The Rise

Eva Reiter

Eva Reiter, born in Vienna, studied recorder and viola da gamba at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She works as a musician, composer, performer, lecturer and artistic curator. She teaches at academies for early music and for composition (ARCO – Art Research and Creation, Marseille; Voix Nouvelles Academy, Royaumont, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik a. o.).  Since 2020 she has been teaching composition at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien. In 2021, she was awarded a grant from the City of Vienna for the artistic research project Transforming Instrumental Gestures. For the year 2024 she was invited as guest curator for the Klangspuren Festival. Eva Reiter performs as a soloist and with various orchestras and ensembles for early and contemporary music (including Ictus, Klangforum Wien). Since 2015 she has been a member of the Belgian ensemble Ictus.

Her work as a composer has received several awards. She has performed her compositions at international festivals such as ISCM World New Music Festival, Wien Modern, Klangspuren, MaerzMusik, musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Kunstenfestivaldasarts, Wiener Festwochen and others. In the 2019/20 season Eva Reiter was resident artist at the Elbphiharmonie Hamburg and the Wiener Konzerthaus

Michiel Vandevelde

Michiel Vandevelde studied dance and choreography at P.A.R.T.S., Brussels. He is active as a choreographer, curator, writer and editor. As a curator he is currently connected to Arts Centre DE SINGEL (Antwerp, BE). Previously, as a freelancer he worked for Extra City Kunsthal, Het Bos, Bâtard festival, Precarious Pavilions. Vandevelde’s artistic work is presented and supported throughout Europe by Münchner Kammerspiele, Kaaitheater, Concertgebouw Brugge/Dans in Brugge, Platform-K, PACT Zollverein, Wiener Festwochen, steirischer herbst, STUK, Viernulvier, Theater Neumarkt, among others. From 2017 to 2021 Michiel Vandevelde was artist in residence at Kaaitheater (Brussels, BE). In 2021-2022 Vandevelde was Creative Ambassador of the city of Leuven (BE).

In his work he investigates the elements that constitute or obstruct the contemporary public sphere. He explores which other social, economic and cultural alternatives we can imagine in order to question, challenge and transform dominant logics and ways of organizing. He has been developing a variety of projects both in public space and in (performing) arts institutions.

Ictus Ensemble

Ictus is a Brussels-based contemporary music ensemble. Since 1994, it has shared the premises of the P.A.R.T.S dance school, and the Rosas company (headed by Anne-Teresa De Keersmaeker) with which it has collaborated on fifteen productions, from Amor Constante to Repertoire Evening. Ictus has also worked with other choreographers including Wim Vandekeybus, Maud Le Pladec, Ula Sickle, Noé Soulier, Eleanor Bauer, Fumiyo Ikeda, Etienne Guilloteau and Claire Croizé.

Ictus has shared, and sometimes amplified, current questions about the future of contemporary music. Initially led by conductor Georges-Elie Octors, at a time when ensembles saw themselves as mini-orchestras made up of highly technical soloists, Ictus mutated into an “electric orchestra” and hired, for example, a regular sound engineer as an instrumentalist. It then became a multifaceted collective of creative musicians, dedicated to experimental music in the broadest sense.