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Rebecca Minten (IT/CH/DE)

Credits: Verena Brüning

Rebecca is an eclectic clarinetist based in Switzerland, sometimes. Her practice centers on experimental music, transdisciplinary creation, and improvisation. Interested in alternative performance formats, she collaborates on immersive shows involving experimental music across various disciplines and contexts. Additionally, she's involved in jazz/folk music scenes and curiosity leads her to many more artistic practices to extend her research.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts as well as a Master in Music Performance with honors from the Bern University of the Arts where she’s been studying in the class of Ernesto Molinari specializing in bass and contrabass clarinet. She pursued her studies in contemporary music at the Hochschule für Musik Basel under the guidance of Marcus Weiss, Mike Svoboda, Sarah Maria Sun and Yaron Deutsch.

From diverse collaborations, she has co-founded various groups that are currently active in Switzerland and abroad like the Tzupati Orchestra (balkan/klezmer), IPSO (transdisciplinary collective) and Gonzalez-Minten duo (electro-acoustic composition and impro).
She performs in festivals such as the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, the Winterthurer Musikfestwochen, Klangspuren Schwaz, Mixtur Festival, zoom-in festival, Biennale Mediterraneo Archipelago, musica Strasbourg, Sonorities Festival Belfast and the Musikfestival Bern, where she's been leading and creating the sound walk inSENSé in 2022.
She took part in the summer academy of the Ensemble Modern Frankfurt 2021 (IEMA) and has been artist-in-residence at the Biennale Mediterraneo Archipelago in Palermo in 2022 and at the Microtonal Music Studio in Helsinki in 2023-24.

She received scholarships from Hirschmann Stiftung (2022), Fondation Nicati-de-Luze (2022-23) and the Ammann Falb Stipendium 2023. She is a Berlin Prize for Young Artists finalist in 2024.

Finally, she has worked with artists such as Eliane Radigue, Georg Friedrich Haas, Simon Steen-Andersen, Ilan Volkov, Emilio Pomarico, Egle Oddo, Jacques di Donato, Shizuyo Oka, Franziska Baumann, Frank Gratkowski, Joelle Léandre, Alexandra Grimal, Brian Archinal, Françoise Rivalland...