The 2026 Composition Workshop gives young artists from Université Paris-8 the opportunity to meet the musicians of the lovemusic collective. The result is exploratory, inventive, personal music.
The 2026 Composition Workshop gives young artists from Université Paris-8 the opportunity to meet the musicians of the lovemusic collective. Between November 2025 and June 2026, several stages marked their journey: a presentation of the instruments and techniques specific to the contemporary repertoire, workshops combining the instruments with an electronic component, and finally a week of rehearsing the pieces in the spaces of the Maison des Sciences Humaines Paris-Nord. Through this writing process, some students discovered the contemporary repertoire, while others deepened their knowledge. The result is exploratory, inventive, personal music. The pieces are written for different ensembles featuring flute, clarinet, viola, and cello, from solo to quartet. Some include a real-time electronic part, seeking to shape sonic virtualities and sketch out improbable acoustic spaces. Established in the 1990s within Université de Paris-8, the Composition Workshop, now directed by Jérôme Combier in association with Anne Sedes, Alain Bonardi, and Paul Goutmann, has welcomed many artists who later went on to pursue composition. The year-round presence of an ensemble specializing in the contemporary repertoire, the combination of instrumental and electronic writing, and the presentation of the project in a professional Paris venue make the Composition Workshop a unique project within universities. lovemusic musicians: Adam Starkie, clarinet(s) Emiliano Gavito, flute(s) Léa Legros-Pontal, viola Celine Papion, cello The Composition Workshop is supported by the CICM / MUSIDANSE, the Music department of université Paris 8, and the ERC Advanced Grant G3S project (Generative Spatial Synthèses of Sound and Music). It is hosted by the Maison des Sciences Humaines et Sociales Paris Nord and the Maison Heinrich Heine.
Source: paris.fr — photo: ©Johannes List