FEDORA - Les Journées Professionnelles du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence

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31 July 2025

Aix-en-Provence / France

Platform Members, Roadshow

About the event

The 2025 edition featured a rich variety of sessions designed to connect artists, producers, and cultural leaders from around the world. It opened on 7 July with the Concert final de la Résidence Instruments, showcasing two world premieres. On 8 July, the OPERA MAKERS encounters offered a platform for emerging creatives to present new projects to an international audience of professionals, followed by the Prix Pulsations Contemporaines ceremony, which honoured excellence in contemporary composition. That same day, the Midi du Festival - a series of debates and meetings around the 2025 festival programming - took place. This session featured Sivan Eldar (composer of The Nine Jewelled Deer), Unsuk Chin (composer and mentor artist of the 2025 Composition Residency at the Academy), Tanja Elisa Glinsner and Miles Walter (artists from the 2025 Composition Residency), and Janis Susskind (director of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishing). The discussion focused on “The Festival d’Aix Academy: Career Paths of 21st Century Composers”, offering insights into the journeys of over 180 composers trained at the Academy since its founding by Pierre Boulez in 1998. Participants from the 2025 Composition Residency joined alumni to highlight current challenges in composition and the evolving trajectories within contemporary music. The event concluded on 9 July with Accord Majeur’s national meeting, centered on the theme “Musique et Société”, exploring the evolving role of music in public life and cultural policy.

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Every year since 1948, the Festival d’Aix has been boasting a programme of great diversity: opera productions, Mozart operas and early works, major creations, rediscovery of Baroque masterpieces, chamber orchestra operas and exceptional series of concerts.

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