Sébastien Boin
musical and artistic director

Born in 1984, Sébastien Boin began learning music with classical guitar in the classes of Philippe Azoulay and Alexandre Boulanger. At the CNRR in Marseille, he studied chamber music and composition before turning to conducting. He graduated from the Conservatory in 2007 with a first prize in Roland Hayrabedian's conducting class. He continued his studies by entering Musicology at the Sorbonne (Paris IV), while completing his training in several interpretation classes and conducting projects organized by the ARIAM Ile de France. At the same time, he collaborates with the Radio France Choir, the Contemporary Choir, the European Chamber Orchestra AME, the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra, before being regularly invited by the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra as a citharist. In 2015, Sébastien Boin took over the artistic and musical direction of the new orchestra "OSAMU", symphony orchestra of the University of Aix-Marseille. He currently teaches music direction at the CFMI of Aix en Provence and is regularly invited by the Avignon Provence Regional Orchestra and the Basse Normandie Regional Orchestra.

Ensemble C Barré
instrumental ensemble

C Barré, an instrumental ensemble formed and directed by Sébastien Boin, is above all the fruit of a meeting between 12 musicians. This singular group, currently associated with the GMEM, is made up of rich, passionate personalities deeply invested in the creation and dissemination of contemporary repertoire. The predominance of plucked strings, as well as instruments whose use was only exceptional until recently, is undoubtedly linked to the personal journey of Sébastien Boin. Based in Marseille, which is both the first port and the oldest city in France, it is easy to notice C Barré's regular attachment to composers from the Mediterranean basin. Eager to share today's music with as many people as possible and at the highest artistic level, the ensemble engages in profound and ambitious programs of mediation and transmission around each of its concerts and performances. The Ensemble C Barré is supported by its patrons, the Caisse des Dépôts and the Orange Foundation.

Francisco Alvarado
composer

Francisco Alvarado's work is marked by the exploration of timbre through the manipulation and instrumentation of complex sounds that, varied and transformed, are projected in time trying to constitute a poetic and living musical discourse. He studied composition at the Universidad Católica de Chile and then at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, in the class of Stefano Gervasoni. The encounter with Gervasoni, as well as with other composers such as Alberto Posadas, Philippe Manoury, Hèctor Parra or Brian Ferneyhough, were very important in shaping a personal language and an original musical project. Between 2013 and 2015, he attended the Cursus 1 & 2 courses at Ircam, in Paris. He was laureate of the Academy of Festival Musica and received the CMDC prize at the INJUVE academy, in Madrid. These pieces have been commissioned by the Royaumont Foundation, the Diotima Quartet, the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse de Paris, the Messiaen Festival, the United Instruments of Lucilin, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Ensemble C Barré, the gmem-CNCM-marseille, Ircam and the Festival Musica. He was artist in residence at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis in 2017 and at the Lucilin Ensemble, the ExperimentalStudio of the SWR and the gmem-CNCM-marseille in 2019.

Birke Bertelsmeier
composer

Birke Bertelsmeier studied piano with Pavel Gililov at the Musikhochschule in Cologne and composition with Wolfgang Rihm at the Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe. Her compositions have been performed by the Arditi Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann, Christoph Eschenbach (with the Bamberger Symphoniker) and the Ensemble Modern. She is a guest at festivals such as the Munich Biennale, the Wittener Tage für Neue Musik and the Heidelberg Spring Festival. In 2012, she was awarded the Schneider-Schott Prize and a scholarship from the International Academy of Ensemble Modern. In 2013, she was a resident at the Villa Massimo in Rome, where she wrote an opera after Querelle by Jean Genet, which was premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in June 2014. In 2015, she won the Ernst von Siemens Composition Prize. Birke is currently a resident at Villa Concordia in Bamberg.

Giulia Lorusso
composer

Giulia Lorusso studied piano and then composition with Alessandro Solbiati at the Milan Conservatory where she graduated in 2014. In 2015, she studied orchestration and analysis with Allain Gaussin, then, she attended the Cursus of composition and computer music at Ircam under the supervision of Hèctor Parra. The same year, she joined the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in the composition class of Frédéric Durieux, and the electroacoustic composition classes of Yan Maresz and Luis Naón. For the year 2019-2020, she participates in the Ircam's Artistic Research program with a project focused on the generative aspects of Artificial Intelligence applied to sound. Her music has been performed by Quartetto Prometeo, Ensemble Nikel, KNM ensemble, mdi Ensemble, Distractfold Ensemble, Divertimento Ensemble, Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra and soloists of the Ensemble Intercontemporain. Giulia Lorusso has received commissions from the Spinola-Banna Foundation (Turin, Italy), Radio-France, ProQuartet, the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik (Bludenz, Austria) with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation.

Francesca Verunelli
composer

Francesca Verunelli studied composition with Rosario Mirigliano and piano with Stefano Fiuzzi at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence, where she obtained both diplomas summa cum laude. She finished her studies at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome, with Azio Corghi. In 2008, she joined the Cursus of Composition and Computer Music at Ircam and received the same year a Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale. She has been commissioned by important musical institutions and festivals such as Ircam, the NeueVocalsolisten Stuttgart, the Venice Biennale, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Milano Musica, Accentus Chamber Choir, Lucerne Symphonic Orchestra, Court-Circuit, the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, the GMEM of Marseille, the CIRM of Nice, the French State, FACE Foundation, the Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik and many others. Ircam-Centre Pompidou