Alexandros Markeas in residency

The announcement was made during the closing concert of the 74th edition of the Music Festival on September 25: composer-pianist Alexandros Markeas will take over from Camille Pépin for a two-year residency at the Festival in 2022/2023.
After several composers who are attached to so-called “neo-tonal” or modal aesthetics, far from the experimental currents of the Ircam or Boulez circles, the Festival has chosen a composer – also a pianist and improviser – who traces his own path in various musical languages, with multiple influences and inspirations.

Alexandros Markeas is the tenth composer in residence at the Festival.
He succeeds Camille Pépin (2020/2021), Éric Tanguy (2018/2019), Philippe Hersant (2016/2017), Guillaume Connesson (2014/2015), Misato Mochizuki (2012/2013), Michael Jarrell (2010/2011), Édith Canat de Chizy (2009), Bruno Mantovani (2006/2008) and Philippe Fénelon (2004/2005).

As a player in the creation and dissemination of contemporary music, the Festival has been developing a composer residency project for nearly twenty years.
The regular presence of a composer, able to present his work to the public throughout the year, facilitates access to his universe and to contemporary music in general.