Clémence Martel (lives and works in Tuscany and Paris), is a soprano, performer and composer. After a degree in flute and then lyric singing in Paris, Rotterdam and Lausanne, she specialises in contemporary music at the Neue Musik Studio of the HMDK Stuttgart. Trained in singing by Angelica Luz, Luisa Castellani and Jeannette Fisher, and in composition by Alessandro Ratoci, she also followed the classes of Jennifer Welshe, Verena Weiss and Jessie Marino in performance and performing arts. She collaborated with composers Philippe Hersant, Alain Louvier, Martin Schüttler and Isabel Mundry, she was artistic director of a contemporary musical season at the HEMU and was part of the Factory project with Massimo Furlan in 2017. In 2020, she was awarded the City of Fribourg Prize for Contemporary Music. In 2021, she participated in the Gier event and the Werkstatt Festival in Stuttgart, then in the Teatro del Suono festival organized by the Cantierezero collective in Trieste. She was also invited to participate in the mentoring of the french national network of musical creation “Futurs Composés”. In August 2022 she will be in residence at the Bijloke Muzikcentrum in Gent.

 Transdisciplinary artist-researcher, Clémence Martel develops a research-creation practice that articulates (re) interpretation, composition and performance, and whose field of experimentation is the interaction between synthetic artistic objects and the organic of the body.