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Séverine Morfin Séverine Morfin creates a dialogue between composition and improvisation, musique concrète, jazz and traditional music, electroacoustic music, poetry and song. Since 2016, she has created numerous projects: MAD MAPLE, a mixed-media work with Elodie Pasquier (clarinets), Guillaume Magne (guitar), and Céline Grangey (soundtracks); SIMONE quartet with Sophie Bernado (bassoon), Tatiana Paris (guitar), and Mathieu Penot (drums); and others. In 2019, she was awarded the Royaumont Foundation Prize for Prototype as a composer. Eclectic in her approach, she collaborates with numerous artists from diverse backgrounds, including Joëlle Léandre, Jean-Marie Machado, Fred Pallem, Ellinoa, Piers Faccini, Andy Emler, Thomas de Pourquery, the ONJ (Orchestre National de Jazz), the poet Jacques Rebotier, and the writer Violaine Schwarzt. She also composes music for choreographers Joana Schweizer and Antoine Arbeit. Trained in classical viola and jazz at the Paris Conservatory, she holds a Master's degree in Contemporary History and a Master 2 in Musicology from the Sorbonne. She has been the artistic director of the gArden company since 2017 and plays a hybrid viola created in collaboration with luthier Patrick Charton.