Anne Castex
Composer
Anne Castex is a composer of instrumental, electroacoustic and mixed music. She studied piano and completed a Master's degree in Musicology at the Université Toulouse 2 Jean-Jaurès, during which she became interested in contemporary music and the creative process. She then began a course in instrumental and electroacoustic composition at the Toulouse Conservatory in Bertrand Dubedout's class. Currently a student at the CNSMD in Lyon, she obtained her DNSPM with honors in composition (mixed music) in Michele Tadini's class in 2022. For her Master's degree, she studied instrumental composition with composer Martin Matalon, Daniel D'Adamo and Aurélien Dumont. Laureate of the Academie ManiFeste - IRCAM, and of the Luxembourg Composition Academy with the ensemble United Instruments of Lucilin and composers Philippe Leroux and Elena Mendoza. She has received commissions from Ensemble Multilatérale, Ina-GRM, GRAME-CNCM and Radio France (Création mondiale program). Her works have been performed at the MANCA Festival (Nice), the ByPass Forum, the Philharmonie de Paris and the Maison de Radio-France. She is also involved in teaching, and for several years has been running electroacoustic sound creation workshops for schoolchildren with GRAME in Lyon. Winner of the Société Générale C'est vous l'avenir Foundation grant for 2024/2025.

Bernhard Gander
Composer
Bernhard Gander studied piano, conducting and composition at the Tyrolean Conservatory in Innsbruck and at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz. From 2000 to 2004, he studied composition with Beat Furrer. He also trained in electroacoustic music at Studio UPIC in Paris under Julio Estrada and Curtis Roads in 1994-1995, and at the Swiss Zentrum für Computermusic in Zurich in 1997. In 2004, he was awarded the Musikförderungspreis composition prize by the City of Vienna, and in 2006 he received a commission from the Erste Bank, which led to the creation of Bunny Games, a piece inspired both by playfulness (Bugs Bunny) and history (Scarlatti), which received enthusiastic reviews. In 2007, the Kairos label and the Klangforum Wien ensemble dedicated a monographic CD to him. His works have been performed in Zurich, Paris, New York, Seattle, Greece, Japan, Korea and at major festivals. Bernhard Gander has received commissions from the Vienna Konzerthaus for Der Melonenbaum (2000), from the Klangforum Wien ensemble - Leim (2004) -, several commissions from Ensemble Modern, the festivals musikprotokoll, Wien Modern, Klangspuren - Horribile dictu (2007) - and Donaueschinger Musiktage, where he premiered Beine und Strümpfe (2007). In 2010, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra premieres Dirty Angel under Susanna Mälkki, and the Arditti Quartet performs Khul in Darmstadt. In May 2011, the Wiener Festwochen festival premiered melting pot for dj, rapper, slam poets, breakdancers, multivocal beatboxer and orchestra, and in 2012, his ensemble piece take nine was premiered by the Ensemble intercontemporain. Das Leben am Rande der Milchstrasse, a sitcom opera in seven episodes, with libretto by Johannes Heide and Christa Salchner, premiered at the Bregenzer Festpiele 2015 (Austria) by ensemble Phace. Cold Cadaver with Thirteen Scary Scars, for Hammond organ, electric bass, percussion and ensemble, premiered at the Donaueschinger Musiktage in 2016 by Steamboat and Klangforum Wien. In 2021, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture awarded him the Outstanding Artist Award für Musik. - Ircam-Centre Pompidou, 2021

Anthony Girard
Composer
Born in 1959 in New York, Anthony Girard trained at the CNSM in Paris, where he won five First Prizes, as well as at the Sorbonne. A resident at the Casa de Velázquez (1986–1988), he won the Besançon competition and the Paul Belmondo Prize. His orchestral works have been recorded on several occasions for Naxos, Harp&Co, and Folle Avoine. He collaborates with numerous French and international orchestras and ensembles, and works with renowned soloists. His catalog covers orchestral, chamber, choral, and vocal music. Alongside his career as a composer, he is actively involved as a teacher and theorist. He has published a book on orchestration, a series of musical analysis notebooks, and a two-volume treatise that won an award from Sacem. He is also the author of essays and analyses on musical creation. Anthony Girard teaches orchestration at the CNSMDP and analysis at the CRR in Paris.

Jonathan Harvey
Composer
British composer Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012) began his career as a chorister before studying music at Cambridge. Influenced by Britten, he studied composition with disciples of Schoenberg, which led him to dodecaphonic music. His meeting with Milton Babbitt at Princeton marked his openness to emerging musical technologies. He also crossed paths with Stockhausen, with whom he shared a quest for spirituality and sonic exploration. From the 1980s onwards, he worked at Ircam, where he created several landmark works combining instruments and electronics. Harvey is also interested in spectral music, which he sees as a major turning point. His work spans all genres, including opera and choral music. He is internationally recognized as one of the great innovators of electroacoustic music. A respected teacher and researcher, he has received numerous awards throughout his career.

