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Curriculum Vitae: Cécile Marti Born in Zurich, Swiss composer Cécile Marti developed a great passion for music at an early age thanks to the artistic environment within which she was raised. She learned how to play the piano and violin at the tender age of eight and discovered a fascination for contemporary music not long after. Cécile's first musical sketches began to appear while studying violin in Zurich. She decided to do a postgraduate study in composition, which led to a full-time study under the tutelage of Dieter Ammann at music school Lucerne. She graduated in the summer of 2008. She reached the Master in Music with Major Solo Performance Composition at music school Lucerne in 2010. She was working with Hanspeter Kyburz, Georg Friedrich Haas, Malcolm Singer and Kaija Saariaho. Since September 2012 she has been studying at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Julian Anderson at the degree course of a DMus. In 2008 Cécile Marti won the International Composition Competition for Orchestra at the 9th Weimar Spring Contemporary Music Days. She received an invitation in 2008 to the International Davos Festival "Young Artists in Concert". The awarded orchestral work „bubble trip“ was performed with Lucerne Symphony Orchestra (LSO) conducted by Kaspar Zehnder in KKL. The violin concert „AdoRatio“ was performed by Collegium Novum Zürich with the soloist Bettina Boller conducted by Michael Wendeberg at the Lucerne Festival 2010. Further performances followed at the Tonhalle Zürich Switzerland and at the festival for contemporary music Klangspuren Schwaz, Austria. At the beginning of 2012 her new orchestral work „wave trip“ was performed in Sondershausen and Nordhausen, Germany. Her most recent work, a piece for violin and piano, has been performed at the festival Musica Nova in Helsinki in 2015. She is currently working on an orchestral cycle of a duration of 80 minutes which will be premiered in Switzerland next spring 2016. Cécile Marti was chosen to receive the Werkjahr Zürich given in 2011, a yearly stipend granted by the city of Zürich. She was 2011/2012 an artist in residence in London for six month supported by the Landis&Gyr Foundation. She received fellowships from the Albert Koechlin-Stiftung in Lucerne and the Swiss National Foundation.