Lieve De Sadeleer

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Lieve De Sadeleer obtained her bachelor’s degree in recorder from LUCA School of Arts Campus Lemmens in Leuven, where she studied with Bart Coen and Bart Spanhove. She then embarked on an exciting journey to Brussels, where she earned her master’s degree in recorder with Bart Coen, a bachelor’s degree in Live Electronics with Benjamin Van Esser, and an Educational Master's degree at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.
As a versatile artist, Lieve has been involved in various interdisciplinary projects and enjoys collaborating with others to create innovative music that transcends traditional genres. She has worked with established and emerging artists in theater and dance productions, including "Somnia" by P.A.R.T.S., Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, and Jolente De Keersmaeker. Between 2021 and 2023 she was an artist in residency at GC De Zeyp as part of the Circuit program of N22 and at GC De Nekkersdal.
As a solo artist, she regularly performs with programs focused on recorder, live electronics, or a combination of both, where she experiments with sound. She co-founded the recorder ensemble Delle Donne Consort, which places early music in a contemporary context. In her new age trio, INNSÆI, she merges live electronics with the recorder, double bass, and jazz vocals to create a unique and captivating sound. In a concert series for young Belgian artists at Amuz, Lieve recorded a program with both early music and her own work for recorder and live electronics together with Giulio Quirici. She collaborates with artists such as Sofie Vanden Eynde, Duo Aznèm, Leonardo Melchionda, Kapellmeister, and others. Lieve has taken various masterclasses in recorder and ensemble with respected musicians such as Tomma Wessel, Fumiharu Yoshimine, Peter Van Heygen, Erik Van Nevel, Marco Magalhães, and Tom Beets. She has also learned from experts in electronic music, including Marko Ciciliani, Benjamin Van Esser, Roel Das, Kasia Glowicka, and Peter Swinnen, among others.

 

Claire Marchal

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Claire Marchal likes to define herself as a “sounder” of flutes, so much her musical research lies primarily in the way of making flutes sound, whether they are baroque or modern instruments.
Distinguished from the conservatories she frequents, she traces her path influenced by encounters with personalities such as flautist and conductor Pierre Roullier, composers Yan Maresz and Philippe Leroux, and also specialist of the audible, Alain Savouret.


A performer in various ensembles (2e2m, Alia Mens, Muzzix), Claire looked elsewhere very early on; preferring to invent, create... Moving from early music played on historical instruments to contemporary music, free improvisation allows her to create music of the moment, solo or shared with other musicians.
Her current projects include “Mademoiselle G.L.C” (an instrumental ensemble / early instruments and contemporary music), “Hiatus” (playing with a virginal whose sounds are triggered by her movements), as well as the duo she forms with dancer Didier Silhol.

5 July 2022, 14h

DesignHands-on session of awareness to the design process, on the themes of conception and composition. How can musical innovation emerge from simple concepts? How can music inspire/be inspired by other sectors?

The Sampo will be considered as a study case of the conception process, with the tangible aspect of the design of an instrument and the untangible aspect of perception of sound.

Workshop organised in the framework of the 2022 Internation Biennale of Design of Saint-Etienne.

Speakers:

Alok Nandi - designer

Stéphane Orlando - composer/improviser

Alexander Mihalic - composer/creator of the Sampo

 

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Jonathan Harvey

Harvey

Harvey was born in Sutton Coldfield, and studied at St John's College, Cambridge, eventually obtaining a PhD.[1] He also took private lessons with Erwin Stein and Hans Keller on the advice of Benjamin Britten.[1] In 1969, he took up a Harkness Fellowship at Princeton University.[1] In the 1980s, Harvey produced music at IRCAM after receiving an invitation from Pierre Boulez to work there.[1]

