RudolfRobert Rudolf

Composer born in 1963 in Bratislava (Slovakia), began his musical studies at the National Conservatory of Bratislava. Before perfectioning them further in Paris, he pursued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts of his birth town. During this period, in the mid 80's, he also takes an interest in plastic arts and in collaborations with plastic artists. His musical performances, composed or improvised, which accompanied his friends' exhibitiona, were first oriented towards instrumental and electronic (tape) music).

With time the composer took part in several projects looking to adher as close as possible to the work of the plastic artist while preserving a musical and an intellectual independance. At the end of the decade, he leaves for Paris. He studies composition with Yoshihisha Taïra, electroacoustic composition with Michel Zbar, and assists in classes by François-Bernard Mâche at the University of Strasbourg. Once set in Paris, he continues writing and making new tapes for art installations in France and abroad. In this framework he has developed a strategy for musical interactivity that he puts at the heart of his creations ever since.


BertocchiSerge Bertocchi

An eclectic musician born in Albertville (Savoy), he founded the following ensembles : XASAX, the Thuillier-Bertocchi (tuba-saxophones) duo, the Trio Lézards Dégénérés (guitar, tubax, drums), the Baritone Trio (F. Corneloup, D. Lazro), The “40 after JC” quartet, the Amiens Sax Project saxophone ensemble, Ars Gallica quartet ; he plays with Yochk'O Seffer, Art Zoyd, Musiques Nouvelles Mons, the Radio-France Philharmonic Orchestra; he played under Myung Wung Chung, Armin Jordan, Peter Eötvös, Arie van Beek, Sylvain Cambreling, Pascal Rophé, Luca Francesconi ...

Soloist, chamber musician or improviser, he also plays and records solo, with tape or computer : in Europe, Northern América, Middle East and Asia. Serge Bertocchi is a laureate of the Paris Conservatory (1st prize with unanimity in saxophone and chamber music), along with 6 International competitions.

He is recognised as a specialist of the baritone saxophone since the foundation of the Ars Gallica quartet in 1985, and of XASAX in 1991. More recently, he adopted (and plays regularly) extreme, rare or forgotten instruments of the saxophone familly : Tubax, soprillo, C-melody tenor, c-soprano and even the F Mezzo-soprano. He premiered around 200 new pieces by composers of all kinds, and recorded 38 CDs to this day.


DutrieuPierre Dutrieu

Hving studied with Claude Crousier (Conservatory of Nice), Pierre Dutrieu is awarded his first prizes in clarinet (classe of Guy Deplus) and chamber music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.

His interest for the contemporary repertoire brings him to premier numerous works during concerts in France and abroad: Royal Academy of music in London, Mexico, China (Hong Kong and Tzen-Hen), Toronto, Montreal, Festival d’Angers, Festival of Darmstadt, RAI in Turin, Academia Chigiana in Sienna, Villa Médicis (Italy), Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Finland…

He has performed as a soloist various contemporary works that count in the most difficult of the repertoire, of which the famous Dialogue de l’ombre double (Pierre Boulez) in France and abroad. He regularly receives requests from researches at Ircam for different projects, the lates concerning the development of a quarter-tone variable mouthpiece, the psychophysiologic link between physical instrumental gesture and its direct correspondance with the musical disourse.

He has aready recorded various pieces as soloist, chamber musician and ensemble.

Pierre Dutrieu is a certified professor at the Regional Conservatory of Cergy-Pontoise. Composing as well, he has written solo and chamber music pieces, some of which have an educational vocation.

He is co-author of the book « 10 ans avec la clarinette » ("Ten years with the carinet", I.P.M.C.), a work that collects a large choice of pieces by levels of two years of instrumental studies. He currently prepares a publication dedicated to contemporary techniques for the clarinet.


NardeauJohann Nardeau

Young French-Icelandic trumpet player, Johann Nardeau graduated from the conservatories of Reykjavik, Rueil-Malmaison and Paris. Having had a childhood and adolescence rich in musical experiences in Iceland, he pursues his career in Paris since 2005. He plays in different ensembles, the Orchestre des Lauréats du Conservatoire (OLC), the contemporary ensemble REGARDSand the brass-band Cu+2.

Johann has the opportunity to collaborate as a substitute in national orchestras such as Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris and Ensemble Intercontemporain, but also in foreign orchestras like the Icelandic Symphonic Orchestra and the Orchestra of Macao.

With some friends from the Conservatory he creates in 2010 the Quintette du Printemps, which received an award at the Blois chamber music contest – Musique au Centre (2012). Johann is winner of the international contests of Budapest (2009) and Moscow (2011). He regularly performs as a soloist with major repertoire works.

Passionate about the diversity of the repertoire for his instrument, he also plays baroque concertos and Bach's orchestral scoresfor piccolo trumpet, chamber music for cornet, and since recently baroque trumpet. Johann also experiments trumpet with electronic sounds, with "Metallics" as well as for his master's at Paris conservatory. Johan Nardeau is recording the CD “Le Chant de Borée” with modern Scandinavian music for trumpet.


NovakovaClara Novakova

Clara Novakova was born in Brno in Czech Republic. She studied flute in Italy (Riva del Garda), at the Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart in Germany and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris with Michel Debost, from where she grduates brilliantly having received several 1st prizes in 1988.

At this time she is already solo flutist at the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, a title that she will keep until 2006. In parallel, she follows a career as a soloist and chamber musician with several French, Spanish and Czech ensembles.

Winner of several International Awards (Ancona, Palmi, Stresa Contest, Rotary Club Stuttgart Prize, Pro Musicis Award...), Clara Novakova performs in Europe, America and Asia and records for numerous radios and televisions, as well as for different record labels (EMI, MODE New York, Maguelone, Universal, Premiers Horizons Paris, Gallo Switzerland, LH Productions Praha etc.). She also collaborates with several composers (Martin Matalon, Alexander Mihalic, Yoshihisa Taïra, Philippe Manoury...) and regularly premieres works that are dedicated to her.

In 2013 she was appointed flute professor at Soochow University in Suzhou, China.