Mio Chareteau
Mio Chareteau is a French-Swiss visual artist of Japanese origin. She starts from concrete materials and composes works at the border between still life, minimalist music and meticulous performance. Her work is articulated around sound and the performed gesture, and takes the form of installations as well as solo performances or in collaboration with musicians. She writes for the vocal ensemble NESEVEN, E-MEX Ensemble, Eklekto Percussion, Hildegard Kleeb, Roland Dahinden and her pieces are presented at the Performance Art Awards (2014), BGNM Festival Sonifikation Berlin (2017), Musée de la Croix-Rouge Geneva (2018), Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne (2019), Espace Commines Paris (2019), Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik Witten (2019), Festival Les Musiques Marseille (2020), De Link Tilburg (2022). She was awarded the Neumann Prize of the City of Geneva and the Swiss Art Award in 2011. She participated with Eklekto in the Archipel 2023 festival with the performance Field Drum Monument for 20 snare drums.
Sarah Hennies
Sarah Hennies (b. 1979, Louisville, KY) is a composer based in Upstate NY whose work is concerned with a variety of musical, sociopolitical, and psychological issues including including queer & trans identity, psychoacoustics, and the social and neurological conditions underlying creative thought. She is primarily a composer of acoustic ensemble music, but is also active in improvisation, film, and performance art. She presents her work internationally as both a composer and percussionist with notable performances at MoMA PS1 (NYC), Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles), Le Guess Who (Utrecht), Festival Cable (Nantes), send + receive (Winnipeg), O’ Art Space (Milan), Cafe Oto (London), ALICE (Copenhagen), and the Edition Festival (Stockholm). As a composer, she has worked with a wide array of performers and ensembles including Bearthoven, Bent Duo, Claire Chase, ensemble 0, Judith Hamann, R. Andrew Lee, The Living Earth Show, Talea Ensemble, Thin Edge New Music Collective, Two-Way Street, Nate Wooley, and Yarn/Wire.
Her ground breaking audio-visual work Contralto (2017) explores transfeminine identity through the elements of “voice feminization” therapy, featuring a cast of transgender women accompanied by a dense and varied musical score for string quartet and three percussionists. The work has been in high demand since its premiere, with numerous performances taking place around North America, Europe, and Australia and was one of four finalists for the 2019 Queer|Art Prize.
She is the recipient of a 2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, a 2016 fellowship in music/sound from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and has received additional support from the Fromm Foundation, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, New Music USA, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Creative Work Fund.
As a scholar and performer she is engaged with ongoing research about the percussion music of Iannis Xenakis and a recording project to document music by the American percussionist and composer Michael Ranta. Sarah is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Bard College.
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Stefan Asbury↓
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Félicia Atkinson↓
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Nik Bärtsch↓
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Mio Chareteau↓
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Fritz Hauser↓
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Sarah Hennies↓
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Étienne Jaumet↓
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Pierre Jodlowski↓
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Sven-Åke Johansson↓
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Malika Kishino↓
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Billy Martin↓
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Thomas Meadowcroft↓
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Isandro Ojeda-García↓
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Tristan Perich↓
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Justina Repečkaitė↓
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Rebecca Saunders↓
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Arturo Tamayo↓
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Kasper T. Toeplitz↓
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Adrien Trybucki↓