At IRCAM, Harvey produced works such as Speakings, a composition for large orchestra and electronics, in collaboration with sound artist and composer Gilbert Nouno and researchers Arshia Cont and Grégoire Carpentier. The concept of the piece was to "make an orchestra speak".[3] IRCAM is known for speech analysis and in this piece, special technology was developed to allow the analysis of speech to be realized in an orchestral context, using complex algorithms which can process multiple combinations possible in an orchestra setting. The program Orchidée computed such analyses and provided orchestrations for the composer.[citation needed]

From 2005 to 2008, Harvey held the post of Composer in Association with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.[4]

In 2009, he was Composer in Residence at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.[5] He died, aged 73, in Lewes, from motor neuron disease.[6]

Speakings received six votes in a 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000.[7] In 2019, writers for The Guardian ranked Harvey's String Quartet No. 4 the eighth greatest work of classical music in the same period.


Brina Jež Brezavšček

Brezavscek

Brina Jež's work is characterized by the diversity of her search. However, she remains within the mainstream of contemporary trends in music. Often subtle expressiveness infused by innermost feelings is in the forefront. Some of her works focus on exploring the sound structures. Lately, the domain of her interest has been opening outward, emphasizing the reverence for the integrity of the human being as well as for the material and spiritual environment.

In 1994, she worked independently at the CIRM studio in Nice and at the GRM studio in Paris, in the field of electro acoustic music.

She wrote incidental music for theatre and film. She appeared in public as a pianist, mainly performing her own works and in duo with her husband, violinist Branko Brezavšček. They played in Ljubljana and elsewhere in Slovenia, at the Annual Music Tribunes in Opatija, at the Incontro Musicale in Cremona etc. She recorded for Radio Ljubljana and Radio Trieste. She writes articles both for daily press and professional magazines. From 2004-06 she regularly wrote reviews for the Slovene main daily newspaper Delo. As a pedagogue she is dedicated to introducing and developing musical creativity.

http://www.brina.jez.brezavscek.net/


Fergus Johnston

Johnston

Fergus Johnston was born in 1959 and graduated from TCD with an Honours degree in Music in 1982. He was elected to membership of Áosdana, Ireland's state-supported artistic academy, in 1992, and was a board member of the National Concert Hall from 1996 until 2001.

He has been active as a composer since 1981, and his works have been widely performed both in Ireland and abroad. He has written for a wide variety of genres, including dance, and has collaborated on a number of successful projects involving electronic installations.

In 1999 he completed a Master's Degree in Music and Media Technology at TCD (1999), and in 2011 he received a PhD from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He lives and works in Dublin, Ireland and Rousse, Bulgaria.


Youssra Khechai

Khechai petit

Cellist, composer of electroacoustic music and improviser, I am attending since a few years the course of electroacoustic composition and free improvisation at the Regional Conservatory of Aubervilliers-La Courneuve after obtaining my Bachelor’s degree in Musicology at the University of Lille III.

I have grown for a few years now, a real curiosity towards the world of sound. This sensitive approach is a way for me to reappropriate my instrument which is charged with history, and turn it into something intimate, sensory and personal. By deconstructing this ‘classical instituitional’ link to my instrument, I have developed a thirst for encounter with other artistic forms. Composing is a direct way to connect with other artists. I have had the chance during my studies to write music for a theatre play and even for a dance class.

Transferring knowledge as a teacher has also played a great part in my musical path, and has in some way shaped my apprehension of music. This desire to transfer has led me to found a duo (with Aline Gorisse, also a composer and improviser) called YA and which aims to democratize improvisation and experimental music. We also question ourselves about the transmission of such music through a work on hybrid notation (graphic, textual...)


Alexandros Markeas

Markeas

Alexandros Markeas is a composer and pianist. He studied at the National Conservatory of Greece and at the National Conservatory of Paris (he currently teaches improvisation).

He is interested in the languages ​​of traditional music and favors meetings with improvising musicians from different cultures. He is also inspired by different fields of artistic expression, such as architecture, theater, and visual arts (installations, video), searching alternatives for traditional concert and creating particular situations of musical listening.

