Created in 2019 by composers Yann Robin, Henry Fourès and Elisabeth Gutjahr, this academy is aimed at the new generation of female composers, composers and performers, and aims to guide them in their training and support them in their professional integration.

A collaboration between the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria, the GMEM and the ensembles Multilatérale and Les Métaboles, it takes place alternately in Salzburg and Marseille.

The 2025 edition will take place from July 2 to 12, 2025 at the GMEM - Centre national de création musicale, and will offer 12 carefully selected young composers, 6 singers, 4 instrumentalists and one assistant conductor, training in excellence alongside an expert teaching team with a wide range of aesthetic backgrounds.

In total immersion, they will be taught by Yann Robin, Francesco Filidei, Eva Reiter, Sarah Nemtsov, Johannes Maria Staud, Valérie Philippin, Matteo Cesari, Alain Billard, Pieter Jansen, Pablo Tognan, Elisabeth Gutjahr and Léo Warynski.

Contributing to this creative effervescence, soloists from the ensembles Multilatérale and Les Métaboles, directed by Léo Warynski, will accompany the students and work hand-in-hand with them, placing cooperation at the heart of the exchanges.

To make the experience even richer, several concerts will be held throughout the academy and will be offered to all audiences. As a fervent defender of contemporary repertoire and creation, ARCo proposes a varied program combining major existing works and creations by the trainees, ensembles and artists present.

During this time of encounter, transmission, exchange and sharing are at the heart of relationships and spread among all participants: ARCo stimulates a social ebullition charged with inventiveness, and becomes a fertile ground for experimentation and creation.