Description
Composer, choreographer, and director, Mathieu Corajod (1989, CH/FR) works with instruments, voice, body, space, and electronics.
After studying at the Bern University of the Arts (HKB), the University of Bern, and IRCAM (Cursus 18-19), he founded his own interdisciplinary ensemble, Compagnie Mixt Forma, which performed at the Grande Salle of the Centre Pompidou as part of the Manifeste Festival in Paris. In 2022, he composed and directed his first opera, commissioned by the Opéra national de Lorraine and the Musica festival. He is a recipient of the Beaumarchais-SACD dance commission for emerging choreographers, awarded in collaboration with Pierre Lison.
His musical works have been commissioned and performed by ensembles and musicians such as Ensemble Divertimento, Ensemble Adapter, Ensemble Interface, Ensemble soyuz21, the Bern Chamber Orchestra, Duo Eventuell, and Duo Alto. His electronic works have been presented at venues such as ICST (Zurich), IRCAM (Paris), and SAT (Montreal).
He develops a choreographic language in pieces like Ça va bien avec comment tu vis (for two dancers and electronics), Axes (instrumental dance), Lazzi du nez (for imaginary violin), and Anima (breath for dancer(s)).
His open, interactive, performative, educational, and site-specific works include a significant collaborative and inclusive dimension. During a residency at the Fribourg Conservatory, he composed educational pieces with electroacoustic accompaniment. Selected for the European project Merge up!, he co-founded the composer collective CUE (Creative/Union/Experience) with Giulia Lorusso and Giovanni Montianni.
Mathieu Corajod has received grants from several foundations, including Nicati-de Luze. In 2018, the Artistic Commission of the Canton of Bern awarded him a residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. In 2022, he was in residence for choreographic and musical creation at the Royaumont Abbey with Compagnie Mixt Forma. In 2022, he also received support from the Aargauer Kuratorium in the form of a Werkbeitrag.
Since 2015, he has held various positions at the Bern University of the Arts (assistant, curator, researcher, guest professor). As a PhD candidate at the University of Geneva, within the research project « Schreiben mit Stimmen » at HKB, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), he is dedicating his thesis to the work of composer and linguist Hans Wüthrich.