His music is marked by a theatrical spirit and the use of multimedia techniques.

https://www.alexandros-markeas.com/



João Pedro Oliveira

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João Pedro Oliveira (born 1959) studied organ, composition and architecture in Lisbon. Ph.D. in music (composition) at the University of New York at Stony Brook. His works include a chamber opera, a Requiem, several orchestral works, three string quartets, chamber music, music for solo instrument, electroacoustic music and experimental video.

A recipient of numerous national and international awards, including three awards at the Electroacoustic Music Competition in Bourges, and the prestigious Magisterium in the same competition, the Giga-Hertz Award, the first prize in Metamorphoses, the 1st Prize in the Musica Nova Competition, etc .. his music is played all over the world, and most of his works were commissioned by prestigious international institutions.

He is a full professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) and professor at the University of Aveiro (Portugal). He has also published several articles in national and international journals, and has written a book on the analytic theory of twentieth century music.

www.jpoliveira.com


Michele Papa

Papa bio

I am an electroacoustic composer, sound designer and musical performer. I was born in Formia, Italy in 1987 and I started approaching music from an early age. In 2014 I graduated at the « Saint-Louis – College of music » in audio techniques and MIDI programming. In the same year I also graduated in Literature and Philosophy at the University of Rome « La Sapienza ».

From 2014 to 2019 I worked with many artists in the role of back-liner, sound engineer, audio director, sound designer and composer. In 2017 I have undertaken the studies of composition at the department of "Electronic music and new technologies" at the conservatory "Santa Cecilia" in Rome. I have completed my studies in 2020 with full marks and honors with the thesis "L'albe nei varchi, come fuggir del susseguir d'incanti".

Since 2017 I have composed music for theater, dance and I collaborated with CRM (Centro di Ricerche Musicali di Roma) as musical assistant and composer. I have been also Technical Director of "Klang" in Rome from 2018 to 2021. From 2015 I have self-produced four musical EPs and I published with "Ensemble" two books of poetry. I composed for many music performers and in 2020 I released, with Danilo Perticaro, the composition "L'albe nei varchi, come fuggir del susseguir d'incanti" for Saxophone and electronics.

Today I continue my research on electroacoustic and acoustic instruments, live electronics, symbology for scores, sounds gestures and performance.

https://www.michelepapa.com/


Jonathan Pontier

Pontier

Jonathan Pontier was born in 1977 in the suburbs of Paris. Self-taught, he navigates between the four-track and the forty-eight staves with equal happiness. Trained on the job by suburban musicians, he discovered contemporary music in high school at the age of 16 and since then has not stopped writing transversal projects, outside of any musical academism.

Composer, pianist, singer, guitarist, bassist, percussionist and computer music specialist, he is as comfortable analyzing a Ligeti quartet and writing elaborate works as he is singing Bob Dylan songs accompanying himself on the guitar.





 Isotta Trastevere

Isotta bioSound artist graduated in electroacoustic composition from the Pierre Barbizet conservatory in Marseille. Currently a doctorate at the PRISM laboratory (Aix-Marseille University) in collaboration with the University of Turin, she is writing a research/creation thesis on temporality in sound arts. In particular, she works on the notion of perceived time in music that doesn’t have a written medium for creation and that is not based on a priori models. She gives conferences and writes articles on these thematics.

Her acousmatic and mixed pieces are played in France (Festival Futura, Gmem in Marseille) and abroad (MusLab). She performs spatialization on acousmonium and modular analogue synthesis.

