"Saxophonist and guitarist in his first hours, Karl Naegelen started composition at the Conservatoire National de Region and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon. In 2006, his work is greeted by a diploma with honors and a Scholarship by Foundation Salabert. He continues his training at the Musikhochschule in Hamburg and participated in several masterclasses, including Berlin with George Aperghis. He writes for the Orchestra National de Lyon, Ensemble Résonance Contemporaine, Quartuor Pli, the Ensemble Linea and works regularly with the pianist Wilhem Latchoumia. His creations are played in many festivals in France and abroad: Musica in Strasbourg, Encuentros in Buenos aires, music-Action in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, the International Piano Festival of Girona and Orleans, Paris, Hamburg, Lyon, Berlin, Davos ... Body size, poetic and theatrical inherent in his compositions brought him also to create the soundtrack to various shows. He co-authored with Johanna Lemarchand "Alice in wonder", show for a dancer and two musicians, following a residency at GRAME. He is currently pursuing studies in Java (Indonesia) on the gamelan music. Fascinated by improvisation and music from outside Europe, Karl Naegelen seeks to preserve in writing the flexibility and spontaneity of the music features of oral tradition, through a constant search for quality sound and stamps."

"Morton Feldman was born in New York in 1926 and died there in 1987. Just like Cage, a close friend, he was an American composer - an American artist - an American in the true sense of the word.

He identified himself by differentiating his views on composition from those of his colleagues in Europe. He was proud to be an American because he was convinced that it enabled him the freedom, unparalleled in Europe, to work unfettered by tradition. And, he was an American also in what may have been a slight inferiority complex in the face of cultural traditions in Europe, something he proudly rejected and secretly admired.

Like any true artist, Feldman was endowed with a sensitivity for impressions of a wide variety of sources, literature and painting in particular. His affinity to Samuel Beckett has enriched music literature by a unique music theatre piece, Neither, and two ensemble works. His friendship with abstract impressionist painters gave birth to a range of masterpieces, Rothko Chapel in particular. But even the knotting of oriental rugs gave Feldman musical ideas (The Turfan Fragments).

To the question as to why he preferred soft dynamic levels, he replied:

"- Because when it's loud, you can't hear the sound. You hear its attack. Then you don't hear the sound, only in its decay. And I think that's essentially what impressed Boulez . That he heard a sound, not an attack, emerging and disappearing without attack and decay, almost like an electronic medium.

Also, you have to remember that loud and soft is an aspect of differentiation. And my music is more like a kind of monologue that does not need exclamation point, colon, it does not need..."

Feldman also had an intriguing reply up his sleeve when it came to answering the question why he composed in the first place:

"You know that marvellous remark of Disraeli's? Unfortunately, he was not a good writer, but if he was a great writer, it would have been a wonderful remark. They asked him whydid he begin to write novels. He said because there was nothing to read. (laughs). I felt very much like that in terms of contemporary music. I was not really happy with it. It became like a Rohrschach test".

More than twenty years since his death, Morton Feldman's music is as alive as ever."

"After having studied classical music with Jacques Di Donato, Joris Rühl oriented himself towards contemporary music, written, improvised and jazz, with a predilection for projects blurring the borders between these different labels. He plays with contemporary music ensembles like L'Instant Donné or Hiatus, with jazz ensembles like TØRN, Hübsch 8, Simon Rummel Ensemble and with the experimental music ensembles ONCEIM and Spat' Sonore. He also improvises with, among many others, Michel Doneda, Thierry Madiot, Isabelle Duthoît, Eve Risser, Antez. His discography includes discs released under the labels Neos Jazz, Satelita, OBS and Umlaut Records. Beside this activity of musician, he also works on films and experimental videos."

Amaryllis Billet: violin

"Violinist from the CNSMD of Lyon (Annick Roussin, Laurence Ketels), Amaryllis Billet has perfected her practice as a chamber musician at the CRR of Paris with the Quatuor Ysaÿe and the ProQuartet Association, as well as the baroque mode of playing and interpretation at the CRR of Aubervilliers (Hélène Houzel) then at the Schola Cantorum of Bâle (Amandine Beyer). She plays in the Orchestre Les Siècles (François-Xavier Roth). She explores the contemporary repertoire and creation as well as the pluridisciplinary approach with various formations : Quatuor A4&+ (and its + : Alain Fleischer, Jacques Rebotier, Magic Malik), Fenêtre Ovale (Karl Naegelen), Spat'Sonore, Colonie Bakakaï (theater and music), Ensemble Op.Cit., Grand Sbam, Collectif Umlaut. She played as a soloist the Concerto for violin by Bernard Cavanna within the Ensemble Opus XXI and the Ensemble Mesostics. She is dedicatee of the piece "Ecume" for violin and tape by J. Bertholon.

