002 with composer/conductor James Weeks. Juliet Fraser is an active commissioner of new music, and has worked closely with composers Pascale Criton, Michael Finnissy, Bernhard Lang, Cassandra Miller and Rebecca Saunders. Her recordings have been released on labels such as Kairos, Hat Hut, NMC, HCR and Another Timbre. She is also founder and artistic director of the Eavesdropping series in London and co-director of All that dust, a new label for creative music.

Lawrence Dunn
composer, pianist, percussionist, improviser, writer

Lawrence Dunn was born in Walthamstow and is currently based in Manchester. His works have been performed by the Bozzini Quartet, Juliet Fraser, Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Sarah Saviet, Plus-Minus Ensemble, Apartment House, Slagwerk den Haag, Philip Thomas and the Set Ensemble. His works have been performed at the Tectonics Festival, Glasgow; Festival of Sound, Aberdeen; Klangspuren Schwaz; the London Contemporary Music Festival; Gaudeamus Musicweek, Utrecht, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Dutch national radio station NPO 4. Lawrence Dunn teaches in Huddersfield and Cambridge, and has also taught music at Rushey Green Primary School, Catford. He studied at Trinity College of Music (junior department) and Cambridge, and is currently completing a doctorate at Huddersfield with Bryn Harrison.

SivanEldar
composer

Born in Israel, Sivan Eldar began her musical training at the age of five in Tel Aviv, studying piano and voice. At fifteen, she moved to New Mexico (USA) to continue her training at United World College, where she studied composition, piano and ethnomusicology. She then studied at the New England Conservatory (Boston) and at the University of California, Berkeley, where she completed a doctorate in composition under the direction of Franck Bedrossian, Edmund Campion and Cindy Cox. Over the years, Sivan Eldar has broadened her mastery of instruments, whether acoustic, electric or electronic. In 2016-2017, Sivan Eldar took part in Ircam's Cursus de composition et d'informatique, where she perfected her handling of MaxMSP, OpenMusic and Antescofo software. Since 2017, her works have been published by Durand-Salabert-Eschig. From autumn 2019, she will be composer-in-residence at the Orchestre National de Montpellier. She is working with Cordelia Lynn on her first opera, Like flesh, commissioned by the Opéra de Lille for its 2021-2022 season, in co-production with Ircam and Le Balcon.
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Rebecca Saunders
composer

British-born Rebecca Saunders is one of the leading international composers of her generation. Her compositions focus on the sculptural and spatial properties of organized sound, often created in close collaboration with a variety of musicians and artists. Saunders has received numerous awards, including the 2019 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize. She is a professor at HMTM Hannover and a member of the Berlin, Dresden and Munich Academies of the Arts.
- www.rebeccasaunders.net

Adrien Trybucki
composer

Born in 1993, Adrien Trybucki devotes his work as a composer to acoustic, mixed and electronic music. The obsessive nature of his writing is evident from his first opuses, which won him the Île de créations prize in 2014, the Francis and Mica Salabert foundation prize in 2018 and the Académie des Beaux-Arts prize in 2019. In residence at the Cité internationale des arts de Paris in 2018-2019, he is the author of over thirty works, published by BabelScores and Durand-Universal and broadcast on various national radio stations in Europe. His music, driven by an impulsive, unchanging energy, has been performed in a dozen countries around the world, notably at the Manifeste, Présences, Archipel, Lucerne, Cheltenham and Royaumont festivals, by numerous performers of his generation and renowned ensembles. Upcoming projects include collaborations with the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Jérôme Comte, Juliet Fraser, the KDM trio and the XAMP duo. After studying in Toulouse and obtaining a Master's degree from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon with Philippe Hurel, Adrien Trybucki attended the composition and computer music course at Ircam. His compositional thinking has also been shaped by encounters with his peers, notably during master classes and international academies.
- www.adrientrybucki.fr

Alexis Baskind
musician, sound engineer, computer music producer

Alexis Baskind is a musician, sound engineer and computer music producer. Trained as a sound engineer in Benoit Fabre's class at the Conservatoire National de Région d'Aubervilliers/la-Courneuve, he concurrently pursued scientific and technical studies (electrical engineering, signal processing, applied mathematics), and in 1999 joined Ircam, where he conducted research in room acoustics, culminating in a doctorate in 2003. Since then, he has collaborated with numerous composers, musicians and production structures, including Ircam, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, the Campagnie des Musiques à Ouïr and the Centre International de Recherche Musicale (Nice). He has worked alongside composers (Philippe Leroux, Beat Furrer, Hanspeter Kyburz, Héctor Parra, Rebecca Saunders...) and stage director Jean-François Peyret, on studio productions and creations for dance, theater and music, blending electroacoustics with traditional instrumentarium. He regularly collaborates on artistic and technical projects requiring the development of specific sound processing and design solutions, and interfacing with gestural or visual capture technologies.

Ircam
institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique

Ircam is one of the world's largest public research centers dedicated to musical creation and scientific research. A unique place where artistic prospective and scientific and technological innovation converge, the institute is directed by Frank Madlener and employs over one hundred and sixty people. Ircam develops its three main axes - creation, research and transmission - through a season in Paris, tours in France and abroad, and two annual events: ManiFeste, which combines an international festival and a multidisciplinary academy, and the Vertigo forum, which exposes technical mutations and their perceptible effects on artistic creation. Founded by Pierre Boulez, Ircam is associated with the Centre Pompidou under the supervision of the French Ministry of Culture. The STMS (Sciences et technologies de la musique et du son) joint research unit, housed at Ircam, is also supervised by the CNRS and Sorbonne University. In 2020, Ircam created Ircam Amplify, its audio innovation marketing company. A genuine bridge between state-of-the-art audio research and the world of industry, Ircam Amplify is helping to revolutionize sound in the 21st century.