Invested in divulgation and democratization of sound practice, she founds in 2019 with an artist collective Radio Nunc, an independant web radio for sound creation (www.radionunc.org). She also carries out pedagogical activities as a teacher in audiovisual schools such as AIS Marseille, or as an invited artist such as in École Supérieure de Paysage de Versailles, where she conducts workshops with sound machines.

http://isottatrastevere.com/

Eudes Bernstein (saxophone)

Bernstein bio

Having started his musical studies in the Yvelines department (France), Eudes Bernstein obtains his Master’s degree in Saxophone (Claude Delangle’s class) and is currently pursuing the National Teacher Training Certificate at CNSMD Paris. He takes part in an Erasmus exchange at the Hochschule in Cologne (Daniel Gauthier’s class) and teaches since 2019 at the conservatory of Aulnay Sous Bois. He completes his education with the obtention of a Bachelor’s degree in musicology at the Paris IV Sorbonne University.

Winner of numerous international competitions (Osaka, Dinant, Aeolus, FMAJI, FNAPEC), he performs as a soloist with several international orchestras (Orchestre de Chambre de Belgique, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Sud Westphalen Philharmonie, Orchestre Pasdeloup, Orchestre d’Harmonie de la Garde Républicaine, Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle Europe, Polish Chamber Philharmonie Sopot) in particular under the direction of David Reiland, Benjamin Levy, Nicolas Simon, Julien Leroy, Romain Dumas, Sergio Cardenas or Martin Lebel.

He is also one of the very few saxophonists to enter the prestigeous Fondation Banque Populaire.

He also performs at the prestigeous Venice Biennial in teh world premiere of Habitat, a multimedia work in collaboration with composer Francesco Pellegrino and visual artist Roberto Cassano under the direction of Thierry Coduys and Andrew Quinn.

In 2021, he publishes his first record « Spirales » at the label Paraty and he is preparing for 2022 the premiere of Jonathan Pontier’s Maëstrom Chocolate for saxophone and electronics.

https://eudesbernstein.fr/


Inês Lopes (piano)

Lopes bio

Inês Lopes is a Portuguese pianist currently living in The Netherlands. She is an avid student of contemporary music with particular interest in repertoire for piano and electronics. On this subject she gave a concert / lecture on the 4th International Meeting of Contemporary Piano, a small concert at Tipografia do Porto, made a recording session for CARA – Orquestra de Jazz de Matosinhos and had a recording of a piece for toy piano and electronics streamed at Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2020.

She studied at the Porto Conservatory of Music and the Porto School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE) in the classes of Professors Eduardo Resende and Madalena Soveral, respectively. During her academic studies, she won the Helena Sá e Costa Prize (2016), having played Béla Bártok’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 3 with the ESMAE Symphonic Orchestra. Also noteworthy have been her various collaborations with the ESMAE Symphonic Orchestra and her involvement in the activities of the composition department where she has had the opportunity to premiere several pieces for solo piano, chamber music and contemporary music ensemble groupings. She has also dedicated herself to chamber music with groups such as the Quinteto Lumos and Triarkhía with whom she has played in various concert rooms in Porto, Braga and Viana do Castelo in Portugal.

Inês is currently in the second year of her master’s degree in The Hague at the Koninklijk Conservatorium where she’s specializing in Ensemble Academy and studies with Ellen Corver. She is now interested in exploring the concept of transdisciplinarity in her work while aiming to collaborate with young composers and artists of different fields.

She is the pianist of the Sketch351 ensemble since 2020.


Tina Ostruh (flute)

Ostruh bio

Tina Ostruh was born in Celje, a small bourgeois city in Slovenia. She started learning the flute at the age of 11, and in three years formed a duo Ka-Ti with her sister (with zither). The duo recorded a couple of albums and regularly performed for a dozen years. Her studies resulted in receiving a title of professor of flute and a title of academic flutist at the University of Ljubljana, Academy for music. Part of her study was done at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow (RSC). During her studies, she was a member of hard rock band Aperion, recorded an album entitled Act of Hybris, and performed multiple concerts and festivals with them. She has also obtained a degree in General Linguistics from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts.

