Mathieu Corajod

Composer, choreographer and stage director, Mathieu Corajod (*1989, CH/FR) works with instruments, voice, body, space and electronics.

He trained in composition, experimental music theater, computer music and musicology at the Bern University of the Arts (HKB), the University of Bern, and IRCAM (Cursus 18–19), studying under personalities such as Xavier Dayer, Christian Henking, Daniel Weissberg, Françoise Rivalland, Jennifer Walshe, Pierre Sublet, Thierry de Mey, and Simone Conforti.

In 2020, he founded his own interdisciplinary ensemble, Compagnie Mixt Forma, which performed at the Grande Salle of the Centre Pompidou during the Manifeste Festival in Paris. In 2022, he composed and directed his first opera, an outdoor lyrical laboratory commissioned by the Opéra national de Lorraine and the Musica festival. He is laureate of the dance commission for emerging choreographers of the SACD-Beaumarchais Association in duo with Pierre Lison.

His musical works have been commissioned and performed by ensembles and musicians such as Ensemble Divertimento, Ensemble Adapter, Ensemble Interface, Ensemble soyuz21, the Bern Chamber Orchestra, Duo Eventuell, Duo Alto, and Duet 2.26. His electronic works have been featured at institutions including the ICST (Zurich), IRCAM (Paris), and the SAT (Montreal). He has developed a distinctive choreographic language in pieces such as Ça va bien avec comment tu vis (for two dancers and electronics), Axes (instrumental dance), and Kerzenzauber, Muskelkater (body score).

His creations, often performative, interactive, open, pedagogical, or site-specific, include an important collaborative and inclusive dimension. In 2022, during a residency at the Conservatoire de Fribourg, he composed pedagogical works integrating electroacoustic tracks. Selected for the European Merge up! project, he co-founded the composers’ collective CUE Creative/Union/Experience with Giulia Lorusso and Giovanni Montianni.

Mathieu Corajod has benefited from several sources of support, including the Nicati-de Luze Foundation and the Canton of Bern, which awarded him a grant to stay at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris in 2018. In 2022, he conducted a choreographic and musical creation residency at the Royaumont Abbey with Compagnie Mixt Forma and was awarded a “Werkbeitrag” by the Aargauer Kuratorium.

Since 2015, he has held various positions at the Bern University of the Arts (HKB), including assistant, curator, researcher, and guest professor. As a doctoral candidate at the University of Geneva within the HKB research project “Schreiben mit Stimmen”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), he is dedicating his thesis to the work of composer and linguist Hans Wüthrich.