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.

5 July - 4 August 2022

exchange, education, culture, sciences

		- 5 July 2022 -
		Workshop Design & Music Hands-on session around conception and composition
		Academy Sampo Academy International academy of mixed music
		- 6 July 2022 -
		Walk Walk in the Woods Discovery of the Bois d'Avaize natural park by the Bois d'Avaize association
		Concert Musical Forest Improvisations by Nicolas Vincent with erhu and Sampo
		Academy Sampo Academy International academy of mixed music
		- 7 July 2022 -
		Round table Teaching augmented instruments Debate and feedback return on experience by users of Sampo
		Academy Sampo Academy International academy of mixed music
		- 8 July 2022 -
		Concert Concert de l'Académie Restitution by the participants of the Sampo Academy
		Academy Sampo Academy International academy of mixed music
		- 28 July 2022 -
		Concert De Praeteritis... Concert of mixed music by Eudes Bernstein (sax), Inês Lopes (piano) and Tina Ostruh (flute)
		- 4 August 2022 -
		Concert ... Ad praesens Concert of mixed music by Eudes Bernstein (sax), Inês Lopes (piano) and Tina Ostruh (flute)

5 July - 4 August 2022

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.

Read more: Art & Sampo Days 2022

Youssra Khechai

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

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

Sound 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)

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)

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)

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:

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

Read more: The 9th Sampo Composition Contest / Residency

2022 Residents

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

Read more: Sampo Artist Residency

4 May - 30 June 2021

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.

Read more: Art & Science Days 2021

Contest / Residency Results

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

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

Read more: The 8th Sampo Composition Contest / Residency

Zuriñe F. Gerenabarrena

Zuriñe F. Gerenabarrena studied composition with C. Bernaola and Franco Donatoni. Gerenabarrena has written pieces for orchestra, chamber ensembles, theatre, dance, acousmatic and sound installations and multidisciplinary shows.

International forum and sonorous diffusion, selection:
Auditorio Nacional, Guggenheim Museum Inauguration, Sinkro, Bernaola Festival, Cycle of Concerts of contemporary Music FBBVA, Quincena Musical, Festival Synthèse, Kleiner Konzertsaal (Munich), Sibelius Academy, Elektrophonie/Nuit Bleue, Festival Sonoimágenes, Visiones Sonoras, Electrovisiones, Fonoteca Nacional, México D.F, Milan Universitá, EMU Festival, Festival, Musica Viva, “E`Werk”, Annual New Music.WEALR09” Fullerton, Festival Borealis, Musiques & Recherches, Exhibition “Down the Dori” (Tokyo), BKA Theather, Pyramidale Festival, EAM Festen Frost, EviMus, ICMC 2015, 7º Musica Electric Nova, Plage Sonore, MUSLAB, BIFEM 2017, TONBAND, DME55, Noh X Contemporary Music, SICMF 2018 (Seoul), Matera/Intermedia 2018 (Prize Acousmatic), Musica Nova 2018 (Honoray Mention), San Francisco Tape Music Festival, Mise-En Music, ICMC/NYCEM (NY), Atemporánea Festival, Helicotrema, Ecos Urbanos, UACH (Chile), arteScienza (Rome), MUSICA (Strasbourg)…

Artist in residence:
NOTAM (Oslo), EMS (Stockholm), ZHdk, ICST (Zurich), Shiro-Oni (Japan), Tokyo Wonder Site (Tokyo), Studio Alpha, VICC (Visby), USF/Verfet (Bergen), Studio LEC(Lisbon).

Professor of Counterpoint, Harmony at MUSIKENE (Basque Country).

www.zfgerenabarrena.com

Francesco Vitucci

Francesco Vitucci, born in 1991, is a composer from Grumo Appula (Bari - Italy). In 2016, he obtained the bachelor’s in composition, under the direction of Biagio Putignano, at the "Niccolò Piccinni" Conservatory in Bari. With the same professor and in the same institution, he finished his studies, following the Master in "Musical disciplines with technological address - Composition", and obtaining the diploma in 2018 with all the marks and mention of the jury. In May 2020, he obtained the Master of Advanced Studies in Music Composition, at the Conservatory of Italian-speaking Switzerland, in Lugano, under the supervision of Nadir Vassena.

He is currently enrolled in the Advanced Specialization Course of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, under the supervision of Ivan Fedele. Among the composers with whom he specialized in masterclass courses, in Italy and abroad, stand out the names of Ivan Fedele, Reinhard Febel, Daniela Terranova, Maurizio Azzan, Zeno Baldi.

He has won important prizes in composition competitions in Italy and abroad, and has received several commissions for acoustic and mixed music (Orchestra della Magna Grecia, coro Sol-O Canto, Trio Lumen, Caelium).

Ordinary member of S.I.M.C. Italy (Italian Society for Contemporary Music), his works are performed in concerts and festivals of contemporary music, in Italy and abroad (Switzerland, Croatia, America, Japan).

https://francescovitucci.musicaneo.com/

Umut Eldem

Umut Eldem is a composer, musician, and researcher. After receiving his Bachelor's diploma in Composition at the Mimar Sinan State Conservatory, he has continued his Master’s studies in the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp. In the same institution he has done his Postgraduate research, 'Foundations of Cross-Modal Analytic Thinking' on the applicability of synaesthesia and colour as an inter-sensory musical concept.

