Patricia Alessandrini
Patricia Alessandrini is a composer/sound artist, electronics performer, instrument builder, and researcher. Her interactive, intermedial and theatrical compositions have been presented in the Americas, Asia and Australia, and in more than 15 European countries, at festivals such as Archipel, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Electric Spring, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Heidelberger Frühling, Gaudeamus, Mostly Mozart, Musica Strasbourg, rainy days, Ruhrtriennale, Salzburg Biennale, TimeSpans, Wien Modern and Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik.
She studied at the Conservatorio di Bologna, Conservatoire de Strasbourg, and IRCAM, and holds PhDs from Princeton University and the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC). She is a Professor of Artistic Research at the HEMU – Haute École de Musique, HES-SO Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale, and previously taught Composition at Stanford University, Sonic Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and Composition with Technology at Bangor University. She has been awarded Guggenheim (2022) and Radcliffe (2024) fellowships. She serves on the advisory boards of ShareMusic & Performing Arts, a Swedish knowledge center for inclusion, and the Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music (PRiSM) in the UK, and currently performs research on inclusive multimodal and immersive experience, feminist paradigms of technology, soft robotics, and automata more generally.
Her published works are available from BabelScores.
Photo: Alis Moseley
Marco Fusi
Marco Fusi is a violinist/violist, a researcher in music performance and a passionate advocate for the music of our time.
Among many collaborations with emerging and established composers, he has premiered works by Jessie Marino, Tim McCormack, Yu Kuwabara, Evan Johnson, and Kristine Tjøgersen. Marco has performed with Pierre Boulez, Elena Schwarz, Lorin Maazel, Susanna Mälkki, and Alan Gilbert, and frequently plays with leading contemporary ensembles including Klangforum Wien, MusikFabrik, Meitar Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, and Ensemble Linea. He has recorded several solo albums, published by Kairos, Stradivarius, col legno, Da Vinci, Geiger Grammofon, and New Focus Recordings. Marco also plays viola d’amore, commissioning new pieces and collaborating with composers to promote and expand existing repertoire for the instrument.
After his Masters in Violin and Composition at the Conservatory of Milan, Marco received his PhD from the University of Antwerp / docARTES program with a dissertation on the performance practice of Giacinto Scelsi’s works for string instruments.
He is currently Assistant Professor of Artistic Research at the HEMU – Haute École de Musique, Lausanne and Associate Researcher at the Orpheus Instituut of Gent.
Photo: Winnie Huang