Puits Couriot Parc-Musée de la Mine
Conservatoire de Saint-Etienne
Opus Centrum Ensemble
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).
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).
Tiago Coimbra (oboe)
Tiago Coimbra is principal oboe in the Göttinger Symphony Orchestra, in Germany. He was member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and makes guest appearances regularly as principal oboe at the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Staatsoper Hannover, Staatsorchester Braunschweig Staatsorchester Kassel, Remix Ensemble Casa da Música and Orquestra XXI. He joined also the the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Opernhaus Zürich, Orquestra Gulbenkian and Orquestra Nacional do Porto.
He has performed in the main European cities, as well as in Russia, China and Japan. Coimbra was awarded prizes in international competitions and played as soloist with Basel Kammerorchester, Göttinger Symphonie Orchester, Philharmonic of Yakutia, Filarmonia das Beiras and Argovia Philharmonic, among others.
Chamber music takes a very important role in his career. He plays often with the ensemble Camerata Nov'Arte, harpist Carolina Coimbra, CODA Quintet, Trio Fermata and with soloists of the Göttinger Symphony Orchestra.
He has worked with some of the most important composers of his time, Hans Ulrich Lehmann, Helmut Lachenmann, Heinz Holliger, James MacMillan, Sérgio Azevedo, Luís Carvalho and David Philip Hefti, and performed the premiere of some of their pieces for the oboe.
He started his oboe lessons with Saul Silva and Ana Madalena Silva in Portugal at the Music Conservatoire in Vila Nova de Gaia, his hometown. Later on he completed a Master’s degree at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste with Thomas Indermühle having finished in 2013 with the highest mark. In 2016, Tiago finished, with distinction, the Soloist Diplome studies at the Hochschule für Musik Basel with Emanuel Abbühl. Furthermore, he studied with Maurice Bourgue at the Academie Musicale de Villecroze.
Tiago Coimbra was a scholarship holder of the prestigious Swiss foundations LYRA Stiftung, Fritz-Gerber Stiftung, Bruno-Schuler Stiftung, among others. He is currently in the last year of his doctoral investigation program at Universidade de Aveiro, in Portugal.
Miho Hakamada (saxophone)
Miho Hakamada was born in Ichinomiya in Japan. She started learning the saxophone at the age of 10 as member of a symphonic band and receives her first lesson at the age of 12.
After obtaining a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Kobe, she specializes in a Master of Arts Management, but also deepens her instrumental work by widening her saxophone repertoire and continues her symphonic band activities during her studies.
She spends a year as an Erasmus student at the Paris Diderot University in Art and Literature (2015-2016). She decides at that time to focus her studies on professional musical performance as a saxophone player. She is admitted to the Conservary of the 6th district of Paris with Chiharu Lemarié, with whom she obtains a diploma in musical studies in 2017.
In 2017, she enters the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris in Claude Delangle's class, as well as Jens MacManama's chamber music class (saxophone and piano), obtaining her degree in 2020.
She is currently pursuing her Master's in saxophone and in generative improvisation with Alexandros Markeas and Vincent Lê Quang.
Her career is punctuated by numerous awards:1st prize unanimously in the Nantes International Contest in 2017, and she is notably winner of the legendary 7th Concours International Adolphe Sax de Dinant in 2019. She gets to perform as a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of Belgium.
In parallel with her activity as a performer, she is very active in the organization of artistic projects and concerts at festivals, as well as educational concerts, in particular in collaboration with the University of Kobe and the city of Hino, Tokyo.
She participates in a major tour in China with Triton Quartet in 2019.
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.
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.
2021 Residents
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| Tiago Coimbra | Miho Hakamada |
| oboe | saxophone |
| Portugal | Japan |
In an effort to support the creation and interpretation of mixed music, Musinfo organizes a residency for soloists who wish to transcend the sound boundaries of their instrument with the Sampo.
Intended for performers of any acoustic instrument, the Sampo allows oneto deepen their musical expression in any place and in complete autonomy. In addition to new compositions, Sampo gives access to the existing repertoire of mixed music, which contributes to enlarging the performers' personal repertoires.
The residency will end with a concert during the ASD Festival. This concert will combine both premieres and repertoire pieces. For the premieres, the performers will be working with the winner composers of the Composition contest for acoustic instrument and Sampo. The residency allows the composer and performer to perfect the performance of the piece together.
The performers are invited to choose themselves the repertory pieces they wish to play alongside the works of the winning composers. This approach makes the concert in their image
15-30 May 2020
Due to the current COVID-19 crisis, the festival will not take pplace in 2020. We hope to see you in 2021!
18 May 2021 at 20h
Self-production, self-publication: a mirage of bedridden literature ?
