Francesca Verunelli
Composer

Francesca Verunelli studied composition with Rosario Mirigliano and piano with Stefano Fiuzzi at the Conservatorio Nazionale Luigi Cherubini in Florence, where she graduated summa cum laude. She also graduated from the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Azio Corghi. She then followed courses 1 and 2 in electronic music at Ircam. She holds a PhD from the Université PSL (Paris Sciences & Lettres).
In 2010, she was awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale. She has received commissions from major music institutions and festivals, including Ircam, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, La Biennale di Venezia, Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio France, Milano Musica, Accentus Chamber Choir, Lucerne Symphonic Orchestra, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, GMEM Marseille, CIRM Nice, French State, FACE Foundation, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, International Contemporary Ensemble, Donaueschinger MusikTage, ECLAT, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Rainy Days, Klangforum Wien, Musica Viva - Munich, Acht Brücken Köln. She has been a research composer at Ircam and GMEM Marseille; and resident artist at Casa de Velasquez (Madrid - 2015/2016) and Villa Médicis (French Academy in Rome - 2016/17). She won the prestigious Siemens Composer's prize in 2020. She received the 41st "Premio Abbiati della critica" in May 2022.
Her premieres in 2023 are "Tune and retune II" for the SWR orchestra (@Donaueschinger Musiktage 2023) and "Songs and Voices" in October 2023.

Neue Vocalsolisten
Vocal ensemble

Researchers, inventors, idealists. They work with specialist ensembles and radio orchestras, opera houses, independent theaters, electronic studios, festival organizers and concert promoters of modern music in Europe. The Neue Vocalsolisten - a contemporary vocal music ensemble founded in 1984 as part of Musik der Jahrhunderte - has been an artistically independent vocal chamber ensemble since 2000. The seven soloists, ranging from coloratura soprano to countertenor and deep bass, devote all their creative energy to their chamber music work, in collaboration with composers and other performers.
A group of specialist singers completes the core team, depending on the cast. Their main interests are research into new tonalities, vocal techniques and forms of articulation, and dialogue with composers. Each year, they create some twenty new works. Opera and interdisciplinary work encompassing electronics, videophony, the visual arts and literature are just as much a part of the group's artistic project as collages that take advantage of the contrast between elements of early and modern music.

SébastienBoin
Musical Director

Sébastien Boin is one of a new generation of conductors with a passion for musical creation, who have vigorously forged their own ensemble in their own image. Thus was born the instrumental ensemble C Barré, dedicated to musical creation, with which he experiments with the dual responsibilities of artistic and musical direction. An enthusiast of both instrumental and vocal music, which he believes naturally complement each other, he has a dual career as orchestra and choir conductor. He has collaborated with the Neue Vocalsolisten of Stuttgart, the International Contemporary Ensemble of New York, the Choeur de Radio France, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, the Orchestre Régional d'Avignon-Provence, the Orchestre Régional de Basse Normandie and the Orchestre de Cannes. In 2015, at the request of the University of Aix-Marseille, he created OSAMU & Co, the symphony orchestra of Aix-Marseille University and the Pierre Barbizet Conservatory of Marseille, of which he is artistic and musical director.
In 2016, he was invited by the Festival d'Aix to conduct Ana Sokolovic's opera "Svadba" during a three-year international tour.
He currently teaches choral conducting at the CFMI in Aix-en-Provence and orchestral conducting at the Conservatoire de Marseille.