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.
More details on https://www.ircam.fr/transmission/manifeste/academie
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.
The Academy will provide an opportunity for auditors (composers, musicians, musicologists, teachers, researchers...):
• to attend rehearsals of composition workshops and performance master classes
• to follow the courses of the composers, artists, musicians and invited musicians
• to access the exceptional documentary collection of the IRCAM library
• to attend all the academy workshops and master classes concerts, free of charge
• to benefit from special rates for ManiFeste-2025 festival concerts
• to meet artists and participants in the academy.
Conditions
Registration fees: 200 €. These fees cover the entire academy (June 10—22, 2024). These fees cover the entire academy (June 16—28, 2025).
The fees are due in full, even if the auditor does not participate in the entire academy. Registration fees are due in full on Tuesday, May 13, 2025.
The academy does not offer any scholarships or housing. Participants must find their own housing.
Applications
There is no age limit.
Application deadline Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Applicants will receive a response by email
Teachers who wish to attend the academy with a group of students are requested to contact academy (@) ircam.fr
Applicants must send to academie (@) ircam.fr an e.mail, with following information and documents, object “ManiFeste-2025 academy: auditor application – LAS TNAME First name”:
• Personal information:
- First name, last name
- Gender
- Date of birth
- Citizenship
- Address
- Mobile phone number
- Jpeg photo of the applicant’s face that can be used by IRCAM for access badges and academy documents
• A CV (pdf) indicating their name, date of birth, nationality, profession, contacts, photo
• A letter of motivation indicating the applicant’s name, date of birth, nationality, profession
Details are available at web pages:
https://www.ircam.fr/manifeste/academie/auditeurs