Cursus 2022.23
Exploring and integrating the potential of electronics: this is the challenge faced by Cursus composers during their year of training in the technologies and computer programs developed at IRCAM. Two evenings was presented their final projects : Ten eclectic proposals, revealing the diversity of musical worlds, highlighting voice in all its forms, as well as performance and improvisation.
The 2022.23 Class
Selected Composers for Cursus 2022.23
Masahiro Aogaki
Masahiro Aogaki (Japan, b. 1991) received his Master's degree in composition at the Tokyo University of the Arts, (Tokyo Geidai) studying under Ichiro Nodaïra. In 2017, he was admitted to the Paris Conservatory (Cnsmdp) in Stefano Gervasoni's class, and …
Anna Arkushyna
Anna Arkushyna (Ukraine, b. 1989) studied composition at the National Academy of Music of Ukraine with Alla Zagaikevych and Eugene Stankovych and at Kunstuniversität Graz with Beat Furrer and Franck Bedrossian. Her works have been performed at festivals …
Omer Barash
Omer Barash’s (Israel, b. 1995) main compositional interests include the exploration of movement and gesture in music. His work is often inspired by Hebrew texts and traditions and the soundscapes that surround him. Barash’s musical education includes st…
Henri Colombat
Henri Colombat (France-United States, b. 1997) is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music exploring the various possible links between poetic images and sound. While his sonic approach is rooted in experimental and classical music, his creative …
Engin Dağlık
Engin Dağlık (Turkey, b. 1987) is a musician who essentially explores the potential of space in his work, by combining different production tools and techniques. He is mostly interested in producing work that aims to recreate and reshape the perception o…
Andrew Harlan
Andrew Harlan (United States, b. 1995) is a composer, bassist, improviser, and sound designer. His music exists at the intersections of long-form ambient music, experimental club music, dystopian sound design, chamber music, and electroacoustic improvisa…
Simon Kanzler
Simon Kanzler (Germany, b. 1988) is a composer, laptop improviser, and vibraphonist. He has a diverse musical background both as an improviser—originally on the vibraphone and in recent years primarily on his self-made modular software instrument—and as …
Jawher Matmati
Jawher Matmati (Tunisia, born 1993) is a composer; he graduated in 2011. with a diploma in Arabic music. He entered the School and University Symphony Orchestra, founded by Hafedh Makni, as a cellist, before becoming its director from 2014 to 2016. In 20…
Kirsten Milenko
Kirsten Milenko (Australia, b. 1993) is an Australian composer and conductor. Her music creates acoustic and electronic settings of an immersive and beautifully strange nature. She is represented with the Australian Music Centre as an Associate Artist, a…
Tomislav Oliver
Tomislav Oliver (Croatia, b. 1987) is a composer whose aesthetic draws on interdisciplinary influences such as postmodern literature, linguistics as well as the aesthetic of kinetic art. His works revolve around the idea of heterotopic spaces in which mu…