Call for Composers!
BE Connect 2024 with Ensemble Fractales
BE connect
residency 2025
BE connect residency with Ensemble Fractales, 13-19 July 2025 in Belgium.
Here are the five composers selected in last year's call.
Christoffer Håård
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Christoffer Håård is an Oslo-based composer of contemporary music. His music can often be characterized by an exploration of musical spaces etween the vulnerable and the banal, where fragile and unstable ranging to abrasive sounds are allowed to live, breath, develop and die out - as well as playful musical idioms, displaying great naïveté, exist in juxtaposition.
Born 1997 in Jönköping, Sweden, he completed his Masters in composition at the Norwegian Academy in Oslo 2025. This following Bachelor studies at the same institution as well as studies at the Gotland School of Composition (Visby, Sweden) pre-bachelor program. He also spent one year on ERASMUS exchange studies at Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, Germany. His previous composition teachers include, among others Asbjørn Schaathun, Eivind Buene, Mark Andre, Trond Reinholdtsen, Stefan Prins, Per Mårtensson, having also received tutorage and masterclasses from Chaya Czernowin, Manos Tsangaris, George Lewis, Carola Bauckholt, Lisa Streich, Oscar Bianchi among others.
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Clément Pauvert​
Through a sound exploration particularly based on fragility, Clément Pauvert's work focuses on the notion of time, and how different hearing situations and musical figures can experience it. He also develops a poetic universe of literary and visual evocations.
He first studied composition with Jean-Luc Hervé at the Boulogne-Billancourt conservatory. In 2021, he joined the musicology and analysis program at the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP), studying particularly with Claude Ledoux. He is currently studying composition with Frédéric Durieux and electroacoustic music with Yan Maresz and Luis Naón at the CNSMDP since 2023.
His music has been performed by ensembles such as L’Itinéraire, Ensemble Intercontemporain and Ensemble Chromoson at the Salzburg Crossroads Festival in 2022. He has also received advice from composers such as Jérôme Combier and Ramon Lazkano.
Matías De Roux​
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Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Matías de Roux is a composer whose work explores perception, memory, pulsation, timbre, and instrument building. His compositions have been performed by ensembles such as loadbang, TAK Ensemble, Dither Electric Guitar Quartet, Tana String Quartet, Ensemble Maja, Aurinko, Orchestre des Lauréats du Conservatoire de Paris (OLC), and soloists from the Ensemble Intercontemporain.
Matías is currently pursuing a D.M.A. in Composition at Cornell University, studying with Kevin Ernste and Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Music Composition from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia), where he studied with Guillermo Gaviria. Matías also holds a DNSPM and an M.A. from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), where he studied composition with Frédéric Durieux and electronic music composition with Luis Naón and Yan Maresz.
Yuri Demetz​
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Yuri Demetz is an Italian composer and pianist currently living in Leipzig, Germany. His approach is characterized by his strive to write music that is visceral and can have a direct impact on the listener, without shying away from humorous or even grotesque elements. At times, he consciously and purposefully delves into musical clichés that can have a significant effect on the emotive impact and expressivity of his music. This way of writing partly stems from Yuri’s deep interest in rock and metal music and his past involvement in various such bands.
Yuri completed his Master’s degree at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Fabien Lévy. Previously, he studied piano performance with Deniz Gelenbe at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, where he also studied composition with Douglas Finch and Amir Konjani.
In recent years, Yuri has had the opportunity to write for and collaborate with many ensembles and orchestras, such as Ensemble Recherche, the MDR-Sinfonieorchester (with conductor Michael Wendeberg), ATEM Ensemble, Ensemble Suono Giallo, Contemporary Insights Ensemble, and Concrète [Lab] Ensemble.
​Sarah Wéry
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Sarah Wéry is a Belgian composer born in 1987, trained at the Conservatoire de Liège.
She has written several pieces for ensemble, the last two cycles of which, “Glory Hole”, “Gang Bang”, “Bukkake” and the suite “Perspectives d'avenir”, feature a literary and visual aspect. She writes and performs for theater and dance, and creates sound and visual installations. Since 2016, she has been performing her solo pieces ( “La vie en sachets I, II, III et IV” , “Le passage” et “Jus d’Amour”, “Les garçons et les filles”) in concert and on the radio; she forms the electromechanical duo P1TT1 with Adrien Guerne and writes for the brass band Autotest. She co-organizes the annual Outsider Art Festival Reverso in Imola, Italy.
She is currently creating the music for “Soleil”, directed by Armel Roussel, based on texts by Raymond Carver (2025); writing the music for the opera “Une histoire Naturelle” co-produced by Théâtre de Liège and Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, based on a text by Cécile Hupin (2027); Writes the serie "Idle dancers" for sound installation and Fractales (2025); Writes and conceptualizes “Sandness” a performative piece for the Tiptoe Company (2026).
