Lucia
Ronchetti

ManiFeste, the IRCAM multidisciplinary festival and academy, is a gathering of creative artists in Paris, combining music with other disciplines: theater, dance, digital arts, and visual arts.

The academy welcomes and trains many young composers, performers, and listeners from all over the world to benefit from our large-scale artistic and technological environment and a large public audience during the workshops.In 2025, the academy invites Italian composer Lucia Ronchetti, patron of the 2025 ÉLAN Award, and Italian composer Matteo Franceschini, in partnership with the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France conducted by German-Iranian Yalda Zamani, Italian composer Carmine-Emanuele Cella who leads a workshop dedicated to acousmatic music in 3D space, French engineer and multidisciplinary artist TremensS (Thomas Bouaziz) and French sound designer and producer Ténèbre (Paul Escande) who lead a workshop based on the Polytope de Cluny, Italian flutist Matteo Cesari who leads and conduct young musicians from the Ulysses ensemble, and Spanish conductor Daniel Huertas who leads the NEXT ensemble, with complicity of the musicians from the Ensemble intercontemporain to celebrate Pierre Boulez centenary.

The academy also offers master classes and composition courses, including:

Sessions with guest composers Lucia Ronchetti, Matteo Franceschini, and Carmine-Emanuele Cella
Workshops with composers premiering at ManiFeste-2025: Arnau Brichs, Mauro Lanza, Mei-Fang Lin, Diana Soh, Claudia-Jane Scroccaro, Hèctor Parra, and Adrien Trybucki
A course by Sasha J. Blondeau, composer in artistic residency at IRCAM, in collaboration with researcher Jean-Louis Giavitto
A class with Grégoire Lorieux, computer music designer and lecturer at IRCAM
Masterclasses by instrumentalists Luca Mariani (oboe) and Matteo Cesari (flute), focusing on their instruments, repertoires, and playing techniques