Composers' Workshops

Elaine Mitchener is a veteran of vocal expression in the global Black Avant Garde, traversing free improvisation, cross-disciplinary music theatre and contemporary composition with clarity and joy. Her debut album SOLO THROAT released in May 2024 under Café Oto’s OTORUKO label has been described as “An uncompromisingly...

The music of composer Sivan Eldar has been described as “resolutely of our time” (Opera Forum), “striking in its singularity” (ResMusica), “luxurious and rapturous” (SF Classical Voice), “Vividly imagined” (The Boston Globe), and "with a unique sensitivity to dramaturgy" (Diapason). Recent projects include Like Flesh (...

Quatuor Bozzini has been an original voice and strong advocate in new, experimental and classical music since 1999. Driving the hyper-creative Montréal scene and beyond, the quartet cultivates an ethos of risk-taking, experimentation, and collaboration, venturing boldly off the beaten track. With a rigorous eye for quality...

Born on 27 February 1959 in Paris, Frédéric Durieux began piano lessons at the age of 5. He continued his musical education at the Conservatoire national de région in Grenoble (harmony and counterpoint), earning there a gold medal in Harmony (1981). He was admitted to the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de...