Her first encounter with contemporary music was during her studies at the RSC, which was inspired by outstanding educator and flutist Ruth Morley. During her stay in Scotland, Tina played at the modern music festival Plug with Scotland's leading contemporary music ensemble, Red Note. As a student, she also had the opportunity to play music, composed by Adrián Borreda, Eddie McGuire, Mathew Whiteside, Maggie Payne, Ian Clarke, and others.

After finishing her studies, she started a career as a professor at Music School Celje, teaching primary and high school pupils, conducting the music school's junior wind orchestra and the symphony orchestra of a local high school. In recent years, she has taken an interest in the deepened study of contemporary music, which led to the formation of the duet Timber (with zither). This year, she is working on a new contemporary project with a dancer to highlight a connection between sound and dance movement in modern environments.

She believes that learning and gaining new experiences is never a waste of time and that we always need to search for integrity that helps us grow in musical and personal sense.

 

Nicolas Vincent (erhu)

Vincent

Guitarist having followed a jazz training at the National School for Magistrates of  Chambéry and Bourg-en-Bresse, guitar and modern music teacher at the Conservatory of Belley.

Nicolas takes a real interest in Asian music and is passioned about the erhu, the Chinese violin which is little known in the West. Always curious about new timbres, he is teaching himself to play the Duduk, the Morin khuur, the Kamanche, the Mohan veena, and the Xiao flute.

Founding member, composer and arranger of "The cat in the washing machine", a finalist of "Suivez le jazz", he has performed at the Festival jazz au Péristyle, at the St Fons jazz festival, at Jazz à Val d’Isère…

Currently he plays in the jazz-world trio "Road tripes" where he lets the audience discover these unknown instruments. With this recent trio he has performed at the "Batôjazz" jazz festival, at the "Artzébouilles" street art festival and on different stages of the Rhône-Alpes Region.

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Musical Forest

Wednesday 6 July 2022 at 20h, Le Bois d'Avaize park

Nicolas Vincent will improvise with erhu and Sampo in the heart of the Bois d'Avaize forest. Nicolas is interestedin Asian music and has a passion for the erhu, the Chinese violin little known in the West. The sounds of the erhu will be transformed thanks to the Sampo at the occasion of this exceptional concert. It is indeed rare to hear such sonorities in a natural setting...

Bring your picnic to enjoy a moment of relaxation to the sound of erhu and Sampo!

Concert preceded by a nature walk organised by the Bois d'Avaize association.

Nico erhu Carte

 

Restitution of the Academy

Friday 8 July, La Comète

The participants of the Sampo Academy will share their work. Premiere of the works by Przemyslaw Scheller (Poland) and Roxanne Turcotte (Canada). Private event.

 

De Praeteritis...

Thursday 28 July at 21h, online

The first concert of the 2022 Sampo residency. The performers have selected works from the repertoire of mixed music. The concert is recorded at "Le Piano" in Saint-Etienne and streamed on-line.

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Performers:

Eudes Bernstein - Saxophone and Sampo

Tina Ostruh - Flute and Sampo

Inês Lopes - Piano and Sampo

Program:

Brina Jež Brezavšček    Silence or They are All so Nice and Handsome   flute and Sampo
Jonathan Harvey Tombeau de Messiaen piano and Sampo
Fergus Johnston Emma Coulthard's Planxty  flute and Sampo
Alexandros Markeas Trois clins d'œil rythmés saxophone and Sampo
João Pedro Oliveira In Tempore piano and Sampo

 

=> Watch online

 

In collaboration with Le Piano.

Le Piano

 

... Ad Praesens

Thursday 4 August at 20h, on-line

The second concert of the 2022 Sampo residency. Premiere of the works written by winner composers of the 2022 Sampo Contest: Youssra Khechai (France), Michele Papa (Italy) and Isotta Trastevere (France / Italy) and second representation of the work Maelstöm Chocolate by Jonathan Pontier, premiered in June 2022. Concert recorded in a private apartment in Saint-Etienne.

