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Sasha J. Blondeau is a composer of contemporary mixed instrumental and electroacoustic music. He holds a doctorate in musical composition from the Ircam-Sorbonne Universités-CNRS program, and is interested in the interaction between instrumental and electronic writing within the same expressive space. Questions of hybridity, disidentification and "other spaces", in the Foucauldian sense of the term, are at the heart of his work.
A 2012 graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon in the composition classes of Denis Lorrain and François Roux, Sasha J. Blondeau obtained his doctorate in composition at Ircam in 2017, as part of the Representations Musicales team, where he worked in particular on the Antescofo language and the new possibilities of electronic writing that he involves with his research director Jean-Louis Giavitto.
Iel is resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris from July 2013 to June 2015, then from 2019 to 2020. Iel is the winner of the 2012 Francis and Mica Salabert Foundation Prize and the 2018 Sacem "Claude Arrieu" Prize.
He has received commissions from the Philharmonie de Paris, SWR Donaueschinger Musiktage, Wittener Tage Für Neue Kammermusik (WDR), Ensemble Intercontemporain, Radio France, Ircam, Festival Musica, Ministère de la Culture, Festival Messiaen, Percussions de Strasbourg, GMEM and Françoise and Jean-Philippe Billarant.
Sasha J. Blondeau has worked with the Orchestre de Paris, Ensemble intercontemporain, Diotima Quartet, ensembles Kwadrofonik, Court-Circuit, Talea, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Insomnio and with performers Sarah Maria Sun, Musikfabrik soloists Barbara Kinga Majewska, Hae-Sun Kang, Christophe Desjardins and Séverine Ballon. For their Cortèges project, François Chaignaud, Hélène Giannecchini and Sasha J. Blondeau were in residence at Royaumont and Villa San Francisco (Villa Albertine - USA) in 2022.
Sasha J. Blondeau was a resident at the Villa Médicis, Académie de France in Rome, for 2018-2019, then resident in 2020 and 2021. He was resident at the Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia (Germany) in 2022-2023 and supported by the Centre National de la Musique.