Giulia Lorusso

Giulia Lorusso (1990, Italy) is an Italian composer based in Paris, who trained at the Paris Conservatoire and at IRCAM. Her work covers a broad spectrum of musical forms, ranging from instrumental and electro-acoustic pieces to interdisciplinary projects, installations, multimedia works, and musical theatre. Engaged in a critical dialogue with tradition, she explores new ways of conceiving musical form and the listening experience, the role of the audience, interaction between performers and listeners, and the relationship with space. Collaboration is at the heart of her approach: she works with philosophers, visual artists, and researchers.

Her residency project is devoted to writing Cercle, a musical work for choir, percussion, electronics, and video, inspired by the myth of the sorceress Circe and its reworking by Madeline Miller. Following a movement of descent and re-emergence that symbolizes transformation, Cercle is divided into two tableaux. The first, immersive, unfolds in a Roman grotto and invites introspective submersion. The second, ritualistic and collective, stages the discovery of a new self in relation to others. Music, voice and video weave a sensory narrative in which the audience becomes actively involved in an experience that questions the search for identity and metamorphosis.