Marie Ythier
Cellist
Marie Ythier is a classical musician who is also committed to working with the composers of her generation. She has already made five recordings, including Une Rencontre, based on works by R. Schumann and T. Murail (Divine Art Recordings, Naxos 2019), which has been acclaimed by the international press.
Trained by Anne Gastinel, Miklos Perenyi, Philippe Muller, Gary Hoffmann and Heinrich Schiff, she is a regular guest in prestigious concert halls (Philharmonie de Paris, Auditorium de Dijon...) and appears as soloist worldwide (Kuhmo Festival, FIMC Lima, Suona Francese Italia, Festival Messiaen au Pays de la Meije, CMMAS de Morelia, CENART de Mexico, Luzern KKL...).
Marie Ythier works regularly with composers such as Ivo Malec, Gilbert Amy, Tristan Murail, Pierre Boulez...and is already the dedicatee of some twenty pieces written for her. She often joins English, Italian and German ensembles, and performs as soloist under the direction of renowned conductors (P. Boulez, P. Csaba, C. Power...).
Passionate about transmission, she has just been appointed cello professor at the CRR in Lyon, is guest professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Lima, and gives masterclasses in France, Asia and Latin America.
Marie Ythier's varied musical experience makes her an artist whose eclecticism and open-mindedness are revealed in her particular interest in new music. She is equally at home with the repertoire of all periods, both in chamber music and as a soloist.
Winner of numerous national and international prizes (1st prize at the Zonta Clubs cello competition, Mécénat Société Générale prizewinner, Fondation Meyer, Adami, etc.), Marie Ythier is a graduate of the CNSM in Lyon and the CNSM in Paris, where she completed her 3rd cycle. Marie Ythier is a laureate of the Fondation Salabert and the Fondation de France for 2015. Artist in residence at Monceau Assurances in 2017, laureate of the Cordes Sensibles foundation, and finally associate artist of Adami since 2018, Marie Ythier is now associate artist of the Fondation Singer-Polignac since June 2018 and active member of the Collège Contemporain since 2019. She has been named artist-in-residence at the Fondation Royaumont and "Génération Spedidam" artist until 2024.

Núria Giménez Comas
Composer
Núria Giménez Comas studied piano and then mathematics, before turning to composition at the Escuela Superior de Música de Catalunya (Barcelona) in 2006. She trained with Christophe Havel, who immediately introduced her to electroacoustics, the importance of timbre work and the interaction between computer technology and the instrumentalist.
She has developed a body of work stretching between two axes: timbral transformation (through the expansion and cohesion of timbres and harmony) and the articulation between music and image or music and the poetic voice. She has worked on several projects involving spatialization, notably with the Quatuor Diotima, a Cursus 2 piece and a research residency on 3D synthesis at Ircam and the ZKM with Marlon Schumacher.

Georges Aperghis
Composer
Georges Aperghis was born in Athens in 1945. He has lived and written in Paris since 1963. His work is distinguished by its questioning of language and meaning. His compositions, whether instrumental, vocal or theatrical, explore the boundaries of the intelligible, and he likes to create "false trails" that enable him to captivate the listener (stories are born but are contradicted or stopped dead in their tracks).
Aperghis's work cannot be formally linked to any of the dominant musical aesthetics of contemporary musical creation. It is part of its century through dialogue with other art forms and a radical openness to the other. This otherness is combined with innovation when he integrates machines, automata or robots into his performances. Aperghis works closely with a group of performers who participate fully in the creative process of his shows. These include actors (such as Edith Scob, Michael Lonsdale, Valérie Dréville, Jos Houben), instrumentalists (such as Jean- Pierre Drouet, Richard Dubelski, Geneviève Strosser, Nicolas Hodges, Uli Fussenegger) and vocalists (Martine Viard, Donatienne Michel-Dansac and Lionel Peintre). From the 1990s onwards, new forms of collaboration with dance (Johanne Saunier, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker) and the visual arts (Daniel LÉvy, Kurt D'Haeseleer, Hans Op de Beeck) were added. Europe's leading contemporary music ensembles have developed a working relationship with Aperghis through regular commissions, all integrated into their repertoire (e.g. ensembles Ictus, Klangforum Wien, Remix, Musikfabrik, Ensemble Modern, Intercontemporain, or the Vocalsolisten and SWR Choir).