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Performers:

Eudes Bernstein - Saxophone and Sampo

Tina Ostruh - Flute and Sampo

Inês Lopes - Piano and Sampo

 

Program:

Youssra Khechai  Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer    flute and Sampo
Michele Papa Event Horizon saxophone and Sampo
Jonathan Pontier   Maelström Chocolate saxophone and Sampo
Isotta Trastevere Fougère piano and Sampo

 

=> Watch online

 

In collaboration with L'Opéra, pourquoi pas !

Opera pourquoi pas

Wednesday 6 July 2022

Opened to the public in 1996 on a former mining site reclaimed by natural vegetation, the Bois d'Avaize park is classified as "Natura 2000" for the conservation of natural environments for the richness of its flora. The Bois d'Avaize association will guide you through the woods to discover the plants and the soil.

Walk followed by a musical moment. Bring your picnic for a moment of relaxation to the sound of the erhu and the Sampo!

Departure from the Louis Destre bus stop at 18h.

Balade 4 Balade 5

In collaboration withAssociationBoisdAvaize

5 July - 4 August 2022

exchange, education, culture, sciences


   

- 5 July 2022 -

Design  
Workshop

Design & Music

Hands-on session around conception and composition
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Academy

Sampo Academy

International academy of mixed music

     
   

- 6 July 2022 -

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Walk

Walk in the Woods

Discovery of the Bois d'Avaize natural park by the Bois d'Avaize association

 Voyage impro carré  
Concert

Musical Forest

Improvisations by Nicolas Vincent with erhu and Sampo

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Academy

Sampo Academy

International academy of mixed music

     
   

- 7 July 2022 -

 Table ronde  
Round table

Teaching augmented instruments

Debate and feedback return on experience by users of Sampo

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Academy

Sampo Academy

International academy of mixed music

     
   

- 8 July 2022 -

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Concert

Concert de l'Académie

Restitution by the participants of the Sampo Academy
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Academy

Sampo Academy

International academy of mixed music

     
   

- 28 July 2022 -

 Interpretes picto  
Concert

De Praeteritis...

Concert of mixed music by Eudes Bernstein (sax), Inês Lopes (piano) and Tina Ostruh (flute)

     
   

- 4 August 2022 -

Compositeurs picto  
Concert

... Ad praesens

Concert of mixed music by Eudes Bernstein (sax), Inês Lopes (piano) and Tina Ostruh (flute)

5 July - 4 August 2022

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In 2022, the Art & Science Days become Art & Sampo Days!

The Art & Sampo Days propose a musical program around the instrument Sampo, developed and manufactured in Saint-Etienne, France. The program includes concerts of contemporary, world and improvised music, an international academy of mixed music, a composition contest, an artist residency, a musical workshop and master classes.

The festival will be a space for encounters between local and international artists, professionnals and amateurs of all levels.

 

Youssra Khechai

Khechai petit

Cellist, composer of electroacoustic music and improviser, I am attending since a few years the course of electroacoustic composition and free improvisation at the Regional Conservatory of Aubervilliers-La Courneuve after obtaining my Bachelor’s degree in Musicology at the University of Lille III.

I have grown for a few years now, a real curiosity towards the world of sound. This sensitive approach is a way for me to reappropriate my instrument which is charged with history, and turn it into something intimate, sensory and personal. By deconstructing this ‘classical instituitional’ link to my instrument, I have developed a thirst for encounter with other artistic forms. Composing is a direct way to connect with other artists. I have had the chance during my studies to write music for a theatre play and even for a dance class.

Transferring knowledge as a teacher has also played a great part in my musical path, and has in some way shaped my apprehension of music. This desire to transfer has led me to found a duo (with Aline Gorisse, also a composer and improviser) called YA and which aims to democratize improvisation and experimental music. We also question ourselves about the transmission of such music through a work on hybrid notation (graphic, textual...)


