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 the first price at the Swiss music competition for youth musicians 2017, the price of l’Heure bleu Festival 2020, the first price at the FrauMünsterhof21 Competition 2021 and the Open Call MusikfestivalBern 2021.

She obtained the scholarship of Nicati-De-Luze and is supported by this association 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. Since 2019 she studies with her main teachers Leopold Dick and Simon Steen-Andersen at the University of the Arts Bern as well as Prof. Daniel Ott at the University of the Arts in Berlin.

She won 2nd price at NICATI COMPETITION for new music.