Shuhan Hu
Compositrice chinoise et chercheuse en théorie musicale
Elle a commencé à apprendre la musique à l'âge de 4 ans avec son père, compositeur et professeur de composition. Depuis 2008, elle travaille au Collège de musique de l'Université des arts de Nanjing, où elle enseigne la composition et l'orchestration. Elle a obtenu son doctorat en composition en 2019 au Conservatoire de musique de Shanghai. Elle est actuellement chercheuse en acceuil au CNSMDP, sous la direction du professeur Frédéric Durieux, et également élève privée de Tristan Murail.
Pendant ses études de maîtrise au Conservatoire de Shanghai, elle s'est intéressée à la musique spectrale et a commencé à l'étudier de manière systématique. Son mémoire de maîtrise s'intitule Research on spectral composition based on OpenMusic (Recherche sur la composition spectrale basée sur OpenMusic). En 2015, Tristan Murail a commencé à donner régulièrement des masterclasses de composition aux étudiant·e·s du Conservatoire de Shanghai, et elle a donc assisté à ses cours de composition chaque année par la suite, profondément influencée par lui. Aujourd'hui, elle reste une élève du professeur Murail, avec qui elle prend régulièrement des cours privés à son domicile en Provence. Pendant ses études doctorales, elle s'est concentrée sur la musique centrée sur le timbre et le son, avec sa thèse de doctorat intitulée Morphologie des gestes et des textures dans la musique contemporaine centrée sur le timbre et le son et leurs fonctions structurelles. Elle a également publié deux articles sur la musique spectrale dans le journal du Conservatoire de musique de Shanghai, Art of Music, une revue universitaire très prestigieuse en Chine : Déchiffrer le code de la musique spectrale : The Concept of Sound in Spectral Composition (Art of Music, Sept. 2010, pp.125-130 ; On Techniques and Means of Orchestration in Spectral Composition (Art of Music, Sept. 2015, pp.123-131).
Récemment, elle a également participé à des masterclasses avec Liza Lim, Yann Robin, Francesco Filidei, Mauro Lanza, Johannes Schöllhorn et de nombreux·euses autres compositeur·rice·s de renom, et a reçu leur reconnaissance.
Parmi ses œuvres majeures, citons Xiao, pour flûte alto (qui a remporté le prix Ex aeqvo dans la catégorie A du Concours international de musique pour la jeunesse 2008) ; Streaming, pour trois instruments à cordes pincées chinois (qui a remporté le troisième prix du Concours international de composition "Musique de Chine" 2008) ; Le Trou de neige, pour ensemble (créé par les Israel Contemporary Players, sous la direction de Zsolt Nagy en 2016) ; The Sea as My Blood, pour trompette, trombone à double pavillon et percussion (sera créé par l'Elision Ensemble fin 2024) ; Lamps, and Slices of the Night, pour grand orchestre (créé par l'Orchestre philharmonique de Shanghai, sous la direction de Zhang Liang en 2016) ; Portrait : Flowing Water, pour grand orchestre (créé par l'Orchestre philharmonique de Shanghai, sous la direction de Zhang Liang en 2018) ; Happy, Lively, Vengeful Teeth, pour trio avec piano (créé par l'Ensemble Fractales, sous la direction de Jean-Bernard Matter, au Schloss Reichenau, Autriche, en 2019) ; While the Fishes Playing the Sonata, the Deeper the Water Is, the Longer the Song Is, pour quatuor de cuivres à double cloche (créé par l'Ensemble Musikfabrik en décembre 2020) ; Les Fleurs de pêches, pour orchestre (créé par Zhang Liang en 2016) ; The Lamps, and Slices of the Night, pour grand orchestre (créé par l'Orchestre philharmonique de Shanghai, sous la direction de Zhang Liang en 2016) 2020) ; Les Fleurs de pêcher s'épanouissent à travers les fissures des os, pour violoncelle solo (commande de Radio France, création par Marie Ythier au Festival Présences 2022), etc.

Myrto Nizami
Composer
Myrto Nizami (1994, Greece) is a Greek composer and pianist. She draws her inspiration from poetry, the fine arts, philosophy and politics. Her music explores the fluid, ethereal plasticity of sound. Her music has been presented at the "Lichtbogen Neue Musik" Festival, the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, the Teheran International Festival of Electronic Music, the Ref-Resilience 2021 Festival, and the Belgian festival Kruis + Bestuiving - ANNA3 2020. She has received commissions from the Onassis Foundation, the Muzika Bulegoa Suona Irratzari Foundation and In Bloom. She currently lives and works in The Hague, Netherlands.

Matteo Gualandi
Composer
Matteo Gualandi (Italy, b. 1995) began studying composition with Daniele Bravi in his native Rome.
In 2015, he entered the Haute École de Musique de Genève, where he studied with Pascal Dusapin, Michael Jarrell and Luis Naón. He obtained his Master's degree in 2020. In 2019, he will train with Isabel Mundry at the Munich University of Music.
He is currently based in Paris, where he graduated from the Ircam composers' course (2021) and the CNSMDP (2022) in Frédéric Durieux's class. His music has been performed at festivals such as the Venice Biennale, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, the ManiFeste festival and the Archipel festival. He has worked with musicians such as Ensemble Contrechamps, Ensemble Intercontemporain and Klangforum Wien.
His compositions are born of a reflection on instruments and their techniques, the making of sounds and their relationships and poetic implications. He also studied design at Rome's La Sapienza University. He plays the trumpet.