Biographies

A Korean composer born July 14, 1961 in Seoul.

A French composer and conductor born May 18, 1957 in Reims.

A French composer born March 21, 1953 in Annecy.

Philippe Moënne-Loccoz studied at the Geneva Conservatory in the electroacoustic composition class of Rainer Boesch. In parallel he followed classes with Philippe Albéra and made some crucial encounters, notably with Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Tristan Murail and Alain Savouret.

A French composer born August 7, 1959.

A French composer born March 7, 1967 in Antony.

A pianist by training, Frédéric Verrières studied at the Brussels Conservatory then the Paris Conservatory in the classes of Marc-André Dalbavie, Gérard Grisey, Michael Levinas, François Théberge and Gabriel Yared. He completed his apprenticeship with a course of computer music at Ircam.

A German and Swiss composer born January 1st, 1960.

Hanspeter Kyburz studied composition with Alexandra Dobrowolsky and Gösta Neuwirth in Graz and then at the Academy of the Arts in Berlin (1982-1990) with Gösta Neuwirth and Frank Michael Beyer, before taking advanced classes with Hans Zender in Frankfurt (1990-1993).

A British composer and conductor born September 8, 1934 in Manchester (United Kingdom) who died March 14, 2016 In Orkney Islands (Scotland).

After studying at the Royal Manchester College of Music (1952-1956) and at Manchester University, Peter Maxwell Davies pursued his studies in Rome with Goffredo Petrassi, then at Princeton in the USA (1962-1964), notably with Milton Babitt.

A French composer born January 25, 1961 in Lyons.

A pianist by training, Christophe Maudot studied at the Lyons Regional Conservatory and at the Paris Conservatory, notably with Pierre Schaefer, Guy Reibel, Laurent Cuniot, Yves Gérard, Betsy Jolas and Alain Bernaud.

A programme advisor for the Orchestre National de France for ten years, he worked at the same time  in research and recording studios, interesting himself in the musical potential of new instruments together with the electroacoustic and digital transformation of sound.

A French composer born December 10, 1944 in Paris.