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Cécile Marti is both a composer and a visual artist. She studied composition with Dieter Ammann at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and received additional private instruction from Georg Friedrich Haas in Basel. In 2017, she completed her PhD at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship with George Benjamin at King’s College London.

With her very first orchestral work, she won the International Composition Competition held as part of the 9th Weimar Spring Days for Contemporary Music. Her Violin Concerto AdoRatio was premiered in 2010 by violinist Bettina Boller and the Collegium Novum Zürich at the Lucerne Festival.

In 2011, she was awarded the City of Zurich’s annual work grant, and in 2018 she received the Carte Blanche from the Fondation SUISA. This was followed by a six-month composition residency in London and a residency with the Biel/Solothurn Symphony Orchestra.

More recently, she has received commissions from the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonietta Basel, the ZeitRäume Basel Festival, and Radio France, among others.

Her works are performed on all continents and have been featured at major festivals including the Lucerne Festival, reMusik Festival, Warsaw Autumn, Ultraschall Berlin, Rainy Days, Transit Festival, and the Présences Festival in Paris.