The Artistic Director

Serge Vuille is a Swiss programmer, curator, percussionist and composer active on the contemporary and experimental music scene.

He has developed an open and committed vision of today's music with the Kammer Klang series and the percussion and electronics ensemble We Spoke, of which he was artistic director for five and ten years respectively. In April 2018, he took over as artistic director of the Ensemble Contrechamps, with which he continues to develop, promote and contextualise contemporary and new instrumental music.

As a musician, he has performed with the London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Ictus, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Martin Creed Band, and as a soloist at the Huddersfield HCMF, London LCMF, Schubertiades, SMC Lausanne, Musikpodium Zürich and Druskomanija Vilnius festivals. He regularly collaborates with composers, performers and artists to create new works, and composes concert music and multimedia pieces that are performed in Switzerland, Europe and America.

He teaches experimental music and coaches the percussion ensemble at the Royal College of Music in London. He also regularly gives masterclasses and workshops at Birmingham Conservatoire and to dance students at La Manufacture in Lausanne.