Cristina Papi
Composer
Cristina Papi graduated with honors in Modern Letters from the University of Siena, after studying in Paris and at the University of Edinburgh. In 2018, she obtained a PhD in Research and Creation at the University of Paris 8 under the direction of A.Sedes on the AlchyMia project. She completed her studies in piano, music didactics and composition at the Conservatorio di Musica L. Cherubini in Florence with masters G. Barsotti, G. Cardini, M. Cardi and L. Morciano. Specialized in piano and composition, she attends seminars and courses with P.N. Masi, G.Cardini, B.Canino, G.Chiari, A. Solbiati, S.Gervasoni, Luis de Pablo, T.Hosokawa, R.Mirigliano, F. Filidei, E. Lopez Lopez, M.Stroppa and the Biennale di Venezia Musica. Selected for residencies and international competitions such as Kate di Tempo Reale, Crespina Art, Festival delle Performance Milano, her works have been performed in Italy and abroad, notably at Paris MSH, Festival Pontino, Freon Ensemble, 2E2M Ensemble, ATM Ensemble, Teatro Studio Sperimentale, Bruno Lisi Gallery, GAMO, New Made Ensemble, "L. Cherubini" Orchestra, Pontino Festival and the 5 Days of Milan Festival. She attended advanced musical training courses in Sermoneta and at the Conservatoire de Tours, under the direction of Maestro A. Solbiati. Solbiati, at the Synapsis International School of Comparative Studies and Literature at the University of Siena. Her artistic activity ranges from compositions to music scenes, sound and video installations, mixed techniques, performances and site-specific sound projects. Since 2020, she has been teaching at the Conservatorio di Musica A. Boito Conservatory of Music in Parma. Her works are published on Babel Score Contemporary Music Library. She lives in Paris.

Hèctor Parra
Composer
Hèctor Parra, a Catalan composer, studied at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Barcelone before going on to perfect his skills at Ircam and the CNSMD in Lyon. He also trained with Brian Ferneyhough, Jonathan Harvey and Michael Jarrell, and obtained a DEA in arts and technologies at Paris-VIII. Very active in the field of contemporary music, he has received numerous commissions from prestigious institutions such as Ircam, the Ensemble Intercontemporain and the Orchestre National d'Île-de-France. His energetic, polymorphous musical language draws on science, painting and Greek tragedy. He has also composed several operas, including Hypermusic Prologue (2009) with a libretto by physicist Lisa Randall, and Das geopferte Leben (2014). In 2018, Inscape is inspired by the cosmological theories of Jean-Pierre Luminet. Winner of numerous international prizes, he is also a teacher at Ircam and a resident of the Villa Médicis in 2021-2022. His work, published by Durand/Universal, is performed by leading contemporary ensembles.

Eva Reiter
Composer
Eva Reiter studied recorder and viola da gamba at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, graduating in 2001. She went on to study recorder with Paul Leenhouts and Walter van Hauwe, and viola da gamba with Mieneke van der Velden, at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, graduating in 2006.
Since then, she has pursued a career as a musician and composer, and is regularly invited to give courses in early music at festivals and schools in Vienna. Since 2008, she has taught viola da gamba at the Linz School of Music.
As a performer, she has taken part in the premieres of numerous works by contemporary composers, including Fausto Romitelli, Paolo Pachini, Bernhard Gander, Burkhard Friedrich, Gerd Kühr, Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, Agostino Di Scipio, Francesco Filidei, Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber, Giorgio Klauer, Raphaël Cendo, Marco Momi and Christian Fennesz. She has been invited to perform as soloist on several occasions by Klangforum Wien and by the ensemble Ictus, of which she has been a permanent member since 2015. She is also a member of the variable-geometry ensemble Elastic Band (with guitarists Tom Pauwels and Yaron Deutsch, among others).
Eva Reiter has premiered several of her pieces at festivals including Leuven's Transit Festival, ISCM World New Music Days Stuttgart, Ars Musica, Jeunesse Wien, Musikprotokoll Graz and MaerzMusik Berlin. In 2009, the Wien Modern festival is presenting a panorama of her work entitled "Fokus Eva Reiter". - Ircam.com

Christian Sebille
Composer
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Iannis Xenakis
Composer
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), a Romanian-born composer and architect of Greek origin, spent his youth in Greece, where he joined the resistance. Forced into exile in 1947, he settled in France and collaborated with Le Corbusier on major architectural projects. At the same time, he trained with Olivier Messiaen and developed a radical musical approach, blending mathematics, physics, computer science and the visual arts. He renews the orchestral language with works such as Metastaseis and Pithoprakta, based on the notions of sound masses, glissandi and probabilities. He also explored musique concrète, spatialization and multimedia arts with his Polytopes. A pioneer of graphic synthesis with UPIC, he composes according to complex scientific structures (set theory, games, sieves). His music combines rigorous abstraction with expressive force. His work, marked by a quest for universality and great sonic inventiveness, had a profound influence on contemporary music. He died in Paris in 2001.