LUDMILLA MERCIER

Ludmilla Mercier (b.1997) is a Swiss-based performer, composer, and installation artist. Her work is based on the meeting point between music theatre, visual effects, movements, and multimedia. It includes projections, samplers, electronics effects, and the use of personally crafted objects. She often creates in collaboration with other artists, like dancers, choreographers, sound artists, mathematicians, comedians, or philosophers.

She won among others the 2nd price at NICATI COMPETITION for new music 2023, the first price at the FrauMünsterhof21 Competition 2021, the Open Call MusikfestivalBern 2021, the price of l'Heure bleu Festival 2020 and the first price at the Swiss music competition for youth musicians 2017.

She obtained the scholarship of Nicati-De-Luze and was supported by them for the year 2021-2022.

Ludmilla Mercier studied with Natasa Maric, Arturo Coralles and Sara Boesch in Geneva from 2007 to 2017. From 2017 to 2019, she acquired her bachelor at the University of the Arts Bern in Classical Flute Music with Prof. Christian Stüdler. In 2023, she obtained her Master's degree with first-class honors from her main teachers Leopold Dick and Simon Steen-Andersen at the University of the Arts in Berne, and from Prof. Daniel Ott at the University of the Arts in Berlin.

Since then, she has worked on various creations and collaborations produced in Switzerland and Europe.