ManiFeste-2025 Festival Academy
ManiFeste, the IRCAM multidisciplinary festival and academy, is a gathering of creative artists in Paris, combining music with other disciplines: theater, dance, digital arts, and visual arts.
The academy welcomes and trains many young composers, performers, and listeners from all over the world to benefit from our large-scale artistic and technological environment and a large public audience during the workshops.
The Academy will provide an opportunity for students, whether active or auditors, to:
- to attend rehearsals of composition workshops and performance master classes
- to follow the courses of the composers, artists, musicians and invited musicians
- to access the exceptional documentary collection of the IRCAM library
- to attend all the academy workshops and master classes free of charge
- to benefit from special rates for ManiFeste-2025 festival concerts
In 2025, the academy invites Italian composer Lucia Ronchetti, patron of the 2025 ÉLAN Award, and Italian composer Matteo Franceschini, in partnership with the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France conducted by German-Iranian Yalda Zamani, Italian composer Carmine-Emanuele Cella who leads a workshop dedicated to acousmatic music in 3D space, French engineer and multidisciplinary artist TremensS (Thomas Bouaziz) and French sound designer and producer Ténèbre (Paul Escande) who lead a workshop based on the Polytope de Cluny, Italian flutist Matteo Cesari who leads and conduct young musicians from the Ulysses ensemble, and Spanish conductor Daniel Huertas who leads the NEXT ensemble, with complicity of the musicians from the Ensemble intercontemporain to celebrate Pierre Boulez centenary.
The thirteenth edition of the academy is based on close relationships with the following cultural and educational institutions: the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, the Council on International Educational Exchange (American universities), the École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière, the Ensemble intercontemporain, associated ensemble with the Academy, l’Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, the Ulysses Platform, co-funded by the European Union.
- Le chef Georg Köhler et la pianiste Marie-Ange Nguci, répétition de la Finale du Prix Élan 2022, ManiFeste-2022 © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Quentin Chevrier
- Master classe voix et électronique, avec la chanteuse Valérie Philippin, répétition au CENTQUATRE-PARIS, ManiFeste-2021 © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Quentin Chevrier
- Concert de l'Ensemble ULYSSES au CENTQUATRE-PARIS, ManiFeste-2021 © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Quentin Chevrier
- Finale du Prix Élan 2022, répétitions, ManiFeste-2022 © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Quentin Chevrier
- Concert de l'Ensemble ULYSSES au CENTQUATRE-PARIS, ManiFeste-2021 © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Quentin Chevrier
- Master classe voix et électronique, avec la chanteuse Valérie Philippin, répétition au CENTQUATRE-PARIS, ManiFeste-2021 © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Quentin Chevrier
- After workshop at the CENTQUATRE-PARIS © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Quentin Chevrier