Michele Papa

Papa bio

I am an electroacoustic composer, sound designer and musical performer. I was born in Formia, Italy in 1987 and I started approaching music from an early age. In 2014 I graduated at the « Saint-Louis – College of music » in audio techniques and MIDI programming. In the same year I also graduated in Literature and Philosophy at the University of Rome « La Sapienza ».

From 2014 to 2019 I worked with many artists in the role of back-liner, sound engineer, audio director, sound designer and composer. In 2017 I have undertaken the studies of composition at the department of "Electronic music and new technologies" at the conservatory "Santa Cecilia" in Rome. I have completed my studies in 2020 with full marks and honors with the thesis "L'albe nei varchi, come fuggir del susseguir d'incanti".

Since 2017 I have composed music for theater, dance and I collaborated with CRM (Centro di Ricerche Musicali di Roma) as musical assistant and composer. I have been also Technical Director of "Klang" in Rome from 2018 to 2021. From 2015 I have self-produced four musical EPs and I published with "Ensemble" two books of poetry. I composed for many music performers and in 2020 I released, with Danilo Perticaro, the composition "L'albe nei varchi, come fuggir del susseguir d'incanti" for Saxophone and electronics.

Today I continue my research on electroacoustic and acoustic instruments, live electronics, symbology for scores, sounds gestures and performance.

https://www.michelepapa.com/


 Isotta Trastevere

Isotta bioSound artist graduated in electroacoustic composition from the Pierre Barbizet conservatory in Marseille. Currently a doctorate at the PRISM laboratory (Aix-Marseille University) in collaboration with the University of Turin, she is writing a research/creation thesis on temporality in sound arts. In particular, she works on the notion of perceived time in music that doesn’t have a written medium for creation and that is not based on a priori models. She gives conferences and writes articles on these thematics.

Her acousmatic and mixed pieces are played in France (Festival Futura, Gmem in Marseille) and abroad (MusLab). She performs spatialization on acousmonium and modular analogue synthesis.

Invested in divulgation and democratization of sound practice, she founds in 2019 with an artist collective Radio Nunc, an independant web radio for sound creation (www.radionunc.org). She also carries out pedagogical activities as a teacher in audiovisual schools such as AIS Marseille, or as an invited artist such as in École Supérieure de Paysage de Versailles, where she conducts workshops with sound machines.

http://isottatrastevere.com/

Eudes Bernstein (saxophone)

Bernstein bio

Having started his musical studies in the Yvelines department (France), Eudes Bernstein obtains his Master’s degree in Saxophone (Claude Delangle’s class) and is currently pursuing the National Teacher Training Certificate at CNSMD Paris. He takes part in an Erasmus exchange at the Hochschule in Cologne (Daniel Gauthier’s class) and teaches since 2019 at the conservatory of Aulnay Sous Bois. He completes his education with the obtention of a Bachelor’s degree in musicology at the Paris IV Sorbonne University.

Winner of numerous international competitions (Osaka, Dinant, Aeolus, FMAJI, FNAPEC), he performs as a soloist with several international orchestras (Orchestre de Chambre de Belgique, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Sud Westphalen Philharmonie, Orchestre Pasdeloup, Orchestre d’Harmonie de la Garde Républicaine, Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle Europe, Polish Chamber Philharmonie Sopot) in particular under the direction of David Reiland, Benjamin Levy, Nicolas Simon, Julien Leroy, Romain Dumas, Sergio Cardenas or Martin Lebel.

He is also one of the very few saxophonists to enter the prestigeous Fondation Banque Populaire.

He also performs at the prestigeous Venice Biennial in teh world premiere of Habitat, a multimedia work in collaboration with composer Francesco Pellegrino and visual artist Roberto Cassano under the direction of Thierry Coduys and Andrew Quinn.

