Sillons de Mémoires

Flavia Stricker, soprano, is from Brazil and studied at the Lübeck University of Music. She performed Fiordiligi ("Così fan tutte") at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre and Galathée (Franz von Suppé’s "Die schöne Galathée") at the Lübeck University of Music. In 2023 she won, in addition to the second prize at the Concorso Lirico Internazionale di Portofino, a sponsorship award from the Kulturstiftung Insel Mainau. Since the 2023/24 season she has been a member of the International Opera Studio at Zurich Opera House, where she has appeared, among others, as Madama Cortese ("Il viaggio a Reims"), Kate Pinkerton ("Madama Butterfly"), Contessa di Ceprano ("Rigoletto"), the Widow in Mendelssohn’s "Elias", and in Stravinsky’s "Les Noces". At the Théâtre de La Monnaie in Brussels she sang in Rossini’s "Petite Messe solennelle", and with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in 2025 she performed as Rosalinde ("Die Fledermaus").

Karima El Demerdasch is a German-Egyptian mezzo-soprano. She studied in Cairo and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with John Evans. In 2024, she was a finalist at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and in 2023 participated in the Georg Solti Accademia. In Guildhall School productions, she performed roles such as Prince Orlofsky ("Die Fledermaus") and Dido ("Dido and Aeneas"). In a 2023 production by Opera Kipling, she sang the title role in "La Cenerentola" at the Upstairs at the Gatehouse theatre in London. In 2025, she took part in the Young Singers Project of the Salzburg Festival and made her debut at London’s Barbican Hall. Since the 2025/26 season, she has been a member of the International Opera Studio at the Zürich Opera House.

Samuel Wallace, tenor, is from Brazil, where he studied voice with Lício Bruno. In 2024, he received a scholarship from the Mozarteum Brasileiro and subsequently participated in Rolf Beck’s International Choir Academy in Lübeck. During this time, he performed concerts in Germany and at the Philharmonie de Paris under the direction of Raphaël Pichon. His operatic repertoire includes roles such as Tamino ("The Magic Flute") and the title role in Guilherme Bernstein’s opera "Serafim und der Ort, an dem man nicht stirbt." In 2024, he sang Dorvil in Rossini’s La scala di seta and took part in the Gala Lírica of the 13th Tenor Meeting of Brazil at the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus. Samuel Wallace was a semifinalist at the Paris Opera Competition, a finalist at the Maria Callas Competition, and a prizewinner at the Joaquina Lapinha and Natércia Lopes singing competitions. Since the 2025/26 season, he has been a member of the International Opera Studio at the Zürich Opera House.

Evan Gray is a Swiss bass-baritone from Winterthur. He began his musical training as a treble with the Zürich Boys’ Choir and later transitioned to the bass voice. After initial vocal studies at the Winterthur Conservatory, he continued his education at the prestigious Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. His roles to date include the Forester ("Das schlaue Füchslein"), Figaro ("Le nozze di Figaro"), and Leporello ("Don Giovanni"). As an accomplished recitalist, he has performed Schubert’s "Winterreise" and Vaughan Williams’ "Songs of Travel" multiple times and has collaborated with artists such as Julius Drake and Robert Holl. From 2023 to 2025, he was a guest at the Marlboro Music Festival, where he developed a close artistic relationship with pianist Mitsuko Uchida, who has invited him back for the summer 2026 edition. Since the 2025/26 season, Evan Gray has been a member of the International Opera Studio at the Zürich Opera House.

Henri Bernard Guizirian, bass, completed his vocal studies at the Conservatory in Avignon. In addition, he studied acting with Jean Giraudeau in Paris. After engagements at various theatres in southern France as well as in Heidelberg, he was regularly engaged at the Bayreuth Festival from 2002 to 2015. He has also appeared in numerous roles for cinema, German and French television, as well as in commercial productions. Between 2016 and 2025, guest engagements followed at the Opéra de Paris. His roles include, among others, a doctor ("Macbeth") and Bassa Selim ("Die Entführung aus dem Serail"). Since 2003, he has maintained a regular guest relationship with the Zurich Opera House. Here he portrayed, among others, a robber in "Don Quichotte" and could be heard as a voice in Salvatore Sciarrino’s melodrama "Lohengrin". In the 2025/26 season, he will take part in the world premiere of the music theatre performance "Sillons de Mémoires" by Dzovinar Mikirditsian and Katharina Rosenberger.

