Artistic Identity and Professional Presentation When putting forward your qualities as a professional musician, it is important to focus on your presentation skills. All artistic work involves an element of self-promotion as well as communication about your project. Some of the most basic and most requested professional self-communication tools are of course: Your CV accompanied […]

A great variety of musical repertoires from the Mediterranean have made their way to us, thanks to the sophisticated, uninterrupted oral transmission of expressions and artistic practices that have been memorised and shared by generations of artists. Through a process of collective composition, the artists put their own musical heritage into play along with the […]

Unfortunately, due to the sanitary crisis, the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa and the Festival d’Aix regret to announce the cancellation of the Lisbon session. All applications received will of course be kept and reconsidered for the selection of participants for future sessions. More info about the cancellation HERE An open program to the […]

An open program to the finest young musicians and improvisers from the Mediterranean The four 2021 Medinea Sessions of the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra (MYO) are each open to a dozen of young and talented musicians from the Mediterranean basin building their careers to become professional artists and who have an intense practice of musical improvisation, […]

A training programme to raise public awareness of the arts, open to musicians from all walks of life. For 10 years, a multi-session training programme to raise public awareness of the arts has given young artists the opportunity to put their musical talents into practice and to develop their professional skills outside of the concert […]

Florence, alias Kimsar on stage, is a French singer-songwriter and ethnomusicologist. Her stage name comes from a pristine Himalayan village where she collected North-Indian songs for a PhD on the local music scene. She is currently developing several projects in the South of France: a solo musical theatre play adapted from the short story The […]

Marouane is a young Musician from Oujda, a city in the Far East of Morocco, he’s mainly specialized in playing wind instruments as well as singing. His Musical journey started since childhood while playing with neighbourhood groups who play cultural “Issawa” and “Dakka Marrakchia” two Moroccan traditional genres based on traditional wind instruments and percussion. […]

Sarra is a Tunis-based vocalist and Oud player. At only 19, she has already won several national singing and Oud competitions, performed with the Tunisian National Orchestra and the “Rachidia” traditional orchestra, and toured internationally throughout Europe, Northern Africa and the United States. Sarra was selected for the OneBeat program which brings together emerging musical […]

Borislav was born in Bulgaria –Zvanichevo village. When he was seven, he started to sing and later he started to play gadulka (Bulgarian national instrument ). At fourteen, he started to study in National school for folk arts ‘’Filip Koutev’’ in Kotel city. In 2011, he finished with speciality –Gadulka. In the same year he […]

Driven by his love for the energy of rock music, Benoit Quentin starts his musical practice in a self-taught way on the electric bass and began composing from the very first time he picked the instrument. His curiosity for other rhythmic and harmonic forms leads him quickly to learn to the double bass and to […]

Considered one of the top stars of her generation, Korean cellist Christine J. Lee was a top laureate of the first Queen Elisabeth International Cello Competition in Brussels and winner of the First Prize at the Isang Yun International Cello Competition in Korea in 2018. Some of her highlights for this season include her debut […]

Born in A Small Mediterranean Country Called Lebanon. He started his musical studies at a young age, At The Lebanese National Higher Conservatory in Beirut in 2005 that he will end obtaining his diploma in violin full with new projects. While studying, he was a member of the Classical Youth Orchestra, The Lebanese Oriental Orchestra […]

Loup started playing the drums in Cluny, his hometown, at the age of 6. Through his influences and listening, he quickly became interested in jazz and improvised music. Being the only musician in his family, he will have to have a great desire to learn and a strong motivation. It is precisely his desire and […]