To date, I have been led to collaborate with these ensembles / artists.
A few words, just to raise curiosity, a short silence to captivate and music to tell stories...
this is the very soul of MÉRION.
Guitars and a violin combine intricately to create an experience where each piece is a unique story, drawing you with them through time, space and imagination. Gabrielle, Julien and Josquin are your guides in this intriguing voyage during which emotions and feelings mingle with daring and simplicity.
One of the leading ensembles for new music.
Quality, experimentation and innovative programming with an eye on current events are our most important characteristics. Thanks to a wide network of musicians, conductors, composers and versatile young makers and partners from various art disciplines, Asko|Schönberg is able to contribute to the future of performing arts.
Focused on research and the writings of opera and musical theater, TOTEM (s) is part of the vocation of the National Center for Show Writing. It was born in 2014 from a joint desire of Catherine Dan and Roland Auzet, composer and artistic director of the Cie Act-Opus, to set up a research-creation academy, welcoming young authors and composers.
9/8/2018 Musikfestival Bern 2018 - Ensembles TEMA & POLYTHEISTIC: horloges souterraines
World premieres by Luis Felipe Arteaga, Eunsun Lee, Matthias Ockert, Timmy Schenk, Josquin Schwizgebel and Tomas Westbrooke.
Supported by the Bern University of the Arts and the promotion of the Baden-Württemberg Jazz Association.
The ENSEMBLE NUANCE was launched in 2013 by the Basel violinist Malwina Sosnowski.
Contemporary, newly discovered and rediscovered pieces are juxtaposed, experimental media connections and scenic forms of performance are sought. Other arts are integrated across all sectors. Versatility and playfulness, paired with uncompromising professionalism form the self-claim of the ensemble.
100 cellos and double basses, from beginners to professionals, united in concert? Yes, it works, and how!
Since 2009, the CELLOBASS group in Bern has been organizing large-scale educational and artistic projects every 2 to 3 years, involving 7 music schools: Konsi Bern, Köniz, Aare Valley, Wohlen, Muri-Gümligen, Biel, Bucheggberg. So far, 5 such projects have been carried out.
Founded in 2010, ensemble proton bern has established itself as one of the top new music groups.
The actual goal is however much greater: they want to bring people closer to new music.
To this end, the musicians seek contact to and are able to discuss the contemporary sound world with their audience.
Les Rêveries Acoustiques is a collective of musicians from improvised and contemporary music.
Created in 2016, the project was born from a musical correspondence between the Swiss pianist Roland Favre and the double bass player Benoît Converset based in Canada. Through collaborations with dance, visual and plastic arts, Rêveries Acoustiques explore different concepts from contemporary music, such as graphic scores and interdisciplinary games.
The Drunken Leprechauns, the Irish rock band that rocks the shores of Geneva Lake.
For more than a decade, The Drunken Leprechauns have been touring the stages of French-speaking Switzerland to the delight of Irish music fans, but not only! Their talented musicians also know how to adapt to their audience and offer a programme tinged with heartbreaking rock or more peaceful songs, when the atmosphere suggests it.
Concordia Festival for Contemporary Music and Art is one of the most important international projects of the Ikana Art Foundation.
Its goal is to develop an experimental cross-over aesthetic approach and new models of interaction and integration between different arts and genres.
Swiss based group of 4 percussionists who enjoy performing and producing events together.
In recent years they have established themselves not only as interpreters of contemporary music, but also as collaborators to a wide base of artists, include projects like «eins+eins» and FlatterSOUND with Zimoun, Julian Sartorius, Myriam Bleu, Strotter Inst. Lê Quan Ninh, Marko Ciciliani, Jürg Frey, and Michael Maierhof, among others.
The International Summer Academy Biel promotes particularly talented music students as well as young instrumentalists and singers from all over the world in annual master classes held in July. The lecturers are all internationally renowned personalities who hold professorships at Swiss or foreign universities. A special feature of the Summer Academy Biel is the participation of a professional orchestra. Students are thus offered the unique opportunity to rehearse and perform as soloists with orchestral accompaniment.
Winner of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) Competition in 2019 and defined as the "Classical Guitar Revelation 2017" by the french magazine "Guitar Classical Magazine", Johan Smith has been invited to perform in renowned festivals, as concert and soloist, with orchestras such as the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, and the Verbier Festival Orchestra. His particular interest in contemporary music has led him to collaborate with several composers.