Call for Composers!
BE Connect 2024 with Ensemble Fractales
BE connect
residency 2024
Here are the five composers selected in last year's call. Their new pieces will be performed on 22 February 2025 in Brussels at the Music Instrument Museum. Keep an eye on our calendar for more details.
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Eliott Delafosse
Eliott Delafosse is a French composer and sound artist based in Brussels.
Very interested in the interaction between electroacoustic and instrumental writing and the ambiguity that can exist at their border, his experience in electronic music feeds his acoustic work, and vice versa. He is co-founder of MNPL with Andrea Tonero, a live electronic duo based on hardware improvisation.
He studied composition with Claude Ledoux and Applied & Interactive Music with Denis Pousseur and Jean-Luc Fafchamps in Mons Royal Conservatory/ARTS2, and was part of the IRCAM cursus in 2023-24.
His works have been performed by various ensembles including Spectra, Erämaa Trio, LAPS, Ensemble Fractales, Ex Novo Ensemble, Ensemble 21, Musiques Nouvelles, Sturm Und Klang, I Solisti - Belgian Wind Ensemble, Symfonie Orkest Vlaanderen.
He won the Henri Pousseur Center’s Prize in 2018 and the Prix André Souris (Forum des Compositeurs) in 2021.
Another aspect of his work includes soundtracks for several short-movies, a long-term collaboration with Buto dancer Quentin Chaveriat, another one with the french dancer and improviser Aurelia Chalono, and some theater and circus music.
He also works on musical installations and performances, in collaboration with other composers, such as Tracking Larry with Simon Vanneste and Sale Payis with Max Charue.
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Tom Belkind
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Tom Belkind is an Israeli/ Austrian Composer, music producer and sound engineer based in Cologne, Germany. He was born in 1990 in Tel Aviv, Israel. His compositional style seeks to combine his background in pop music and music production with abstract means of expression, using the materialistic and physical elements of sound production combined with performative aspects.
In 2016, Belkind started pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Composition in The Buchmann Mehta School of Music (University of Tel Aviv) with composers Josef Bardanashvili and Ruben Seroussi. In 2020, Belkind started his Masters Degree at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with Miroslav Srnka. Today, Belkind is a “Konzertexamen” student at the HfMT Köln. In 2021, he won the Bernd Alois Zimmermann scholarship for new music composition from the City of Cologne and as part of the award was a portrait concert of his music at St. Peter church in Cologne. In 2022, he won the DAAD scholarship for music graduate studies. He also received scholarships from The Jerusalem Institute for New Music and the University of Tel Aviv.
His works have been performed in Israel and Europe by orchestras and ensembles such as Ensemble Recherche (Freiburg, Germany), Meitar Ensemble (Israel), Ensemble Musikfabrik (Cologne/ Germany), Ensemble Erma (Cologne/ Germany) Jack quartet (New York), Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, the Aachen Theater Orchester, and the Cologne Guitar quartet. His works have been features at festivals such as Acht Brücken (Cologne), Wittener Neue Kammermusik Tage (Witten, Germany), Manifeste (Paris) CEME (Tel-Aviv), Tzlil Meudcan (Tel-Aviv) and Contcomp (Haifa, Israel).
Nicolas Mondon
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Nicolas Mondon is a French composer born in 1980 in Nantes. He studied composition with Philippe Leroux, Allain Gaussin, Horatio Radulescu, and obtained his Masters in composition from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in 2011 where he worked with Gérard Pesson. He then obtained a PhD in composition by working on the link between his music and the traditional Javanese gamelan (doctorat SACRe, CNSMDP & PSL University, 2022).
His previous studies include a diploma in classical piano with Peter Feuchwanger and Jeff Cohen as an accompanist for voice, and others in improvisation, jazz, historical harpsichord, and medieval music. He has studied computer music at IRCAM (Paris) and then carried out a compositional research in 2015, working on a unique system of augmented instruments (SmartInstruments by Adrien Mamou-Mani).
He was awarded the « Prix d'encouragement de l'Académie de Beaux-Arts » (2010), the Chevillon-Bonnaud Prize and the Claude Arrieu SACEM Prize (2014), as well as fellowships from Gargonza Arts (Italy, 2013) and the Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, 2014). He has received several state grants for the composition of a new work; his first monographic CD released in 2022 with the ensemble InSoliTus on the Initiale label is titled Bronze battu en herbes.
Nicolas Mondon is currently teaching composition and he is the artistic director of the ensemble InSoliTus. As a researcher, he has published several articles and dissertations on his work and on the prepared piano. As a pianist, he mainly performs on the prepared piano.
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Hristina Susak
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Hristina Susak, born in 1996 in Novi Sad, Serbia, began composing music at age 8. She studied composition and music theory at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, graduating from both. Awarded the City of Vienna's prestigious Music Prize, a Stiftung des deutschen Volkes stipend, and an Austrian Ministry of Culture stipend, her compositions have been globally performed by top orchestras and ensembles. Notable performances include those by the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris, composer residence and premiere at La Biennale di Venezia 2024, NDR and MDR Symphony Orchestras, Orquesta de Valencia, Arditti Quartet, the Vokalsolisten Stuttgart and more at prestigious venues and festivals like the Viennese Konzerthaus, Kioi Hall Tokyo, Takefu International Music Festival, Paris Fashion Week and the ECLAT Festival. Since October 2023, she's been a lecturer at the Berlin University of Arts and is pursuing postgraduate studies under Mark Andre.
As a conceptual and performance artist, Hristina participated in a Marina Abramovic workshop in Belgrade in 2019. She is also a respected music theorist and researcher, having lectured at Sorbonne University, Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and other notable institutions.
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Masahiro Aogaki
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Masahiro Aogaki (b.1991) is a Japanese composer currently based in Paris. In his recent compositional process, Aogaki has demonstrated a keen interest in redefining the identities of instruments, voices, and texts, while also recontextualizing existing musical languages. Inspired by the poetry of Romanian surrealist Ghérasim Luca, he particularly explores the phenomenon of "stuttering" that characterizes Luca's works, influencing his musical compositions.
In 2017, he obtained his Master’s degree in Composition from Tokyo University of the Arts under Ichiro Nodaira, and later graduated with highest honors unanimously from the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP) in 2022, where he worked with Stefano Gervasoni. In 2022-23, Aogaki participated in the IRCAM Cursus led by Pierre Jodlowski and Simone Conforti. His first portrait concert took place in Paris in July 2023, and his piece Dé-monologue –Cinq poèmes de Ghérasim Luca was nominated for Le Tremplin Musical of the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco in the same year. Since 2023, he has been appointed composer-in-residence at the Conservatoire Claude Debussy in Paris' 17th arrondissement, collaborating with Ensemble Court-circuit.
His works have been performed by various ensembles such as Orchestre de Picardie, Orchestre de Caen, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Court-Circuit, and collettivo_21, among others. Aogaki has participated in numerous masterclasses and received guidance from composers and ensembles including Tristan Murail, Allain Gaussin, Philippe Manoury, Jean-Luc Hervé, Marco Momi, Jaime Reis, Joji Yuasa, Misato Mochizuki, and Diotima Quartet.
Some of his works are published by BabelScores.
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