In 2021, he publishes his first record « Spirales » at the label Paraty and he is preparing for 2022 the premiere of Jonathan Pontier’s Maëstrom Chocolate for saxophone and electronics.

https://eudesbernstein.fr/


Inês Lopes (piano)

Lopes bio

Inês Lopes is a Portuguese pianist currently living in The Netherlands. She is an avid student of contemporary music with particular interest in repertoire for piano and electronics. On this subject she gave a concert / lecture on the 4th International Meeting of Contemporary Piano, a small concert at Tipografia do Porto, made a recording session for CARA – Orquestra de Jazz de Matosinhos and had a recording of a piece for toy piano and electronics streamed at Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2020.

She studied at the Porto Conservatory of Music and the Porto School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE) in the classes of Professors Eduardo Resende and Madalena Soveral, respectively. During her academic studies, she won the Helena Sá e Costa Prize (2016), having played Béla Bártok’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 3 with the ESMAE Symphonic Orchestra. Also noteworthy have been her various collaborations with the ESMAE Symphonic Orchestra and her involvement in the activities of the composition department where she has had the opportunity to premiere several pieces for solo piano, chamber music and contemporary music ensemble groupings. She has also dedicated herself to chamber music with groups such as the Quinteto Lumos and Triarkhía with whom she has played in various concert rooms in Porto, Braga and Viana do Castelo in Portugal.

Inês is currently in the second year of her master’s degree in The Hague at the Koninklijk Conservatorium where she’s specializing in Ensemble Academy and studies with Ellen Corver. She is now interested in exploring the concept of transdisciplinarity in her work while aiming to collaborate with young composers and artists of different fields.

She is the pianist of the Sketch351 ensemble since 2020.


Tina Ostruh (flute)

Ostruh bio

Tina Ostruh was born in Celje, a small bourgeois city in Slovenia. She started learning the flute at the age of 11, and in three years formed a duo Ka-Ti with her sister (with zither). The duo recorded a couple of albums and regularly performed for a dozen years. Her studies resulted in receiving a title of professor of flute and a title of academic flutist at the University of Ljubljana, Academy for music. Part of her study was done at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow (RSC). During her studies, she was a member of hard rock band Aperion, recorded an album entitled Act of Hybris, and performed multiple concerts and festivals with them. She has also obtained a degree in General Linguistics from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts.

Her first encounter with contemporary music was during her studies at the RSC, which was inspired by outstanding educator and flutist Ruth Morley. During her stay in Scotland, Tina played at the modern music festival Plug with Scotland's leading contemporary music ensemble, Red Note. As a student, she also had the opportunity to play music, composed by Adrián Borreda, Eddie McGuire, Mathew Whiteside, Maggie Payne, Ian Clarke, and others.

After finishing her studies, she started a career as a professor at Music School Celje, teaching primary and high school pupils, conducting the music school's junior wind orchestra and the symphony orchestra of a local high school. In recent years, she has taken an interest in the deepened study of contemporary music, which led to the formation of the duet Timber (with zither). This year, she is working on a new contemporary project with a dancer to highlight a connection between sound and dance movement in modern environments.

She believes that learning and gaining new experiences is never a waste of time and that we always need to search for integrity that helps us grow in musical and personal sense.

Contest / Residency Results

The international jury selected three winners of the Sampo Contest / Residency:

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Michele Papa
(Italy)
Youssra Khechai
(France)
Isotta Trastevere
(Italy / France)

2022 Residents

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Eudes Bernstein Tina Ostruh Inês Lopes
saxophone flute piano
France Slovenia Portugal / The Netherlands

4 May - 30 June 2021

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Can we trust our perception?

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen - Anaxagoras

Fascinating optical phenomena, mirages have inspired various legends and are sometimes assimilated to hallucinations. Indeed, in a figurative sense, the word mirage also refers to illusions and deceptive appearances. And yet, what we see in a mirage actually exists...

 

The 7th edition of the Art & Science Days will take place online from 4 May to 30 June 2021.

Contest / Residency Results

The international jury selected two winners of Sampo Contest / Residency:

Vitucci Gerenabarrena
Francesco Vitucci
(Italy)
Zuriñe F. Gerenabarrena
(Spain)