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2025 composers
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.
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).
2024 composers
Masahiro Aogaki
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Masahiro Aogaki (b.1991) is a Japanese composer currently based in Paris. In his recent compositional process, Aogaki has demonstrated a keen interest in redefining the identities of instruments, voices, and texts, while also recontextualizing existing musical languages. Inspired by the poetry of Romanian surrealist Ghérasim Luca, he particularly explores the phenomenon of "stuttering" that characterizes Luca's works, influencing his musical compositions.
In 2017, he obtained his Master’s degree in Composition from Tokyo University of the Arts under Ichiro Nodaira, and later graduated with highest honors unanimously from the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP) in 2022, where he worked with Stefano Gervasoni. In 2022-23, Aogaki participated in the IRCAM Cursus led by Pierre Jodlowski and Simone Conforti. His first portrait concert took place in Paris in July 2023, and his piece Dé-monologue –Cinq poèmes de Ghérasim Luca was nominated for Le Tremplin Musical of the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco in the same year. Since 2023, he has been appointed composer-in-residence at the Conservatoire Claude Debussy in Paris' 17th arrondissement, collaborating with Ensemble Court-circuit.
His works have been performed by various ensembles such as Orchestre de Picardie, Orchestre de Caen, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Court-Circuit, and collettivo_21, among others. Aogaki has participated in numerous masterclasses and received guidance from composers and ensembles including Tristan Murail, Allain Gaussin, Philippe Manoury, Jean-Luc Hervé, Marco Momi, Jaime Reis, Joji Yuasa, Misato Mochizuki, and Diotima Quartet.
Some of his works are published by BabelScores.
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Eliott Delafosse
Eliott Delafosse is a French composer and sound artist based in Brussels.
Very interested in the interaction between electroacoustic and instrumental writing and the ambiguity that can exist at their border, his experience in electronic music feeds his acoustic work, and vice versa. He is co-founder of MNPL with Andrea Tonero, a live electronic duo based on hardware improvisation.
He studied composition with Claude Ledoux and Applied & Interactive Music with Denis Pousseur and Jean-Luc Fafchamps in Mons Royal Conservatory/ARTS2, and was part of the IRCAM cursus in 2023-24.
His works have been performed by various ensembles including Spectra, Erämaa Trio, LAPS, Ensemble Fractales, Ex Novo Ensemble, Ensemble 21, Musiques Nouvelles, Sturm Und Klang, I Solisti - Belgian Wind Ensemble, Symfonie Orkest Vlaanderen.
He won the Henri Pousseur Center’s Prize in 2018 and the Prix André Souris (Forum des Compositeurs) in 2021.
Another aspect of his work includes soundtracks for several short-movies, a long-term collaboration with Buto dancer Quentin Chaveriat, another one with the french dancer and improviser Aurelia Chalono, and some theater and circus music.
He also works on musical installations and performances, in collaboration with other composers, such as Tracking Larry with Simon Vanneste and Sale Payis with Max Charue.
Nicolas Mondon
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Nicolas Mondon is a French composer born in 1980 in Nantes. He studied composition with Philippe Leroux, Allain Gaussin, Horatio Radulescu, and obtained his Masters in composition from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in 2011 where he worked with Gérard Pesson. He then obtained a PhD in composition by working on the link between his music and the traditional Javanese gamelan (doctorat SACRe, CNSMDP & PSL University, 2022).
His previous studies include a diploma in classical piano with Peter Feuchwanger and Jeff Cohen as an accompanist for voice, and others in improvisation, jazz, historical harpsichord, and medieval music. He has studied computer music at IRCAM (Paris) and then carried out a compositional research in 2015, working on a unique system of augmented instruments (SmartInstruments by Adrien Mamou-Mani).
He was awarded the « Prix d'encouragement de l'Académie de Beaux-Arts » (2010), the Chevillon-Bonnaud Prize and the Claude Arrieu SACEM Prize (2014), as well as fellowships from Gargonza Arts (Italy, 2013) and the Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, 2014). He has received several state grants for the composition of a new work; his first monographic CD released in 2022 with the ensemble InSoliTus on the Initiale label is titled Bronze battu en herbes.
Nicolas Mondon is currently teaching composition and he is the artistic director of the ensemble InSoliTus. As a researcher, he has published several articles and dissertations on his work and on the prepared piano. As a pianist, he mainly performs on the prepared piano.
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Tom Belkind
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Tom Belkind is an Israeli/ Austrian Composer, music producer and sound engineer based in Cologne, Germany. He was born in 1990 in Tel Aviv, Israel. His compositional style seeks to combine his background in pop music and music production with abstract means of expression, using the materialistic and physical elements of sound production combined with performative aspects.
In 2016, Belkind started pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Composition in The Buchmann Mehta School of Music (University of Tel Aviv) with composers Josef Bardanashvili and Ruben Seroussi. In 2020, Belkind started his Masters Degree at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with Miroslav Srnka. Today, Belkind is a “Konzertexamen” student at the HfMT Köln. In 2021, he won the Bernd Alois Zimmermann scholarship for new music composition from the City of Cologne and as part of the award was a portrait concert of his music at St. Peter church in Cologne. In 2022, he won the DAAD scholarship for music graduate studies. He also received scholarships from The Jerusalem Institute for New Music and the University of Tel Aviv.
His works have been performed in Israel and Europe by orchestras and ensembles such as Ensemble Recherche (Freiburg, Germany), Meitar Ensemble (Israel), Ensemble Musikfabrik (Cologne/ Germany), Ensemble Erma (Cologne/ Germany) Jack quartet (New York), Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, the Aachen Theater Orchester, and the Cologne Guitar quartet. His works have been features at festivals such as Acht Brücken (Cologne), Wittener Neue Kammermusik Tage (Witten, Germany), Manifeste (Paris) CEME (Tel-Aviv), Tzlil Meudcan (Tel-Aviv) and Contcomp (Haifa, Israel).
Hristina Susak
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Hristina Susak, born in 1996 in Novi Sad, Serbia, began composing music at age 8. She studied composition and music theory at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, graduating from both. Awarded the City of Vienna's prestigious Music Prize, a Stiftung des deutschen Volkes stipend, and an Austrian Ministry of Culture stipend, her compositions have been globally performed by top orchestras and ensembles. Notable performances include those by the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris, composer residence and premiere at La Biennale di Venezia 2024, NDR and MDR Symphony Orchestras, Orquesta de Valencia, Arditti Quartet, the Vokalsolisten Stuttgart and more at prestigious venues and festivals like the Viennese Konzerthaus, Kioi Hall Tokyo, Takefu International Music Festival, Paris Fashion Week and the ECLAT Festival. Since October 2023, she's been a lecturer at the Berlin University of Arts and is pursuing postgraduate studies under Mark Andre.
As a conceptual and performance artist, Hristina participated in a Marina Abramovic workshop in Belgrade in 2019. She is also a respected music theorist and researcher, having lectured at Sorbonne University, Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and other notable institutions.
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