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
Chinese composer and music theory researcher
She began learning music at the age of 4 with her father, a composer and composition teacher. Since 2008, she has worked at the College of Music, Nanjing University of the Arts, where she teaches composition and orchestration. She received her doctorate in composition in 2019 from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She is currently an acceuil researcher at the CNSMDP, under the direction of Professor Frédéric Durieux, and also a private student of Tristan Murail.
During her master's studies at the Shanghai Conservatory, she became interested in spectral music and began to study it systematically. Her master's thesis is entitled Research on spectral composition based on OpenMusic. In 2015, Tristan Murail began regularly giving composition masterclasses to students at the Shanghai Conservatory, and so she attended his composition classes every year thereafter, deeply influenced by him. Today, she remains a student of Professor Murail, with whom she regularly takes private lessons at his home in Provence. During her doctoral studies, she focused on timbre- and sound-centered music, with her doctoral thesis entitled Morphologie des gestes et des textures dans la musique contemporaine centrée sur le timbre et le son et leurs fonctions structurelles (Morphology of gestures and textures in timbre- and sound-centered contemporary music and their structural functions). She has also published two articles on spectral music in the journal of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Art of Music, a highly prestigious academic journal in China: Deciphering the Code of Spectral Music: 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).
Recently, she has also taken part in masterclasses with Liza Lim, Yann Robin, Francesco Filidei, Mauro Lanza, Johannes Schöllhorn and many other renowned composers, and received their recognition.
His major works include Xiao, for alto flute (which won the Ex aeqvo prize in category A at the 2008 International Youth Music Competition); Streaming, for three Chinese plucked string instruments (which won third prize at the 2008 "Music of China" International Composition Competition); Le Trou de neige, for ensemble (premiered by the Israel Contemporary Players, conducted by Zsolt Nagy in 2016); The Sea as My Blood, for trumpet, double-horn trombone and percussion (to be premiered by the Elision Ensemble in late 2024); Lamps, and Slices of the Night, for large orchestra (premiered by the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zhang Liang in 2016); Portrait: Flowing Water, for large orchestra (premiered by the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zhang Liang in 2018); Happy, Lively, Vengeful Teeth, for piano trio (premiered by Ensemble Fractales, conducted by Jean-Bernard Matter, at Schloss Reichenau, Austria, in 2019) ; While the Fishes Playing the Sonata, the Deeper the Water Is, the Longer the Song Is, for double-bell brass quartet (premiered by Ensemble Musikfabrik in December 2020); Les Fleurs de pêches, for orchestra (premiered by Zhang Liang in 2016); The Lamps, and Slices of the Night, for large orchestra (premiered by the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zhang Liang in 2016) 2020); Les Fleurs de pêcher s'épanouissent à travers les fissures des os, for solo cello (commissioned by Radio France, premiered by Marie Ythier at 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.