The 2021 Medinea Sessions of the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra (MYO)

They are each open to a dozen of young and talented musicians from the Mediterranean basin building their careers to become professional artists and who have an intense practice of musical improvisation, even of the composition.

Each session is designed for a large diversity of musical aesthetics and Mediterranean expressions and hosts all styles of music using elements of improvisations (jazz, traditional music, early music, etc.). Fabrizio Cassol, composer, saxophonist and jazzman, guides these sessions and proposes to experiment with techniques of collective composition, within an ensemble, with the aim of leading to the creation of a common musical production which also reveals individual singularities. This training offers a unique intercultural experience of the life of an ensemble in creation, in rehearsals and on tour.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the difficulties for traveling that ensued, the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra has been forced to cancel the annual auditions that usually take place in roughly twenty cities in the Mediterranean area. However, any artists who wish to participate in the Medinea sessions may apply via video. Musicians will be selected in partnership with members of the Medinea network.

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In partnership with the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and in collaboration with Medinea network.
With the support of Région SUD – Provence Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Orange Foundation, Mécénat Musical Société Générale, Stavros Niarchos Foundation and Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.