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.

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.

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.

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.

Anne Castex
Composer
Anne Castex, born in 1993, is a composer of instrumental, electroacoustic and mixed music. She studied piano and obtained 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 studying instrumental composition with Guy Ferla and electroacoustic composition with Bertrand Dubedout at the Toulouse Conservatoire, graduating with honors in 2019, with prizes in piano, musical training, analysis and writing. 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. Winner of the Luxembourg Composition Academy with the United Instruments of Lucilin ensemble and composers Philippe Leroux and Elena Mendoza, she has received commissions from the Multilaterale ensemble and Ina-GRM. Her works have been performed at the MANCA Festival (Nice), the ByPass Forum, Philharmonie de Paris and Maison de Radio-France. - Grame.fr

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