Apolline Jesupret, composer (°1995)
Appreciated for the "disconcerting maturity of her writing" (Crescendo Magazine) and the "mastery of her writing and orchestration" (Larsen), Apolline Jesupret defines the energy of her music as a balance between expressiveness and interiority, between delicacy and exaltation, between rhythm and contemplation. Keeping consonance as a guideline, from which she often approaches and sometimes departs, the artist seeks refinement in timbre and orchestral textures, both in writing for large ensembles and for chamber music.
Apolline Jesupret's musical journey began at the age of 7, when she discovered the piano thanks to her teacher Rosella Clini. Her curiosity about improvisation and composition fuelled her daily musical apprenticeship and became a vehicle for expressing her creativity. She then trained at the Conservatoire Royal de Mons with Rosella Clini for piano and Claude Ledoux for composition. In 2017, she specialised in piano and instrumental pedagogy at the Université de Montréal.
Today, Apolline Jesupret commissions compositions for festivals in Belgium and elsewhere in Europe, for ensembles and for soloists and chamber musicians. In 2019, she won the first prize in the 'Ça Balance Musique Contemporaine' competition, and in 2021 the 'Prix André Souris'.
That same year, she joined the Forum de la Création Musicale. In 2023, she composed her first violin concerto, which was performed at the Botanique by Maya Levy and the Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles. In February 2024, her first symphonic work, commissioned by the Ars Musica Festival, has been performed by the Belgian National Orchestra at Bozar in Brussels.
She is currently writing a piano concerto and several other works for orchestra and chamber music ensembles in order to fulfill her already dense orderbook.