Jean-Michel Pinon
New computer tools are pushing some of us to realize the dream of total control over our creations and seem to make the traditional circuits of production and distribution almost obsolete. Through the experience of Aranea Editions, a micro-structure of publishing works and digital projects whose cradle is located in Bourges (Cher), we will try to see things more clearly. Artistic emancipation? Alienating freedom? Mirage?
Based on the model of literary publishing, which can easily be transposed to other disciplines such as music or photography, we are offering you a small audio-video podcast, necessarily "homemade", to open the debate.
=> Watch online (French)
1st June 2021 at 20h
The mirage of language impoverishment
Fabien Cothenet
The French language is our true national treasure: we love its accents, its rhythm, and the literary heritage it has generated. Yet voices are being raised in alarm. The language is in danger, threatened by the Anglo-Saxon invasions that once helped forge it, as well as by the impoverishment of its vocabulary and syntax due to the less than rigorous uses made of it by the younger generations. Is this the case? Is the language becoming poorer? Or is it a mirage? Is the cathedral of the French language on fire?
Fabien Cothenet is a translator and founder of the translation agency In Translatio. He is passionate about linguistics, evolution, usage and study of languages.
=> Watch online (French)
29 June 2021 POSTPONED TO 20 JULY
Augmented instruments - aural mirages
Alexander Mihalic
Musical instruments evolve constantly according to technological advances, new knowledge and demands from musicians.
The search for new sounds pushes to invent new instruments on one hand, and to modify already existing ones on the other. By adding internal or external elements, it is possible to increase the sound expressions of existing instruments.
While such elements were mechanical in the beginning, the 20th century has brought us electronic means to transform sound. In this case, we speak about augmented instruments. One extension like this is the Sampo.
A composer and PhD in musicology, Alexander Mihalic is the creator of the Sampo. Having a passion for the link between science and art, he is particularly interested in gestural interfaces and the sonification of data. Alexander Mihalic is currently focusing on the development of the Sampo and on the management of Musinfo association, where he serves as Chairman.
=> Watch online (French with English subtitles)
4 May 2021 at 20h
Transitions
Let's stop for the time of a concert to assist to the delicate encounter between a classical instrument and electronic sounds. Like the light that bends in a mirage, the familiar soundscape is progressively distorted, deviated, until reappearing in a different shape. Let these transient mixtures carry yourself into parallel universes.
With her violin, Noémie Saintandré takes us from one atmosphere to another through four contemporary works that she performs with the Sampo.
Program:
| João Pedro Oliveira | Magma | |||
| Anna Rubin | Stolen Gold | |||
| Umut Eldem | Bound | |||
| Alice Shields | Kyrielle |
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15 June 2021 at 20h
Passionate about world instruments, Nicolas Vincent invites us to a musical journey. His improvisations take us to far away countries through the traditional sounds of the Oriental world.
But the journey goes even further, to unheard sound universes, where we may discover new timbres to these traditional instruments thanks to their augmentation with the Sampo. Open your ears and join us in this sonic exploration in the green setting of the source of Adoue.
Itinerary:
| Morin khuur |
Mongolia | |
| Kamancheh | Iran | |
| Duduk |
Armenia | |
| Erhu | China | |
| Mohan veena |
India |
29 June 2021 at 20h
Metamorphoses
The loom transforms through its machinery and thanks to the expertise of the weaver, delicate threads into ribbons with sophisticated patterns. In the same way, the Sampo metamorphoses acoustic sound into music of complex and colorful texture.
Recorded in the historical setup of the Lacemaker's house museum in Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds, this concert is the result of a collaboration between solo performers Tiago Coimbra (Portugal) and Miho Hakamada (Japan), artists-in-residency in Saint-Etienne, and winner composers of the 2021 Sampo Composition Contest, Zuriñe F. Gerenabarrena (Spain) and Francesco Vitucci (Italy).
Performers:
Tiago Coimbra – oboe and Sampo
Miho Hakamada – saxophone and Sampo
Program:
| Zuriñe F. Gerenabarrena |
Izar * | oboe and Sampo | |||
| Pierre Jodlowski | Le dernier songe de Samuel Beckett | saxophone and Sampo | |||
| Dan Schwartz |
February Strike |
oboe and Sampo | |||
| Sam Shin | Arrows beyond | oboe and Sampo | |||
| Georgia Spiropoulos |
Saksti | saxophone and Sampo | |||
| Francesco Vitucci |
At the Origin of * |
saxophone and Sampo |
* World premiere
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Concert realized with the support from the i-Portunus mobility program.
Saint-Etienne – May 2020
"Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen" - Anaxagoras
As part of the Art & Science Days, Musinfo proposes to composers and artists from around the world to participate in a call for a sound or multimedia work.
We dedicate this 2020 edition of the call for works to mirages in their different dimensions.
Read more: Seventh call for work for composers and multimedia artists
Contest / Residency Results
The international jury selected two winners of Sampo Contest / Residency:
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| Umut Eldem (Turkey / Belgium) |
Philippe Hattat (France) |
