ballarte ensemble

(Madrid, 1996) Artist and researcher, her creative work focuses on questioning globalization, ecology, and human and non-human identities, through writing, performance, and sound installation and digital visual objects. In 2020, she graduated from the Master program in Art in the Contemporary World at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, and has collaborated as co-director of the platform and gallery Catalyst Arts, based in Belfast (2021); with Medialab-Prado (2019); and with the Instituto Cervantes Dublin (2021), where she exhibited her solo debut The Zone. In 2022, she co-created the artistic research project Transterile with Stefania Assandri. She has also curated the participation of the Spanish Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art Association (AMEE) in the first edition of the Listening Biennial (2021), and her theoretical and artistic work was featured in the latest edition of the IN-SONORA festival (2022) thanks to the support of CentroCentro (Madrid). She has participated in projects such as Collective Practices of Uncertainty (Rebecca Collins, July 2022), Party Studies (AMEE, ENSEMS Festival 2022), and since December 2022, she has been a member of the board of the Spanish Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art Association and the Research Group in Ecological Humanities (GHECO). Her written work has also been published in international media such as Critical Bastards Magazine and by the Instituto Cervantes, and she has participated in group exhibitions at the Goethe-Institut Ireland (2019, 2020), Ormstone House in Limerick (2020), and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (2020), among others.

I started in music playing the clarinet and listening to all kinds of music. Today I am a sound engineer and artistic director of musical recordings. I work with record labels and musicians for the production of albums (from baroque repertoire to contemporary music), as well as concert recordings. I especially enjoy accompanying projects and musicians with good understanding and a true spirit of collaboration.

Jaume Guri Batlle began his studies in Badalona with Marta García and continued at ESMUC with Vera Martínez. Currently, he is pursuing a Master’s in Performance with Rainer Schmidt, Barbara Doll, and Amandine Beyer in Basel.
He is a member of the “Bärhof Ensemble” and participates in festivals such as “Músics en residencia Alella,” “Barcelona Obertura,” “Festival de Torroella,” “Hohenstaufen Chamber Festival,” among others. He has studied chamber music with the Cuarteto Casals, Kennedy Moretti, and Anton Kernjak.
In 2018, he made his debut as a soloist at the Auditorio de Barcelona with the ESMUC orchestra, and in 2022 with the Kammerorchester Basel. A member of the JONC for ten years, he also collaborates with orchestras and ensembles such as “Gli Incogniti,” “Mahler Chamber Orchestra,” and “Musique des Lumières.” Since 2020, he has been collaborating with the Malpelo company.

Giulia Manfredini is a student of Baroque violin at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, studying under Leila Schayegh. Currently, she is pursuing a master’s degree in pedagogy. She was a student of Olivia Centurioni. Before focusing on historical performance, she trained as a violinist with Paolo Ardinghi and graduated with honors from the G. Verdi Conservatory of Turin, where she studied under Sergio Lamberto. She has attended masterclasses in Baroque violin with Rachel Podger and Pablo Valetti, among others, as well as masterclasses in modern violin with Pavel Vernikov, Alessandro Cappone, and Adrian Pinzaru.
Her piano trio, the Trío Isabel, was awarded at the Crescendo Prize in Florence and the Luigi Nono Competition. She has worked with ensembles such as La Cetra Barockorchester, Ensemble Il Profondo, Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, and Teatro Regio di Torino. Giulia has performed at festivals such as the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik and Freunde Alter Musik Basel. She regularly engages in teaching activities. As a violinist, she has collaborated on shows for Cirko Vertigo and recently participated in puppet theater performances with the duo L’Art du Temps.

Paula studies both baroque and modern violin at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague with Kati Debretzeni, Walter Reiter, and Theodora Geraets. She pursued two master’s degrees at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland, specializing in repertoire from the Renaissance to the Romantic period with Amandine Beyer, and in medieval vielle with Baptiste Romaine. As a member of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, she is regularly invited by numerous European ensembles such as the Netherlands Bach Society, the interdisciplinary group Geneva Camerata, and the ensemble Nereydas. Paula has performed as a chamber musician at various festivals across Europe, Asia, and America, and has conducted masterclasses at the National Conservatory of Jakarta (Indonesia) and the University of Mexico City. Additionally, she holds a degree in Art History from UNED and is currently specializing in the same university in a Master’s program on Heritage Conservation.

Harpist and soprano Mélina Perlein-Féliers, born in Lille, has felt a passion for the stage and performing arts since her childhood. She began her musical training as a child, learning harp, recorder, and clarinet, and eventually, singing. She studied literature and theater arts theory at university while also studying acting and singing at the Conservatoire de Lille. She then pursued stage design and costume design at the National School of Visual Arts La Cambre in Brussels before ultimately deciding on music, particularly early music and historical performance. She studied historical harps with Angélique Mauillon and Renaissance singing with Véronique Bourin at the Conservatoire de Tours, and entered the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in 2019.
During her Bachelor studies, she focused on historical harps with Heidrun Rosenzweig and singing with Katarina Livljanic. She continues her studies in baroque harp with Flora Papadopoulos and singing with Ulrike Hofbauer. As a basso continuo instrumentalist, she has performed with orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Halle under the direction of René Jacobs, and the Compagnie la Tempête. She plays and sings a repertoire spanning several centuries, from early medieval harp to Italian baroque harp, enjoying the resonance of gut strings as well as accompanying singers and instrumentalists as a continuo player, or the lush sound of ancient pedal harps. She is a founding member of the young medieval music ensemble Rubens Rosa.

Alba Segovia Ruiz (Madrid, 1996) is a lighting technician and designer. She holds a degree in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Madrid, specialising in Aesthetics and Art Theory (2021). Her initial interest in painting and the performing arts led her to discover lighting as her medium of expression and the central focus of her professional career.
She has participated in several theatre tours, including Viva la Pepa (2022–2024), Las que Gritan (2024–2025), and Clitemnestra (2024). She also collaborates regularly with the Ensemble Ballarte, a company with which she has designed and adapted works for different architectural spaces, such as Transhumancias (2025), presented in Basel (Switzerland). Her work also extends to the field of contemporary circus and projects by independent companies and creators.
She develops her practice from an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses theatre, dance, music, and circus arts.