Corentin Marillier is a percussionist, performer, and composer whose musical universe lies at the crossroads of experimental, classical, and traditional music. Co-founder and artistic advisor to SoundTrieb and Semblance ensembles, his work explores the cross-disciplinary links between music, performance, and installation, and is oriented toward a post-instrumental practice that combines both sound and visual elements. Working to break down barriers between practices and aesthetics, he promotes both contemporary classical music and experimental trends, notably through a series of interviews with young artists that he has published under the title Conversations. As a percussionist and soloist, he has collaborated with Simon Steen-Andersen, Cathy van Eck, Ariadna Alsina Tarrès, Jérôme Combier, Kasper Toeplitz, Bastien David among others, and works with IRCAM, the Royaumont Foundation, and the Philharmonie de Paris on artistic and educational projects. In February 2023, he was appointed co-artistic director of the Eklekto collective in Geneva, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2024.

In 2011, shortly after graduating from the Geneva University of Music (HEM), Anne joined the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra (KZNPO) in Durban, South Africa, as principal percussionist. After one year, her curiosity and desire for eclectic artistic horizons led her back to the Lake Geneva region, while she continued to maintain a regular orchestral activity with prestigious ensembles such as the Opéra de Lyon Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (Geneva), and the Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne. Since then, depending on the projects, she has moved between percussion, double bass, new forms of instrument making enhanced by electronics, and site-specific performances. As an associate artist at the National Center for Musical Creation in Dijon, Ici l’Onde, in 2023, she created two solo works, "Space Is Only Noise" and "Proscaenium", presented at the Festival d’Aujourd’hui à Demain in Cluny and the Souffle Festival at the Opéra de Dijon. In Proscaenium, she premiered "TRACES XVIII" for four timpani and electronics by Martin Matalon, "Qui?" for two timpani, double bass, and voice by Jean-Pierre Drouet, and "Le son de l’intérieur #2" for amplified double bass, composed by herself. In 2022, an invitation from artist Vanessa Billy to perform at the opening of her sculpture "La Matrice" at EPFL in Lausanne inspired her to conceive a sound performance that gave voice to the artwork itself. This marked the beginning of a series of performances entitled "Le son de l’intérieur". Alongside her artistic activity, she was in charge of the programming and cultural outreach of the Auditorium du Grand Chalon in 2021 and currently co-directs the season of Ensemble Batida. In 2023, she co-founded the Évadée Association, a performance venue located in the city center of Chalon-sur-Saône, and served as co-programmer.

Louis Delignon is a percussionist whose work focuses on contemporary music, electronic music, and digital percussion. His wide-ranging interests lead him to numerous artistic projects, both in theatre as a composer and in improvised and experimental music. He is currently concentrating his artistic research on the development of DIY electronic devices that combine the generation of analogue sound materials with human interaction. In addition, he teaches percussion at the Conservatory of the Canton of Valais and free improvisation at HEMU Valais-Wallis.

Pascal Viglino, a Swiss percussionist based in Bern, studied at music academies in Geneva, London, Barcelona, Berlin, and Bern. He specializes in classical and contemporary percussion as well as music theatre. He is the recipient of the Canton of Bern’s Cultural Recognition Award for Music (2012) and the Canton of Valais Cultural Promotion Award (2015). As a musician, he has performed in over 40 countries with renowned orchestras and contemporary ensembles. In 2011, he founded Klangbox, an artistic platform that connects music with other forms of expression. In 2020, he launched an online platform for musical services. 

In 2020, Pascal Viglino also founded the platform "dans l'Jardin", which enabled more than 2,000 musical performances in French-speaking Switzerland and provided performance opportunities for over 200 musicians despite the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, Bilanz magazine named Pascal Viglino a "Digital Shaper" in the "Creatives" category, an award honouring the 100 individuals shaping digital Switzerland. Since 2025, Pascal Viglino has been the new artistic director of the Schlossmediale Festival in Werdenberg (SG).