Zad Moultaka
composer and visual artist
Born in Lebanon in 1967 into a contemporary theater background, Zad Moultaka began playing the piano at the age of five, then moved to Paris in 1984. In 1989, he was awarded the Premier Prix by the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris. In 1993, he abandoned his international career as a performer to devote himself to composition and visual art. Trained in the rigors of Western musical writing but intrinsically linked to his Mediterranean roots, Zad Moultaka creates his own distinctive language. Noticed by György Kurtág, his encounter with the composer was decisive in the affirmation of an increasingly original and atypical style. His works are performed and appreciated around the world, and he received the SACEM Claude Arrieu Prize in 2007 and the Prix de la critique, best musical creation 2017, for his work UM souverain moteur de toute chose. Among his many musical collaborations: ^58th Venice Art Biennale, Van Harentz Foundation; Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Stockholm; Deutsche Oper Berlin; Muziktheater Im Revier, Gelsenkirchen; Neue Vocal Solisten, Stuttgart; Les elements choir; ArsNova ensemble; Musicatreize ensemble, 2e2m... and more recently, Hémon, Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg; Der letzte Klang ist der erste Blick, Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt; Requiem for a New World, Basilica S.S. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice; L'Orangeraie, Compagnie Lyrique de Création Chants Libres, Montreal... At the same time, he is developing an important body of visual work: installation, painting, photography and video. Recent exhibitions and installations include: Totah Gallery New York; Dôme Oscar Niemeyer Tripoli-Lebanon; Centre Pompidou Metz; ^57th Venice Art Biennale; Sursock Museum, Beirut 2018; Suomennlina, Finland; Nuit Blanche, Paris; Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnins, Arsenal de Metz and Art Dubai; Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice... More recently, Zad Moultaka was selected from among 200 Visionaries by the Maison Louis Vuitton, to create a trunk for the 200th anniversary of its founder. 

Bruno Messina
musician and writer
After initial training as a trumpet player at the conservatory in his native Nice, then at the CNSMDP, Bruno Messina continued his training in jazz at the same institution, in Javanese gamelan in Yogyakarta, and pursued doctoral research in ethnomusicology at Paris-IV / Sorbonne, EPHE and EHESS. Winner of the Villa Médicis "hors les murs" for his work on Indonesian music, he began his career as a project manager for traditional music with the Alpes Maritimes departmental council. In 2004, he was appointed director of the Maison de la Musique de Nanterre, a center for musical creation in all its forms. At the same time, he teaches ethnomusicology at the CNSMDP. In 2008, he was entrusted with the Agence iséroise de diffusion artistique (AIDA-38), with which he developed the Festival Berlioz de la Côte Saint-André, the Jeune Orchestre Européen Hector Berlioz with conductor François-Xavier Roth, the Musée Hector Berlioz, the Festival Messiaen au pays de La Meije, the Maison Messiaen résidence d'artistes, as well as a number of public outreach and educational projects in the Isère region. At the same time, he is a guest teacher and lecturer throughout the world, on subjects ranging from cultural administration to ethnomusicology and Hector Berlioz. Bruno Messina is also in demand as artistic and musical director of publishing collections and temporary exhibitions. Bruno Messina is the author of a documented and critical biography of Hector Berlioz(Berlioz, Actes sud, 2018) and the co-author and contributor to numerous books. 

Musicatreize, Centre national d'art vocal de la Région Sud
National center for vocal art (CNAV) for the southern region since 2020, the Musicatreize ensemble promotes the practice and coaching of choral singing through artistic and cultural education projects such as "Chanter au quotidien", which has students singing every day throughout the year. The CNAV also enables amateur choirs to reach out to the general public at a number of events: Rentrée des chœurs (September), Week-end des chœurs (May) and Chants libres (June).
For over 35 years, Musicatreize has been promoting the repertoire of the ^20th and ^21st centuries, building up a corpus of over 300 creations by major artists such as Alberto Posadas, François-Bernard Mâche, Edith Canat de Chizy, Oscar Strasnoy, Lucien Guérinel, Zad Moultaka, Gérard Grisey, António Chagas Rosa...
Founded by Roland Hayrabedian in 1987 and originally conceived as a choir with 12 acappella voices (3 per tessitura: soprano, alto, tenor, bass) and a conductor, Musicatreize is now a variable-geometry ensemble, performing works for solo choir, choir and orchestra or musical theater. As a key instrument for composers, Musicatreize is closely involved in the creation of their works. In recent years, numerous cycles have been created, bringing together composers from different horizons around a single theme: Les Berceuses, Les Sept contes, Odyssées dans l'espace, Trois Cantates policières, Les Douze lettres à Elise and, since 2023, Les Douze travaux d'Hercule. Thanks to the CNAV's missions, some of Musicatreize's commissions are now conceived as "gigogne" works, with an insert for an amateur choir. The latter can take part in the performance alongside the Ensemble and/or use it for their own concerts, thus contributing to the dissemination of today's music. Awarded a Victoire de la Musique Classique in 2007 in the Ensemble of the Year category, Musicatreize regularly tours internationally. The ensemble has made numerous recordings, including the complete works of Maurice Ohana, musical tales and, most recently, Michel Petrossian's Trois amours. In 2024, Musicatreize will record choral works by Steven Gerber. Since 2012, to coincide with Marseille's status as European Capital of Culture, Musicatreize has had its own concert hall, where it performs and welcomes numerous ensembles and artists in residence.

Roland Hayrabedian
chef
An indefatigable traveler and talent scout, conductor Roland Hayrabedian pursues a career that, among other things, outlines the contours of a modern Mediterranean. A loyal companion to composers such as Maurice Ohana in the past and Zad Moultaka since 2007, Roland Hayrabedian commissions and premieres works by artists from all over the world every year. With his ensemble Musicatreize, he works in close collaboration with today's composers: Edith Canat de Chizy, Oscar Strasnoy, Michel Petrossian, Philippe Schoeller, Alexandros Markeas...
Sensitive to the transmission of a repertoire as much as of knowledge, Roland Hayrabedian teaches the direction of vocal and instrumental ensembles, whether within institutions (CRR de Marseille, Institut d'enseignement supérieur de la musique (IESM) d'Aix-en-Provence) or through masterclasses. He has conducted numerous ensembles, including the Chœur et la Maîtrise de Radio France, the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre national de Lorraine, the Orchestre philharmonique de Marseille, the Orchestre régional d'Avignon, the Orchestre régional de Cannes, the National Choir of Ireland, the Nederlands Kamerkoor... His passion for musical creation, in what it says about today's world, has also led him to collaborate with ensembles such as Percussions de Strasbourg, Musique Vivante, Musique Oblique, 2e2m, TM+ and the Itinéraire ensemble, and to perform all over the world. In 1987, he founded his own ensemble, Musicatreize, of which he is artistic director and which he continues to direct, for which he sets up major creation cycles(Les Berceuses, Les Sept contes, Odyssées dans l'espace, Trois Cantates policières, Les Douze lettres à Elise and, since 2023, Les Douze travaux d'Hercule). As an advocate of amateur practice, he opens the doors of the hall and his ensemble to promote the practice of choral singing.