Amaryllis is co-founder of the Festival Phil Groby destined to present unusual musics to unused public, sings and plays French and other songs in the duo GriFFure."

"Anna Jalving (1991) is a danish violinist, performer and creator currently based in Aarhus, Denmark. An active performer of new music, Anna have premiered works and toured throughout Europe with a large number of international ensembles and orchestras and with her projects DUO and Toile.

She continually works with emerging and established composers, such as Lil Lacy, Allan Gravgaard Madsen, Simon Steen-Andersen, Stefano Gervasoni, Phillippe Hurel, David Helbich, Line Tjørnhøj, Karl Naëgelen, Jürg Frey, Fritz Hauser og Jeppe Ernst.

As a passionated chamber musician she is working with ensembles and orchestras throughout Europe and is regularly invited to play with Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Århus Sinfonietta, SCENATET, Nadar Ensemble, Down The Rabbit Hole, Spectra Ensemble and latest as a soloist with Ensemble Intercontemporain and ULYSSES Ensemble. Anna frequently performs at international festivals such as SPOR Festival, Ars Musica, Manifeste, Ear To The Ground, Festival International d'Art Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence, Ultima Festival among others.

She has been identified as a Promising Young Performer by the Ulysses Network and in 2021 she won Divertimento Ensemble's competition Young Performers On The Digital Stage.

With an innovative approach to sound and instruments - originating from Anna's work with her main instrument, the violin - her work unfold in the field between the tradition and renewal, virtuosity, intuition, the score and the improvisational.

She studied at The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus with Michelle Makarski and Mo Yi and at The British Columbia Academy of Music in Vancouver with Robert Rozek. She completed The Advanced Master in Contemporary Music with ICTUSand Spectra Ensemble in Belgium 2018 - 2019.

From September 2022 Anna is pointed the orchestra leader of Orkester Midtvest."

"A graduate of the Conservatory of Strasbourg, Fanny Paccoud first focuses on chamber music and creation. Since 1999, she has formed a duet with pianist Michel Gaechter, exploring a rich repertoire ranging from Mozart to Schoenberg. She participates in several creations and recordings, including Gérard Pesson's Forever Valley , Pascal Dusapin's Momo, Ai confini dell 'oscurità by Claudio Gabriele, Veillée and Georges Aperghis's Little Red Riding Hood ... We also find her sometimes alongside jazz musicians and improvisers.

Although chamber music and contemporary music play a large part in her activity, Fanny Paccoud does not rule out a thorough search for the interpretation of early music on period instruments. She is a member, as violinist and violist, of the Spiritual Concert (H. Niquet), the English Baroque Soloists (JE Gardiner), the Broken Concert (W. Dongois), Orfeo 55 (N. Stutzmann), the 'Ensemble Amarillis ... with whom she travels the world, and makes many recordings.

In 2002, she founded with the violinist Alice Piérot and the cellist Elena Andreyev, the String Trio Anpapié, which is particularly devoted to the so-called Classic repertoire (recording in 2011 the trios of Hyacinthe Jadin for the label La Courroie).

Privileged partner of the ensemble Amarillis , she has participated in several of her recordings: Ferveur and Extase (Ambronay, 2011), Music Party (AgOgique, 2011), Antoine Dauvergne / Gerard Pesson: The Trojans and The Double Coquette (NoMadMusic, 2015) and Pergolesi - Stabat Mater (Sony classical, 2016). "

Sarah Ledoux, cello.

"After studying with A. Lefebvre, Sarah Ledoux joined the class of J.Deplace and N.Hartmann at the CNSM in Lyon where she obtained the DNESM with honors. From chamber music to the orchestra, from the baroque repertoire to the contemporary, her concert performer are varied. She has played under the direction of the greatest conductors: C. Abbado, P. Boulez, S. Ozawa, D. Gatti in the European Youth Orchestra Gustav Mahler and under that of E. Krivine, D. Robertson, I. Fischer with the Opéra de Lyon and the Orchester National de Lyon.Sarah Ledoux is a member of various ensembles: the Dautremer trio, "Alla Voce", the baroque ensemble Ma Non Troppo and the Pelléas chamber orchestra conducted by B. Lévy. She plays regularly with the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain under the direction of D. Kawka as well as with his symphonic orchestra OSE.

Holder of the Certificate of Aptitude, after ten years at the CRR of Annecy-Pays-de-Savoie, she has just been appointed to Paris at the Conservatoire du XVIIIème arrondissement."