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Marie Delprat
Marie Delprat, recorder player, performer and composer, develops hybrid projects influenced by different musical universes such as early music, contemporary music and experimental music. Beyond this taste for very diverse aesthetics and musical approaches, she has been interested since her first creation, Rage(s), in the play of echoes between music, dance and visual arts. Today, she continues to question the boundaries between media and pushes the limits of sound and music composition. Marie sees her practical work above all as an example and a reflection in her teaching practice. Integrating music theater into teaching is a passion that Marie passes on to her students.
She is also a member of the IGNM Bern committee, which organises and curates concerts and projects at various locations in Bern, as well as the baroque ensemble Ling’Ring Lights and Ensemble Aabat.
In December 2020 she was awarded the music price "Coup de coeur" of the Amt für Kultur des Kantons Bern.
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Katelyn Rose King
A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Katelyn Rose King is a performer and conceptual artist working in the fields of theater, music, and everywhere in-between. Although Katelyn is classically trained in percussion performance and theatrical music interpretation, she often creates her own works with other collaborators and has embodied many differing roles in various artistic projects: directing, composing, compiling, performing, writing, and researching.
While Katelyn still loves performing as a classical contemporary percussionist, her own artistic creations delve into reflections on authorship, performance presence, vocal expressions, composed improvisation, explorations on sound atmospheres, and creation through curation.
Katelyn’s past and present collaborations include work with the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt, Stadttheater Basel, Stadttheater Bern, Lucerne Festival Academy and Alumni, presentations at PASIC and Transplanted Roots Percussion Symposium, and works with composers, directors, and artists such as Ulrich Rasche, Till Wyler von Ballmoos, Jonas Kocher, Katharina Rosenberger, Carolyn Chen, Justin Rabideau, Christopher Adler, and Andrea Mazzariello.
Katelyn has a Master in Composition and Theory in Théâtre Musical from the Hochschule der Künste Bern (CH, 2017), a Master in Music Performance from McGill University (CA, 2015), and a Bachelor in Music Performance from Kennesaw State University (USA, 2013). Her most recent awards include the Rita Zimmermann Musik-Stiftung, Lyra Stiftung, Swiss Excellence/Fulbright, and a McGill Recording Competition Prize.
Maxine Devaud
Maxine Devaud grew up in Fribourg, Switzerland. After studying photography for two years at the École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ÉCAL), she studied musicology and art history at the University of Basel. The violin has accompanied Maxine Devaud almost all her life, and as a violinist she was a member of the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra for many years. From 2013 to 2017 she worked as assistant director on music theatre and theatre productions. She has worked with director such as Calixto Bieito, Christian Zehnder, Ludger Engels, Lydia Steier, Jan Philipp Gloger and Markus Bothe on successful productions at Opernhaus Zurich, Theater Basel and Konzert Theater Bern. Maxine Devaud currently works in Switzerland, Germany and Austria as a theatre producer for various companies (The Navidsons, KLARA Theaterproduktionen, Ensemble Aabat, Novoflot, fonundtsu* Theaterproduktionen, etc.). In 2018 she founded Maxinthewood Productions. She is a scholarship holder of Opera Europa.