Artistas

Blaise Ubaldini
A truly original musical personality, Blaise Ubaldini is one of the most promising French composers of his generation. His expressive and uniquely inspired music shifts between an insatiable desire for vitality and colour, and a search for depth and authenticity.
A musician with an eclectic background, a clarinettist who plays improvised music and rock, he has rubbed shoulders with outstanding soloists from all musical genres, including classical, contemporary, jazz, and world music, and has used his works to create unexpected musical encounters.
In the monodrama Bérénice, performed at IRCAM in 2014, alongside the Swiss actress Caroline Imhof and the Ensemble Intercontemporain Soloists, he explored an unprecedented osmosis between theatre and music. In 2016, he performed Love song for a long-term hatred with the Israeli trombonist Alon Stoler and the Chémirani Trio, a prestigious ensemble of Iranian percussions. He has collaborated as a clarinettist, then an arranger, with the Tunisian brothers Amine & Hamza Mraihi, virtuosos of the oud and the qanun, and cellist Vincent Ségal on the album Fertile Paradoxes.
His works introduce unconventional and extra-instrumental elements into musical discourse, as well as texts, songs, and onomatopoeias, like so many authentic behaviours or gestures, forever questioning the nature and memory of being and of music alike.
One example is his wind quintet In the backyard premiered in 2018 by the Ensemble Intercontemporain soloists at London’s Wigmore Hall and dedicated to two characters from Twin Peaks, the signature television series by American director David Lynch.
Introduced to composition by William Blank in Lausanne, he joined the class of Michael Jarrell and Luis Naón in Geneva, followed by Ircam in Paris for two years. During this period he met the conductor Pierre Bleuse who directed his chamber opera 4.48, for which he was awarded the Prix Nouveau Talent Musique SACD 2013, as well as the soprano Tatiana Probst with whom he created Sunbathing for voice and electronics at Ircam.
He holds a degree in Indian studies from Lausanne University’s Faculty of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, and has been working on languages and the voice for many years. He has recently begun writing texts, a kind of literary counterpoint that reveals what is at stake in the shadows of his musical works in the spotlight. His collaborators include the Ensemble Intercontemporain, conductor Pierre Bleuse, the Collegium Novum Zürich, the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, soprano Lisa Tatin, the Lucerne Festival Alumni Ensemble, soprano Kornelia Bruggman, the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, clarinetist Jean-Marc Fessard, the vocal ensemble Exaudi, the CH.AU company, the Matka ensemble, and the duo Interférences.

Belgo-French cellist Camille Seghers comes from a very musical family. She has been invited as soloist for recitals all around Europe and Russia. She is now teaching at IMEP and in music schools in Belgium.
As a soloist she has had the pleasure of being invited to perform with the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, the Nuove Musiche, and Ensemble Orchestral of Brussels,…
Camille also gives International masterclasses in music educational centers such as Conservatoire de Liègeand the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
In the field of Chamber Music, she has collaborated with many musicians, Alexis Thibaut de Maisières of course, but also: Philippe Raskin, Quatuor Alfama, Nicolas Dupont,… She is often invited by music festivals and renowned cultural events.
She co-directed the editing of Henri Duparc’s cello sonata, world premiered with Delatour, recorded in her first cd.
Camille holds a Master’s degree, obtained with high distinction from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in Didier Poskin’s and Edmond Baert’s classes, and a Solo & Chamber Music Master degree obtained with highest distinction from Musikhochschule of Köln with Claus Kanngiesser, as well as a Didactic Master at Arts2 in Mons (BE).
She was given the prize of « Prix du patrimoine de la ville de Bruxelles » and decided to perfect her art in Paris and Freiburg with masters Eric Le Sage and Francois Salque.
Ever since, Camille has been invited to take part in numerous International Masterclasses.
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Alexis Thibaut de Maisières performs as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist. He has been invited to perform in venues such as Flagey, Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic, as well as the Salle Alfred Cortot in Paris and at the Conservatoire de Bruxelles. He has played with the Ensemble Orchestral of Brussels, the Young Belgian Strings and the Orchestra of Togliatti Conservatory in Russia.
Alexis trained for six years at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in Saint-Petersburg under the tuition of Leonid Tamoulevitch. He also went on to study with Stanislav Soloviev, Anne Queffélec, Eugène Galand, Jean-Marc Vinckenbosch, Jacques Rouvier and Jean-Bernard Pommier.
Later, he obtained a Didactic Master and a Master in Accompaniment at Arts2.
Passionate about chamber music, Alexis often plays chamber music in duo or with various ensembles. In 2022, he founded the Festival Archipel in Belgium, where he works as artistic director.
Alexis has also been chosen as jury member for the International Piano Competition in Togliatti (RU).
Teacher and accompanist in various music schools in Belgium, he was asked to teach masterclasses in Moscow and Polenovo (RU).
Alexis also writes his own arrangements of Bach, Wagner, Brel, Dyens, Tchaïkovski, as well as Russian folk songs, Chopin…where he likes to challenge and mix different musical styles together.