He has given lectures on his research of synaesthesia, and had his works combining sound and colours performed in Belgium, Turkey, Italy, Romania, and Luxembourg. His installation 'Chrom', made of differently coloured music boxes scattered in the Mirador Forest in Luxembourg, has explored the relationship between music, the senses, and our physical location. His work 'Prelude', for electronics, narrator, and coloured light, has applied the cognitive sound-colour relationship on the interdisciplinary performance practice. ‘Glimmer’, for saxophone, electronics, and live visuals, incorporates the musician as an active participant on the projection of not only the sound, but the visuals as well.

He is currently a PhD researcher in the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp, and musical director of the theatre collective Mixed & United. His current PhD research entitled ‘The Hearing Glass: Synaesthetic Correspondences in The Musical Practice’ intends to develop an intersensory theory of audiovisual art.

https://ap-arts.be/en/person/umut-eldem
https://soundcloud.com/umutreldem

Philippe Hattat

Born in 1993, Philippe Hattat begins his musical studies in 2001 at the Conservatory of Levallois-Perret, then at the Conservatory of Paris in 2003. Entering the CNSMDP in 2011, he is awarded the piano accompaniment prize (2014), piano prize (2016), writing prize (2018) and orchestration prize (2019).

In parallel, from 2005 to 2011, he pursues studies in composition and orchestration with Michel Merlet at the Conservatory of Levallois-Perret. Since then, thanks to increased contact with contemporary creation during his studies at the CNSMDP, he seeks to associate, in his way, a "compositional craftmanship" (using diverse contrapuntal writing resources) with research on timbre (with a current taste for certain forms of saturation), micro-intervals and musical gesture.

Philippe Hattat is winner of the Concours International de Piano d’Orléans (2016) as a pianist and a composer (Special Mention Ricardo Viñes Prize, Special Mention Alberto Ginastera Prize, and André Chevillon – Yvonne Bonnaud Composition Prize).

Sara Chenal (violin)

First prize with distinction at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon in 2003, with R.Dugareil, then A. Roussin as masters, Sara Chenal later attended advanced violin classes at the Rotterdams Conservatorium under the guidance of J.J. Kantorow, then a series of chamber music classes at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris with E. Bellocq, J.J. Kantorow and R. Dyedns.

A full-time member of the orchestra at the Opera of Dijon (1996-2001), she subsequently veered to a career as a soloist and chamber music player, first as member in a string trio, then a “Cordes et Ames/ Strings and Souls" duet with the guitar player Olivier Pelmoine. Since 2006 she plays as first violin in the “Sine Qua Non” string quartet and frequently appears in all sorts of chamber music groups.

She also appears as guest violinist in such ensembles as La Baule, J.W. Audoili, Forum Sinfonietta, Les Musiciens d’Art, Musica de Flandre, Océan and she regularly performs contemporary music with Multilatérale, Cairn, Court-Circuit, Instant Donné or Utopik.

Sara Chenal’s performances take place in France: Paris Cité de la Musique, Théâtre du Châtelet, salle Cortot, Salle Gaveau, l’Olympia, although she has occasionally performed in the Basilique of Vezelay, Mont Saint-Michel, Palais des Papes in Avignon or Theatre Graslin in Nantes... and abroad: Italy, Germany, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Nigeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, Canada.

Several pieces have been dedicated to her ( J.Y.Bosseur, J-L Narvaez, F.Rossé) and she has often been asked to take part in broadcasts, in particular the well-known France-Musique programmes “Dans la Cour des Grands” or “Alla Breve”. She has recorded three CDs for Scarbo with the guitar-player Olivier Pelmoine and appears in miscellaneous recordings with Marc Perrone, Jacques Lenot, Philippe Leloup, Albert Hamman, Emilie Simon, Jean-Pierre Ferey and the quatuor Sine Qua Non.

Sara Chenal is also very keen on teaching and has passed her Certificat d’Aptitude. After teaching for five years at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional in Nantes, and four years at the CEFEDEM Bretagne-Pays de la Loire, she is at present both teacher and coordinator at the district Conservatoire of Paris 9e.

www.sara-chenal.com

Antoine Morinière (guitar)

Antoine Morinière starts his guitar studies at the age of eight with Jean Luc Rocchietti, then he continued with Olivier Chassain at the Conservatory of Bordeaux. In 2011, he enters the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris with Olivier Chassain and Laurent Blanquart. He also received professional guidance from Jeremy Jouve during 2 years, and obtains his Master's degree in guitar with the highest distinction.

Since 2012, Antoine starts travelling around the world with his guitar for solo recitals and concertos, and also performs at various festivals in France.

Interested in contemporary music, he collaborates with the Japanese composer Rikako Watanabe for the piece “Suite pour guitare” wich is also dedicated to him. He also premiered Obscurs for guitar and clarinet by Raphaël Sévère, and a work by Jean Frédéric Neuburger for two guitars (with Thibault Garcia) and clarinet (R.Sévère).

Motivated by the mixture of artistic expressions, he has a project to conjure his guitar with dance in the show "Nocturne" with the contemporary dancer named Joachim Maudet. This spectacle is about 3 guitar pieces, the Nocturnal by B. Britten, Chaconne by J.S.Bach and Entre chien et loup by R. Sévère.

Antoine is also involved in chamber music projects as a guitar clarinet duo with Raphael Sévère, as a guitar duo with Thibaut Garcia, with singer (Marianne Croux, Aude Extremo) with violin (Marianne Piketty), with piano (Jean F. Neuburger).

Antoine Morinière is sponsored by Fondation Safran.

https://antoinemoriniere.com

2021 Residents

Tiago Coimbra	Miho Hakamada
oboe	saxophone
Portugal	Japan

Read more: Sampo Artist Residency (solo performers)